Fun, action-packed, funny, and engaging from start to finish. A great start to a new series. Definitely recommended.

Teagen has an Amazon ability to not any non carbon thing with her mind. Of course she works for the government bit what happens when her bosses think she killed someone? ARC from NetGalley.

A cute fantasy story, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind was a delightful read.

Synopsis:
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 24 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 . . .

Received a digital ARC of this book via NetGalley.

The title and description were what initially grabbed my attention. However, this book wasn’t really for me. This felt like 3 different stories rolled really fast into one. I really liked the pk scenes and the cop chases. But other than that it could have been fleshed out better so all the side plots would fit together better. Just saw it is now a series. Not sure if I will follow it through.

You know, it’s funny, how when altered humans are engineered the people doing it never really stop to think how the person they’re doing it to will feel. Teagan’s character reminded me a little bit of Liv Moore from iZombie. Teagan’s love for the city she was finally “free” to explore is hard to put into words – the various descriptions of LA through her eyes are hilarious, heart-wrenching, and beautiful. I didn’t really think that the book plot (or Teagan) was better served by a romantic interest and Teagan’s response at the end was… something. The characters are well rounded with their own individual stories – there’s only one who lacked in background information (of the China Shop crew), Paul. The character that I want to know more about is Africa – he seems like such an interesting person.

I loved the misfit camaraderie of the China Shop crew. I enjoyed the black ops government missions that have a customary smart-ass. Teagan is funny – she’s just not Deadpool level funny. The second POV was intermittent and slightly frustrating. My wish would be the choice between additional chapters to bring them fully into the story or to eliminate their POV chapters. There were several unexpected twists and turns in the plot and I’m looking forward to reading the sequel to see how they pan out.
I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy superheroes, comics, science fiction, suspense/mystery titles. A big thank you to Orbit Books for the opportunity to read this quirky and often hilarious book – all opinions are my own.

I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy superheroes, comics, science fiction, suspense/mystery titles. A big thank you to Orbit Books for the opportunity to read this quirky and often hilarious book – all opinions are my own.

Jackson Ford's irreverent story The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind is as fun as the title suggests. Seriously, I laughed out loud a few times. My favorite protagonist type is snarky. I enjoy a good bit of snark and a well-placed quip. I also enjoy it when people lose their shit and are fed up with your antics, which is Teagan, in a nutshell. Teagan is a woman, put in ridiculous situation after ridiculous situation over 22 hours. Oh, she is also The Girl Who Can Move Sh*t With Her Mind. So the jobs she deals within this novel are... a bit out of the ordinary.
In the first chapter of the book Teagan is plummeting from the top of a skyscraper; she has ten seconds to live. Her Day gets worse from there.

Teagan is like most young women living in Los Angeles. She works a job she puts up with and has weird semi-sorta friendships with those she works. She also has an overbearing boss and big dreams.

All of these things are factually true.

Except that Teagan works for a clandestine operation founded by the government that uses her abilities, namely moving sh*t with her mind, to acquire information and stick it to the bad guys. Whomever the current bad guy is, though she never kills anyone. It is nothing like that, and she tries to do as much good as she can.

Her weird relationships are with her coworkers, who have almost as strange backstories as she does. And her boss is a terrifying governmental agent and will put her in a cage if Teagan steps out of line. A literal cage. But she does have the big dreams of owning a restaurant and eating the best food. As you can probably tell, Teagan is a cool character. Very much an average person except for that one small thing. A long time ago, Teagan got tinkered with. Something extraordinary happened; she acquired the ability to move items with her mind. Nothing huge, she isn't moving buildings. But up to three hundred pounds and ten feet from her, Teagan can reach out and grasp inorganic objects with her mind. How or why is not important, she just can. She is an X-Men character who drinks a lot of coffee and swears a lot.

"Superheroes in comics and in movies pull off that secret-identity shit all the time. But this isn't a movie, or a comic, and I am definitely not a superhero. Secret Identity? I can barely pull of the identity that I have. I won't do that to Nic. I won't put him in that situation."

As I mentioned, the story starts with a plummet off of a very tall building with a screaming coworker in her arms. Things have gone pear-shaped very quickly on a job, and the only thing Teagan could think to do was to throw them off the 82nd floor of a building and hope for the best. Her teammate has agoraphobia; this does not engender team unity between them. Most of her team considers her a strange liability. Especially the woman who is screaming in Teagan's arms because she believes she is about to die.

