This is my second installment of reading books which inspired some of my favorite movies. I really enjoyed this book, even more then the movie. I think if Hollywood would have stuck with some of the original plot lines in the book, they may have had a better chance at a sequel.
Davy is from a broken home. His mother left when he was twelve and his father drank then beat him. This first time Davy "jumped" was right before his father was going to beat him with his belt, the buckle side. He landed in the local library, one of his favorite hang outs and the only place he feels safe. In the beginning, the plot pretty much stays the same as the movie, however, he is not best friends with a girl from school, he doesn't fall into a river and then jump causing everyone to think he's dead. He does run away to New York where he does actually rob a bank.
It gets weirder though, in the movie he can jump to places he's never been if he just looks at a picture but the book tells us that isn't the case. Davy has to actually have been to the place he is jumping first, in order to have a sensory memory of it that allows him to jump back there later. He meets a girl in New York, Millie, who is actually from Oklahoma. They hit it off and he later tells her that he can teleport. He starts to look for his mom but doesn't know where to start, so he goes to his grandfather's house in Florida. No luck, grandpa died several years ago, but a family attorney points him in the right direction. His mom contacts him in New York and they have a great day together before she flies out on a business trip. Unfortunately, the flight is hijacked and his mom has a bomb strapped to her. She doesn't make it. Davy watches it all happen without being able to do anything. He makes it his mission to find the terrorists responsible for the hijacking and take revenge on them.
There is so much to this story that I could go on and on, but you really should read it for yourself. I love how Steven Gould implies that teleportation is a plausible human function and not just a sci-fi, futuristic, unachievable goal. This books get a 5 out of 5, READ IT!
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