Review by Booklist Review
Psychokinetic Teagan Frost is back in this sequel to The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind (2019). Teagan's world is rocked, literally, when a series of massive earthquakes brings Southern California to its knees. She'd been contemplating a move away from her career as a super-secret government operative, but with widespread damage, death, and injury, she has no choice but to pitch in with the relief efforts. At the same time, a precocious four-year-old named Matthew travels the West Coast with his fearful mother, Amber. Matthew grew up in a mysterious institution called the School, and he's exploring his own unusual, sinister powers. Once Teagan and her colleagues discover that Matthew is behind the quakes, they must race to find him before he strikes again. This smart, action-packed novel is tighter than its predecessor, and Ford injects just enough exposition that new readers will be able to pick up here. Teagan's bright wit offsets the darker moments, and a curious cliff-hanger ensures that readers will be back for the next entry.
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Ford delivers a fantastic follow-up to The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind with this tale of earthquakes, superpowers, and culinary ambition. Teagan Frost has almost gotten her life together. She's inching closer to her dream of becoming a chef, her day job as a psychokinetic operative for the government is going smoothly, and she's on the brink of a relationship with her crush, lawyer Nic Delacourt. But their first date is interrupted when, elsewhere in California, four-year-old prodigy Matthew Schenke uses his budding ability to control the Earth to trigger an earthquake along the San Andreas Fault. As Matthew's mother, Amber, rapidly loses control of her son, Matthew goes mad with power, aiming to sink the entire West Coast. It's up to Teagan to stop him. Alternating chapters from the perspectives of Teagan, Matthew, and Amber, the narrative maintains a casual, comic tone even in its most stressful moments. Readers who enjoyed Teagan's first brush with disaster will be thrilled to see her pushed beyond her limits in this winning sequel. (June)
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
A small team of misfits is the only thing standing between the West Coast and a very unnatural disaster. Until the earthquake hit, Teagan's biggest problem had been burning the paella she made for Nic, the crush who turned her down when he found out she was psychokinetic and worked for a secret government agency. But the earthquake is The Big One, and the damage is severe. What's worse, what nobody knows except for Amber, a desperate mom on the run, is that her hyperintelligent, superpowered 4-year-old, Matthew, triggered it on purpose. And loved it. Teagan thinks her next mission is to steal a list of American spies back from Jonas Schmidt, a distractingly handsome tech billionaire who's planning to sell it, but no sooner has that mission gone completely sideways than Matthew learns a lot more about fault lines--and starts looking for ways to put that knowledge to work. Soon, Teagan and her team are racing to find Matthew before he can do even more damage...which leaves very little time for worrying about the terrible things Nic said to her when she refused to use her powers in public. Or wondering who gave Matthew his powers, and why. This second book about psychokinetic superspy Teagan is even more suspenseful than The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind (2019). The stakes couldn't be higher. The damage Matthew can cause is made all too real on the page, and, with his breathtaking abilities and mercurial moods, he makes a chillingly dangerous villain. The suspense, the danger, and the rocket-fueled pace are all turned up to 11 in this more-than-satisfying sequel. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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