Imagine if you could choose to see the future -- more specifically, the multiple futures that could happen if you make a choice. 
 Such is the idea behind "Pivot Point," told from the perspective of a girl who has spent all her life among people with superhuman powers, and now has to choose whether to live among "Norms." It's an interesting idea, but Kasie West's execution falls pretty much flat -- teen romance dominates most of the story instead of the more interesting B-plot, and the depiction of the empowered people is too "normal." 
 Addie has spent her whole life in the paranormal compound, surrounded by people with teleportation, memory control, lie detection, mood manipulation and other powers. But then she's told that her parents are divorcing, and her father will be going out to live among Norms. She can go or stay as she chooses. So she uses her Searching power to look into the two potential futures that lie ahead of her. 
 In one of the futures, she leaves the compound with her dad, and meets a smart young artist named Trevor at her new Norm school. In the other, she stays and becomes interested in the handsome, popular telekinetic Duke. But the choice becomes a lot more complicated when Addie finds out about a mysterious criminal known as Poison, who has a power she doesn't recognize. 
 "Pivot Point" is one of those books that has a lot of potential -- you have a secret group of paranormally-gifted people who live in a compound and work for the government, and a heroine who can see any potential future. Really, how could you screw that up? 
 Unfortunately, Kasie West fumbles both these things. Except for a few details (telekinetic football games) the paranormals are far too mundane in their concerns and attitudes, and their impact on the world is minimal at best. Seriously, these people CARE about football, of all things? As for the heroine, Addie hardly ever uses her ability except to decide who she should live with. 
 West's writing is rather mundane as well -- she outlines fairly well what's happening, but there's no "you are there" zesty details to pull in readers. Moreover, she spends the first half of the book entirely on ordinary teenage concerns, particularly on the not-very-interesting love triangle whose outcome is painfully obvious. Only at the halfway point does West introduce us to Poison and his mystery power... only to then lapse back into football cheating and teen romance for a very, very long time. 
 Addie is admittedly an entertaining heroine -- she's snarky, savvy and something of an outsider, either by choice or by nature. But Laila has all the charm of a live wire in your coffee, and Trevor and Duke are basically hot-boyfriend archetypes -- one is all hot, sensitive and sweet, while the other is the popular blonde football star. And yes, it is painfully obvious whom Addie will end up with. 
 "Pivot Point" doesn't pivot too far from the norm here -- it has some nice ideas and a pleasant heroine, but everything about it is far too blandly ORDINARY. Wait for Brandon Sanderson's "Steelheart."