They survive.

But later, while Teagan is out getting some most excellent takeout, a dead body is found with a piece of rebar wrapped neatly around his neck. Using her powers in such a way is verboten. The murderer would have to be a person with telekinesis, and Teagan is the only person who has that? Right? Well, Teagan has 22 hours to find out who did it and prove her innocence, or it is back to government labs in Waco, Texas, for the rest of her days.

"The state hadn't helped. The state - states plural, actually simply didn't care. He was bounced from office to office, and the trail ran cold within weeks."

There is a compelling sense of urgency in this novel. 22 Hours feels like we are living Teagan's experiences in real-time. That sense of urgency drives the plot beats from one moment to the next. It also causes Teagan to make poor choices because, at this point, Teagan is a woman at the end of her rope. She is out of telekinetic juice, out of coffee, and out of time.

This story is told from the perspective of two people, mostly alternating chapter by chapter. We have Teagan, the main protagonist, and a harried good guy, and then we have Jake, the antagonist. Jake is, in most ways, a complete opposite of Teagan. They have similar backstories. Teagan was orphaned in her teens and was picked up by a government agency who then experimented on her for five years. Jake has power but never showed anyone. He was also orphaned, but at a much younger age. He bounced from home to home in the system until he aged out, stole a car, and left.

Where Teagan has kindness in her heart, Jake feels damaged. It is sad in a way. It feels like Jake could have been a good person, had the circumstances been different, but he is missing that moral core that guides good choices. We occasionally see it when he questions his own decisions, "Wait I don't want to kill anyone..." But he pushes through that in a singular focus on his goals. In that, I liked that Jake wasn't a cookie-cutter character. He had more dimension to him than the typical bad guy. Their two stories swirl around each other for most of the book—their actions directly affecting each other, but never quite meeting until the story unfolds.

Some of the best parts of this novel are the interactions that Teagan has with her coworkers. As much as the 22-hour time limit affects Teagan's future, it also very much affects the team as a whole. Her choices, and the information that she can find directly influences the rest of the coworkers' lives. This incentivizes them to help her as much as possible, even if she annoys the hell out of them. It isn't just Teagan who has a wild ride over the next 22-hours, it is Paul, Carlos, Annie, and Reggie who are going along with her.

"...They tased me. After that they got smarter. Kept me dosed."

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind is fun and silly. Teagan makes stupid choices and shows her naivete, but damn, is this an engaging story. Teagan's revelations over the 22 hours allowed her character to expand and be a bit more than just action. This growth is an essential and wise choice on the part of Jackson Ford. It made this story more than action and wise-cracking. It gave it some heart, some sorrow, and a little pluck.

This is the perfect kind of book to kick back with after a long day and enjoy it. I highly recommend this because we readers want some psychokinesis fun and to cheer a character on. Teagan kicked a lot of ass, even when she was getting her ass kicked, and I am looking forward to the next book.

Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to read this ARC prior to the book's publication, and we did not end up buying it for our library collection.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing me an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Teagan Frost is just your typical girl, if your typical girl is psychokinetic....and a spy....sort of. She has always been able to move sh*t with her mind, and that's gotten her under the watchful eye of the rag tag crew at China Shop Movers(a legit business, with a website!). Only this is a business within a business. China Shop also follows up on threats to the US that are deemed looking into by the government. All is well and good, until a body is discovered at their last job killed in only a way that someone like Teagan could have accomplished. This is impossible, seeing as how Teagan is the only person whom has this psychokinetic ability....or is she? With less than 24 hours she must prove her innocence or be shipped to some government warehouse to be dissected to find what makes her so special.

This book is a triumph from start to finish where Teagan is concerned. She is a super fun and likable character who you can't help but rooting for. Her crew at China Shop are all interesting characters who can hold their own not only in a fight, but in a chapter centered on them. I stayed interested in all of those around Teagan and what she was dealing with.

My one gripe(and it's a big enough one to subtract a star) is that this story is told from two points of view. Teagan, and a separate character named Jake. The best way to explain Jake is to call him our story's villain, but I find all his chapters to be very flat and disruptive to the story I was enjoying. Luckily, his chapters are few and far between, but it was a little jarring and irritating when all I really cared about was learning more about what was happening with Teagan and her gang. Jake is important to the story, but I wish the author had done a bit more with him.

