A fun read. Jenny O’Quinn and Professor Jase Williams are onto the discovery of a lifetime if they can live to tell about it. They have discovered something that will change the economics of the world and fill in some blanks in the unified field theory. Survival will take all her skills, all her friends, and all her faith. ( )

An adventurous look at particle physics from a YA point of view, this book is a fast read that succeeded in fooling me about who the ultimate bad guy would turn out to be. The protagonist was sympathetic, and so were most other characters, though the carnies were given a bit of gloss on some levels. The engineering/scientific approach the protag uses to experiment with her condition and figure out how to cope with it were well-thought out and some of them were outright funny. The dark matter involved, however, did not really fit anything known about the stuff, and amounted on several occasions to handwavium. I did enjoy the Tinkerbell act and the way it was used to conceal the heroine's 'superhuman' abilities. ( )

In Pixie Dust, the story begins with Jenny conducting an experiment on vacuum decay with her Professor, Jace. Everything seems to be going in order until something wrongs occurs within the experiment. Jenny and Jace are at high altitude and strange things begin to happen. Jenny is falling up and her professor is unconcious after hitting his head but Jenny manages to save her professor and lands them to safety using his parachute. After conducting this experiment and recording the data resulted, Jenny and her professor head back to campus. A few days after the experiment was conducted Jenny recieves the heartbreaking news of the death of her beloved professor in which we learn that Jenny seemed to have fallen in love with him.

Jace's death results in more then Jenny just having a broken heart. The experiment they conducted seemed to have gone to waste and her hopes of obtaining the advance degree that she has been pursuing have gone downhill. Not to mention that she's low on funds and she can't bear to ask her parents for money after the great amount they spent in sending her to the university. But there are some things that Jenny can't quite fanthom, the main thing being the death of her professor. The more that Jenny thinks on this, the more she believe's that his fall in the lab was not an accident.

Did someone know about the experiment they conducted? Did someone intentionally meant to get rid of Jace? If so, does this mean that Jenny is in danger? Aside from this mystery, another one begins to slowly unravel. The experiment that Jenny conducted with Jace left her with a powerful force within her body. As Jenny begins to take notice of this she also finds herself remembering her childhood infatuation with comic books. The hero's, the villains, and the costumes.

I believed that it was a good book but i really did find it difficult to get into at the beginning. The details were not sufficient enough or clear enough for me to imagine the experiment that Jenny and her professor were conducting. There were also certain parts that i felt there was enough dialogue to make the writing flow. The storyline was good but as i said before, certain parts made it a bit hard to follow and get into. ( )