Next up, I started Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould. This is a weird one, because his first novel was Jumper, about a boy who realized he could teleport at will, and he did a good job figuring out how that would work and what the consequences would be. Years later (after several other novels in between), he returned to the world of Jumper and wrote a sequel called Reflex (which wasn't as good, I thought). And then Hollywood got a hold of his works and fused the two into a movie called Jumper, which apparently took ideas from both books but was was way different. And then Steven Gould decided to write a novel that was based on the movie, so this is kind of a novelization of the movie which was based on his earlier works. I never saw the movie but at only a couple chapters in I can see this is way different than the original novels. I'm not expecting much, because I read Gould's first three novels and experienced diminishing returns with each (I still think his best novel was his first; the next two subsequent ones I enjoyed a little less than the previous ones), but I'm interested in seeing just how different this setup is.
Johnathan