One question I had early on after Addie embarked on her “Search” was simply, what happens if you Search within a Search? Is it possible to get into some kind of Search infinite regression? Fortunately, West poses and answers this question in the book. West could have made it even more gimmicky, and I think she wisely chose to keep it pretty simple. It’s by far one of the coolest reading experiences I’ve had in a while. This dual-worldline narrative is awesome. I see what you did there! It’s actually helpful, though, especially towards the middle of the book where the worldlines start to converge again. It took me longer than it should have to figure out that the chapters where Addie chooses Dad start with words that have norm in them, while the chapters with Mom in the Compound have definitions of words that contain para. She has to choose one option.Įach chapter has a definition as an epigraph.

Turns out that either way isn’t that good … but Kasie West doesn’t give Addie an easy way out. The eponymous Pivot Point is Addie’s choice of who to live with: Dad, who is leaving the Compound to live among the “norms” or Mom, who is staying in the Compound and trying to keep everything status quo? Naturally Addie uses her power to find out what would happen along either path. But that all changes when her parents divorce. Addie has led a pretty privileged and cushiony life. This is the Tomorrow People if the Tomorrow People were led by adults and not afraid for their lives because they’re all safe in a Compound in Texas. Addison Coleman, or Addie, is a mutant Tomorrow Person-damn it, she’s got mind powers, mmkay? But not floaty-move-stuff-with-your-mind powers-that’s Telekinetics-or memory-erasing powers-that’s Erasing-she can see the two possible paths that branch from a choice she has to make-Discerning, or Divergence, or whatever.

Pivot point by kasie west