Overall, this was a great story and I will definitely be pre-ordering the sequel. This story is fun, quirky, fast paced, and just vulgar enough without distracting from the story. Pick up a copy today and become immersed into this fun world where the characters are as fun as the sh*t flying through the air.

I am a member of the American Library Association Reading List Award Committee. This title was suggested for the 2020 list. It was not nominated for the award. The complete list of winners and shortlisted titles is at <a href="https://rusaupdate.org/2020/01/2020-reading-list-years-best-in-genre-fiction-for-adult-readers/">

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind grabbed my attention immediately with it’s title. It’s a fast-paced story following a girl named Teagan, who has telekinetic powers and works for the government doing secret missions to find out information. Teagan is framed for a murder that is done in a way that only someone with Teagan’s powers could have pulled off. She has 24 hours to prove her innocence.
This book is full of humour with sassy Teagan and her commentary, but I felt like it came off as too immature at times. I felt like Teagan was too unlikeable of a character for me. The other characters in her team were also abrasive for me. I don’t know if it was poor character development, or intentional, but I found my attention drifting away from the story at times because I didn’t really care about the characters. The story also seemingly dragged on for too long. If it was 300 pages instead of 486, I feel like it could’ve been told in a better way.
Overall, this book was full of cheesy humor, but I felt like it could have been soo much more.
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

I liked the concept and plot but felt overall disconnected with the characters. There is a lot of humour and wit (just like the title implies) in Jackson Ford's first book of a new series called Frost Files. However it often felt like the humour was just covering up for poor character development. Jackson Ford does, however, start off very fast in the plot department. Let's get into some details:

Leading Gal
The female main character, whom the story is told through, is a bitter sarcastic, and relatively funny 22 year old. The reader is immediately given the impression that this chick is not happy about her plight in life, her 'superpower' or the current situation she finds herself in. But she's clearly quick thinking on her feet and with her wit.
To give you an idea however of why this gal feels so shallow this is one of the opening lines of her thoughts:
"...a face that still gets her ID’d at the liquor store. Even though I’ve been able to buy my own drinks like a big girl for a whole year now."
Sure being ID'd is annoying. But if you're only one year over the age limit I don't think you get to complain. I'm 37 and in all seriousness am constantly ID'd. Both my husband and I look about 10 years younger (or more) than we are. I'd kill to have only been ID'd for one year after I turned 18 (legal age in my province). So from the get-go I knew that this was going to be a typical Millennial girl that would annoy me. And I was right.
I should mention here that there is another POV in this story but it was so lackluster that I didn't really key in on any of its moments. This book is really all about our leading gal with the power to move stuff.

Humour
Thankfully our girl who can move sh*t with her mind is capable of being fairly amusing. This line in particular had me imaging all kinds of things:
"The only thing worse than splatting onto the sidewalk would be doing it naked."
Seems fair and true! (lol) The other characters around our lead gal are equally amusing and sarcastic. Without this wit I don't think I'd have lasted. The plot is good, a bit weak in places but overall acceptable, and the concept and 'power' given to our gal is fine; but without the amusement these characters would appear as cardboard as they are unfortunately.

Plot
There is a fair bit of plot and happenings, as one would expect, when you get into a science fiction novel like Ford has provided us. The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind has the typical super power troupes you expect like having: conspiracies, destroyed childhoods, dependencies on the bad guy and the like. Take TV Shows like: The Gifted, Supergirl, Smallville, every spy show ever, and even a splash of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and you've basically got the premise of this novel. That's okay with me I expect troupes when I read very genre geared novels and so it didn't bother me too much. The one thing I would argue is there isn't an X-Files feel here for me. This book lacks the depth X-Files had.

Overall
The saving grace of Ford's first installment, in the series Frost Files, is that the ending is strong. It's engaging and didn't feel cheap. It wasn't an 'ah-ha' or 'oh wow' moment like I prefer; but it's plausible, believable and moved me to want to read the next book.
For me a three star book isn't bad but isn't good. It's just meh. I wouldn't convince anyone to read it, or recommend it necessarily, but if someone asked me about it and was interested I wouldn't convince them to find a different novel to pick-up. My hope here is that book 2 improves and our characters are less cardboard and more flesh and bone.

