Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she’s got telekinetic powers – a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she’s normal for once.

But then a body turns up at the site of her last job – murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She’s got 22 hours to clear her name – and it’s not just her life at stake. If she can’t unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that’s on the brink of exploding….

This was fun but flawed. I loved the energy and the humour and the action scenes and even grew to like the main character, Teagan Frost, but the pacing sometimes needed to be tighter and the ending went on for too long, mostly to set up the next book in the series (which I probably won’t be reading, at least not this year).

It would make a wonderful movie or even a TV series where I’m sure the pace would be tightened and there would be a little more discipline in the storytelling. But hey, maybe I’m just too conventional to value the chaotic energy of this book.

I loved the start. What’s not to like about an attempted covert penetration of a secure facility that ends with Teagan Frost, and her teammate jumping off the eighty-second floor of an under-construction skyscraper with nothing between them and the ground but an office chair and Teagan’s hope that she has enough power not to turn both of them into pavement pizza?

I liked the way the way Teagan Frost developed, slowly waking up to how much trouble she’s in and how few people she can trust. I mostly liked her humour and even when it annoyed me it served to increase my empathy for her teammates.

The plot was clever enough to throw me a few curves, some of which were telegraphed and some caught me by surprise. In the end, the mystery and its resolution did make sense although most of the energy and the fun of the book is in the frenetic action that follows when Teagan is told that she has 22 hours to sort everything out or she’ll be disappeared by her own side. (I know, you’d think that would be 24 hours right? Like in movies? But that just shows how tough Teagan’s boss is).

If you’re looking for fresh, frantic and fun entertainment then ‘The Girl Who Could Move Shit With Here Mind‘ is worth listening to.

I recommend the audiobook version. I thought Lauren Patten did a great job in getting across Teagan’s cocky but sometimes misplaced swagger and Graham Haldstead adds a creep factor as the guy we know is important to the plot but we don’t know why. Click on the SoundCloud link below to get a feel for the book.