All they have to do is want it badly enough, and know the physical path between their current location and their destination. Mankind discovers by accident that they can “jaunte”, which is to instantaneously transport themselves to other locations using the power of their mind and their will. The world-building was kind of interesting, if impossible to suspend one’s disbelief on. Gully falls in love with the girl responsible for not rescuing him, a girl he barely knows, and suddenly has a complete change of heart about everything.

I dislike unmotivated characters, and I dislike characters motivated purely by revenge, and I hate the trope where (major spoiler) instalove conquers all. Along the way, he ropes in various cardboard women and makes them miserable. Then he suddenly exercises his brain, figures out all sorts of technical things he had no knowledge of in order to save himself, then goes on a mad quest for revenge. Until he almost dies, and somebody who could have rescued him chooses not to.

The main character is Gully Foyle, an unmotivated guy who plods along through life doing nothing spectacular. The story starts off with a world-building dump which goes on for quite a while before we ever meet the main character. The books that bore me are some of the hardest for me to write reviews for, because nothing engaged me enough to evoke any strong opinions.

It’s fortunate my Kindle is water resistant, because this book bored me to tears.

The stars my destination book