“Runaway!! Runaway!! terrible book! Hollow main character and supporting cast. The only thing sci-fi about this title is the word teleportation, the rest is a story about an abused juvinle runnaway who happens to have the ability to teleport.In no way or how is this ability explained, the character barely investigates it himself. A finger under the chin "am I the only one??", ridiculas.I came to this book in a backwards manor, by watching the movie (flawed but survivable). The back story given in the movie is of the boy who can jump/teleport, who stumbles into others who can do the same, yet they are hunted by a nefarious group called the paladins, a century upon century old war. Little is explained of the motive of the paladins, nor is there any voyage of discovery onto how they can teleport.I went to the book liking this back story, it had promise, and hopes, that in almost all cases the book is better than the movie, NAY I SAY, CRY FOUL!!The book is linear, predictable, limited. The teleport ability is dumbed down as a toy/escape mechanism for the lead character. The author allows the character to do things in an oversimplistic way (even limits him in his travels), as well as oversimplifies the sitations he gets into, with oversimple solutions.Avoid this, hope they make a sequel, that maybe explores the how and why so we can gets some depth on these characters, and let the war begin.I understand that the author wrote addtions to the book, which after reading the reviews dont appear to really be much better.Avot it!!”