Please note: I received an eARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. This is an honest and unbiased review.

The book opens with the Teagan Frost throwing herself and her companion, Annie Cruz out the window off the 82nd floor of a skyscraper. No parachute either! But, Teagan is a psychokinetic - i.e. she can move objects, inorganic objects, with her mind. So they survive the fall, bruised and battered and get picked up and hightail it back to their office. Teagan and Annie are black operators for a government organization in Los Angeles tasked with finding information on designated individuals. Everything seems fine until early the next morning when Teagan gets woken up and has to prove that she did not kill someone using her powers at the skyscraper the previous evening. Her world has upended. She is not the only one with PK. Now she has 22 hours to prove it. And the storyline keeps moving at breakneck speed until the end which has a very interesting twist that may get explained in a sequel. If you like action, and can work with your mind being twisted into a pretzel following the plot, read this book and enjoy the ride!

I was provided with an ARC of this title from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book about a girl that uses her telekinetic powers to carry off epic heists. It's an action novel, a dive into the underbelly of a fascinating criminal world, and a rich character study. Like many other readers, I was intrigued by the title.

I was not disappointed. The heroine, Teagan, is irreverent, audacious and sarcastic. She is unapologetic about how she makes her way in the world, but refuses to be pigeonholed and persecuted for a crime she didn't commit. She has her skills and a rapidly collapsing window of time to clear her name. The way she embarks on what everyone else tells her is a futile endeavor is remarkable, and her resilience and resourcefulness impress the reader so much she leaps from the pages, crouched and ready to fight.

This is a fantastic read that defies genres. Recommended for fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.

Interesting premise about a girl who can - you guessed it- move sh*t with her mind. There's intrigue and espionage sprinkled with romance and murder. The main character is a regular bad ass that will join the ranks of favorite novel heroines everywhere. Diverse characters which Ford gives them time to shine and grow throughout the novel. Occasionally the writing isn't descriptive enough of what is happening and there's A LOT happening. Ended on a bit of cliffhanger, which means a sequel is on the horizon.

Teagan Frost longs to be normal, but it's hard to do that when you have telekinetic powers and the government knows about it and makes good use of you. However, when a murder mystery occurs that only someone like Teagan could commit, she tries to clear her name and prove her innocence all while an epic battle is brewing.

I enjoyed this book and I can tell that it will become a series. Though it will be a series, this book had enough action to be a standalone book. I look forward to learning more about the characters and Teagan's powers.

A very interesting science fiction premise that I was very intrigued by when I requested it.

I felt that the story was a bit rushed and some things did not really add up. The relationships between characters seemed a bit forced maybe. I feel like I would not continue this if it does become a series.

2/5

This was a fun, light adventure about a group of secret agents where one has a superpower.The ending felt a bit rushed and character development was also a bit rushed. This is clearly part of a series, but the first book is complete in and of itself. Relationships developed a little too quickly and the whole reason behind the bad guy just seemed underdeveloped. Still, overall a fun book. I liked the main character’s point of view and the author did well differentiating the different voices.

The Girl Who Could Move Sht with Her Mind is a fairly original science fiction about, well, exactly what it sounds like: a girl with the power to move object with her mind. It doesn't work on organic matter, such as people or animals, but pretty much everything else is fair game. The story is very fast-paced, but is scattered and not always cohesive.

Based on the title alone I kind of knew this book would a fun read and I'm glad I was right! Teagan is a very cool heroine with the powers to move stuff with her mind, but sadly she's stuck using her powers for the government. The side characters are all funny and definetly have a place in this ragtag crew! A very differenta nd unexpected read that I quite enjoyed!
Thanks as always to NetGalley and the published for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review! :)

Sometimes, you just have to read a book based on the title alone. I mean, what's not to love about a book titled The Girl Who Could Move Shit with Her Mind? The story is equally snarky, and I enjoyed every minute of it. There are moments of earnestness and true darkness, as well as the requisite danger one needs in a thriller. The thing is that it never takes itself too seriously as a novel, which makes it that much more entertaining a story. This is escapist reading at its finest, especially as it is unapologetic in serving that purpose. I don't know who Jackson Ford really is, but I certainly hope he or she publishes more in this vein because it is so much fun.