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questingnotcoasting's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Violence
apostrophen's review against another edition
4.0
You'd think that after telling the Feds that she had lost her amazing powers and was no longer 'Lightning Girl' that Jess's life would return to normal. Not so. For one, she still has the power to find people just by looking at their picture before going to sleep, and for another, she's stuck at band camp, playing camp counselor for a group of rowdy kids. Worse, Rob, the boy who just might be her boyfriend if he'd get over his whole 'being on probation and dating a younger girl' thing, hasn't called at all.
But when a man gets into the camp and begs her to find his daughter, Jess decides to help, and in typical style, her life immediately explodes into disaster, and she must use her power, her wits, and her nigh-inexhaustible supply of attitude and anger-management issues to get through it. Fans of Cabot will be just as happy with this, the second installment of the 1-800-Where-R-U series, and I really suggest you buy them all in one shot - you won't want to wait between them.
But when a man gets into the camp and begs her to find his daughter, Jess decides to help, and in typical style, her life immediately explodes into disaster, and she must use her power, her wits, and her nigh-inexhaustible supply of attitude and anger-management issues to get through it. Fans of Cabot will be just as happy with this, the second installment of the 1-800-Where-R-U series, and I really suggest you buy them all in one shot - you won't want to wait between them.
spellbindingstories's review against another edition
4.0
After reading the entire series, this book is the one that I remember most. I'm not sure exactly why, but there was something significantly neat about this book that made me adore it.
aimee70807's review against another edition
5.0
This book is really fast and fluffy, but surprisingly good and real. I had forgotten what it was like to be a teenage counselor at summer camp....
reader_fictions's review against another edition
3.0
The series improves with Code Name Cassandra, but there are still problems courtesy of its age. Jess is working as a camp counselor at a music camp (dear god, who would ever hire Jess to be responsible for children???). Put in charge of boys due to a dearth of male counselors, Jess spends the weeks being called a lesbian by the campers because she has short hair. She, too, at the end uses “lesbian” as an insult to the female FBI Agent who follows her around. That shit ain’t cool. There’s also an instance or two of the r-word.
Setting that aside, the plot hangs together a bit together than in book one. This series has some conceptual flaws, like how it will forever be impossible to believe that anyone buys Jess’ really shallow pretense of not having her powers anymore, but at least no one breaks into a military facility. The summer camp focus sets the series much more solidly in the realm of the realistically teen. There are two plots here that end up converging in an ending more silly than scary.
These books work a lot better as comedies than as paranormal mysteries, but it’s hard to say sometimes which aspects are tongue-in-cheek and which aren’t. Cabot got a lot better at mysteries later, with Heather Wells.
Setting that aside, the plot hangs together a bit together than in book one. This series has some conceptual flaws, like how it will forever be impossible to believe that anyone buys Jess’ really shallow pretense of not having her powers anymore, but at least no one breaks into a military facility. The summer camp focus sets the series much more solidly in the realm of the realistically teen. There are two plots here that end up converging in an ending more silly than scary.
These books work a lot better as comedies than as paranormal mysteries, but it’s hard to say sometimes which aspects are tongue-in-cheek and which aren’t. Cabot got a lot better at mysteries later, with Heather Wells.