Secondary character development was minuscule and one dimensional, and relationships that actually seemed interesting at the start of the book, like Amy’s dynamic with her mother, were discarded halfway through in favor of a lackluster romance and lazy writing. I take major issue with the main character and primary narrator, Amy, who has a shockingly stupid voice for someone who purportedly reads so much. They clung to me and whispered to me how life should and shouldn’t be.”īut a few genuine ideas and nice moments of writing aside, The Book Jumper was pretty terrible. “Stories about heroes, stories about people who were exactly the opposite. Instead, all book characters are more like actors in a play their roles within the stories do not define them, and when their “scenes” end, they often have completely different personalities from those they embody in their books. For example, I really liked how the book characters that we typically think of as villains, like Shere Khan of The Jungle Book, aren’t actually bad in The Book Jumper. While most of this book is trash, in my humble opinion, Gläser did hit a few high notes. It reeks of teeny-bopper-ness, but I couldn’t resist the allure of a story that is based on the dream of pretty much every serious book lover: to somehow enter and experience the stories we read. Let’s be honest for a minute here: I didn’t have very high hopes for this book. It’s been a long time since I rated a novel with only one star, but The Book Jumper is about to join those not-so-hallowed halls. Teaming up with fellow book jumper Will, Amy vows to get to the bottom of the thefts – at whatever cost.” As thrilling as Amy’s new power is, it also brings danger: someone is stealing from the books she visits, and that person may be after her life. Amy learns that she is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and interact with the world inside.

Amy’s grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox House – but not in the usual way. And then they came pattering down like raindrops: a shower of words raining down on me.”īook Jacket Synopsis: “Amy Lennox doesn’t quite know what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to Lennox House, her mother’s childhood home on the island of Stormsay. “Words flexed and twisted apart to form bushes and foliage.

The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser