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This is a superbly clever book. This is a riveting adventure of epic proportions. This is a disturbing future. This is Jump, the first book of Sean Williams' Twinmaker series.Instant gratification. That's the premise if this book. You can instantly transport yourself anywhere in the world. You can fabricate anything you want immediately through a "fabber". It's fun, it's free, and it sounds amazing. But if people are taken apart and put back together at their destination, how do we determine if
See more reviews at YA Midnight ReadsThank you Allen and Unwin Australia for sending me this copy. No compensation was given or taken to alter this review. I see that Jump (or Twinmaker) will have a large range of strong opinions. Strangely, I was not one who had a strong opinion, whether negative or positive. I would be lying to say that this book is completely flawed, but I also would be to say that Jump was perfect. What Worked: I really liked the idea of Sean William's world. Clair lives in
I received this copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence my review in any way.There is nothing better than a strong female character in teen literature. It seemed for a while every book I read had a wimpy, indecisive female character unable to do anything for herself. Clare, the heroine of our story here, is nothing of the sort. She is level-headed, practical and smart. She knows how to respond quickly to a situation and do what's right and what's necessar...
I have picked up this book to read it about five to six times. I only read a little at a time. I finally had to put the book down at page 134. This is a great feat in its self. I so wanted to like this book more than I did. It just jumped around too much without much explanation. It would have helped if the world that Clair and Libby were living in was described in details better. In fact, I did not realize that this story was more on the futuristic side. Not that I minded but with these types o...
This might be two and a half stars, but I'm rounding down because the first 90 or so pages could have been cut out with very little lost from the story. Everything about the beginning of this book felt like an obvious set up, like a paint by numbers kind of thing. There were some action sequences I genuinely enjoyed, but I needed substantially more from the world building and also from character development, which would have been a better way to spend the first bit of this book. Overall, this ju...
Teleportation, cloning, body snatchers, government conspiracies and themes of identity and self image - Sean Williams explores all that and more in his first YA novel, Twinmaker. It's a great, intellectually stimulating Science Fiction thriller, and one that is sure to appeal to teens and adults alike. Twinmaker offers an action-packed, dramatic and twisty ride. With every page turned, you learn something new - often disturbing or shocking - about the world and the technology that rules it. An
I tried to get into this one but struggled the entire time. The idea was interesting but I did not care for a single character. (view spoiler)[ The MC cheats with her best friend's boyfriend. This really was a strike against her and him. Just ugh (hide spoiler)]Then I got to this line,"Hell yes, you are fine as limes, girl." I just can't go further.
So far in 2019, I've been in a bit of a reading slump. I definitely have not read as much as I usually do. The things that I have read have been just okay. I've been averaging a lot of three star reads. Recently, I remembered that I have the Twinmaker trilogy on my tbr, and decided to try the first book to see if it would get me out of my reading slump. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it at all. I found the first book in the trilogy, Twinmaker, to be confusing. The book doesn't have much world bui...
This book is based on a theme that centers on the ethical and moral uses of technology, an interesting debate---unfortunately, it does so at the expense of an actual plot and compelling characters. This book is all action and no suspense. It is far, far too long for what it has to offer. I was ready to give it up at 30%, but I clung on in the hopes of something happening that would capture my attention.I hoped in vain.This book is very, very much action-based, and not much else. Despite all the
When I started out with this book, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. It seemed to lean a bit heavily on the young adult plot with the love triangle aspect and the whole wanting to be Internet famous subplot. But it turned out those were just there to introduce the reader to the world and provide some stakes for our main character. The book quickly becomes a techno-thriller that can stand up there with the adult techno-thrillers I've enjoyed in the past. In fact, the reason for my fast pac...
Review and more at https://edwardsghostengine.wordpress....2.5 starsThis one was really strange.... good original ideas though just executed poorly.I started this book optimistic and looking forward to finding out more about the conspiracies of this world and its technology. There was a lot of potential here. Instead what I got was a bland as fuck main character (and all the others to be honest) and hardly any world building.“High-stakes action combines with issues of friendship and body image i...
3.5 Twinmaker is a high action science fiction that kept me guessing. I was pretty confused at the beginning, but the mystery sucked me in despite not really understanding the technology and terminology. I figured it out pretty much as I went along, I just didn't get what exactly led society to these measures, and while there seemed to be science behind most of it, I didn't really get the hows and whys. Never the less, I still enjoyed and I liked the characters, and wanted to know what would ha...
Jump, called Twinmaker in the US, is Sean Williams’ foray into teen science fiction, he’s well known as a NY Times bestselling novelist of adult scifi and he’s also done a great children's series in conjunction with another Australian author Garth Nix - Troubletwisters.In the world of Jump we have solved our environmental and power problems, we can teleport from anywhere on the face of the planet to anywhere else there is a D-mat booth. We can fabricate and recycle the goods that we need. It’s a...
Unless I read the blurb to Twinmaker completely wrong, I really was expecting something different entirely from Twinmaker. This whole idea of improvement and of potentially being able to do this by a few swift jumps I found highly intriguing and the whole jumping aspect of being able to go wherever you’d imagined in a few minutes was a concept I liked (remember the film Jumper everyone?) But for me Twinmaker took far too long to get things rolling. Clair and Libby both used the D-mat to get from...
3.5 starsThis ARC was given to me through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.So in the future there's this thing called the D-mat. Think: Star Trek Teleporter. Beam me up, Scotty!Almost everyone all over the world uses it to travel anywhere they want to all across the globe. So if you live in Denver you can go to school or work in Amsterdam. Very cool, right? I say almost everyone uses it, because there is (of course) a group of granola crunchers (Abstainers) who refuse to step inside th...
http://abooktopia.weebly.com Twinmaker: Jump is a high action packed science fiction that will remind you that not everything is what it seems... – Abooktopia Clair lives in a world revolutionised by d-mat, a global teleport system that allows you to transport yourself anywhere across the world simultaneously. When a new meme known as improvement surfaces, the tables start to turn. You write a code on a piece of paper and list all the things you’d like to have changed, and take the note with
I'm not really a big Sci-Fi reader, but Twinmaker is probably one of the best YA Sci-Fi books that I've read in a long time. At first, I wasn't so sure I would like it (and worse, feared there may be some slut shaming coming my way), but I was surprised.The characters are likable, particularly the main character, Clair (though for some reason I really don't like the spelling of that). Jesse and "Q" were also great characters. I didn't love the rest of the cast, but I found them likable enough. C...
I'm dropping this at 7% complete. There's no loyalty with the best friend, there's cheating, probable girl hate, I bet slut shaming (no idea yet though), and I'm just not feeling it. There might be a day I come back to it, but I'm thinking it unlikely.
The world is set into the future and what a future it is. People travel on d-mats, eliminating the entire transportation industry. And with high-tech technology there comes a price. Clair stumbles upon the WHOLE who are known to her as terrorists. Once her best friend Libby gets sucked into their Improvement program, that's when she realizes her world is a sham and the people who claim to protect her, are the very people who also want to kill her.I find the storyline to jump all over the place w...
I requested this book at the last minute from Edelweiss, because I had recently been auto-approved for Balzar + Bray and I had heard a couple of people rave about this one. Of course, I had to stick my nose in and find out what all the hype was about. Since finishing this book, I still have no idea how to answer my initial question. Why do people love this so much? I found Twinmaker very boring right from the word starting point. I tried to give it a chance, but by the time I was 10% of the way