The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind (The Frost Files: Book 1) by Jackson Ford

"As the title says, Teagan Frost is the girl who can move sh*t with her mind and though her life is interesting enough, a situation unfolds that puts her and everyone around her in extreme danger and she has to move fast to try and clear her name."

3 Stars

Pros: Teagan was an honest and heartfelt narrator. Her growth as a character was well paced and the story evolved well.

Cons: After awhile the slang of how everyone talked with "aight", "yo, we tight" etc, got tiresome. I know people do talk like that and Ford was just trying to make the characters more relatable but, it started grating on the nerves after awhile.

Full Review:

Teagan Frost, who was born Emily Jameson, to two geneticist parents, has been able to move things with her mind since birth. She had two older siblings, twins, Adam and Chloe, who were also gifted. Chloe could see on all levels of the spectrum and Adam did not need to sleep, though that would have disastrous consequences in the end.

Teagan has been living in Los Angeles ever since she was rescued from a government facility in Waco Texas where they were testing her "gift." Moira Tanner, a former Marine knew of Teagan's existence and gave her the opportunity to get out of the government facility and work for her "team." Their front is the China Shop Moving Company, but what they really do is hack information on people and send it back to Tanner and her team.

Everyone who works at China Shop has a past, a record, or is fleeing from situations they would rather not return to. At first, Teagan is only friendly with one of her team mates, Carlos, but as the book progresses and the situation becomes more and more insane, she finds that she's grown closer to her team mates and would do anything for them. The book was tough at parts because, like Teagan, though you wanted to hate certain people for what they did, you couldn't. And in the end, she's left wondering, but it leads to an interesting cliff hanger and I'll most likely be looking for the sequel when the time comes.

Overall it was an enjoyable, not necessarily intelligent, but fun and catching book. You were intrigued as to how Teagan could have ended up in this situation, why people are suddenly dying, why it looks like someone else has the ability to move things with their mind etc. There are lots of questions right off the bat and Ford is great at pacing the story well enough that you eventually find out most of the answer, but he makes you work for it.

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