Scott Westerfeld

Ethan (A.K.A. Scam) has a way with words. When he opens his mouth, whatever he wants you to hear is what comes out next. But Ethan isn't just a smooth talker. He has an actual power--an ability to say things he doesn't even consciously know. Pick up a cute girl? His voice will tell her everything he loved about her favorite singer's most obscure recording. Looking for a ride home? His voice references a mutual friend to a stranger. Sometimes the voice helps, but sometimes it hurts--like when that stranger ends up being on the way to a drug deal and Ethan's lies bring him into a massive mess culminating in a bank robbery gone wrong. So Ethan needs rescue, stat.

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Sarah Sammis

The really short chapters, constantly switching between characters got tiresome.

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Audrey Lord

jess

Ooh Scott Westerfeld's books are always quite good. Nothing particularly special, though. Flicker wasn't well-written; the whole "disability is rendered moot by special powers" doesn't jive with me. Crash was an interesting character, but not super fleshed out - which was the fault of most characters. Too many of them. The one character that stood out to me was Anon. (HOW IRONIC.) The plot wasn't particularly special, either. But it was enjoyable!

Jeni Enjaian

The premise of this book holds a lot of potential. The idea of people with power, powers with consequences, is brilliant. Too often superheroes simply get added abilities without thought as to consequences from those powers. This is this books one flash of brilliance. Unfortunately, in my opinion, that's where it stayed. First, it took me quite a while to get into the book and to start caring about what happened to the individual characters. Second, the authors indulge in quite a bit of gratuitous language. There's simply no need for it. The English language holds so many beautiful and appropriate words, way too many to make crass language at any point necessary. 
For those two reasons, primarily, I have no interest in reading the other books in the series. I don't even know if the subsequent books have been published.

 Bruna Acioly Leão

This book was so cute and fun!

At first I was a little scared because there were all these different POVs and it the first feel chapters didn't make the characters very sympathetic. 

But in the end I ended up really caring about all of them and their stories and I just had so much fun with it. I do feel like some things were kind of predictable, but the overall idea for this and the specific plot points were quite unique.

I also loved how this book celebrated diversity and familial relationships.

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