Damselfly (Damselfly #1)
Release Date: 11/11/13
Summary from Goodreads:
In 2065,
the Lilliput Project created Lina - the first six-inch-tall winged girl - as
the solution to a worldwide energy and food crisis. Isolated in a compound
amidst the forests of Denmark, Lina has grown up aware of only one purpose:
learn how to survive in a world filled with hawks, bumblebees, and loneliness.
However, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, she discovers that she's not the
only teenager her size. Six 'Toms' were created shortly after Lina, and now her
creators need to prove to the world that tiny people are the next logical step
in human evolution. In other words, they need to prove that reproduction is
possible.
Um. No thanks. Lina's already fallen in love with a boy she met online named Jack. Only he has no idea that thumbelina1847 could literally fit inside his heart.
When her creators threaten to hurt Jack unless she chooses a husband from among the 'Toms', Lina agrees to star in a reality TV series. Once the episodes begin to air, the secret of her size is out. Cut off from any contact with the outside world, Lina assumes Jack is no longer interested. After all, what guy would want to date a girl he can't even kiss?
Slowly, very slowly, she befriends the six young men who see her as their only ticket to happiness. Perhaps she can make just one guy's dream of love and companionship come true. But her creators have a few more twists in store for her that she never thought possible.
She's not the only one playing to the cameras.
Um. No thanks. Lina's already fallen in love with a boy she met online named Jack. Only he has no idea that thumbelina1847 could literally fit inside his heart.
When her creators threaten to hurt Jack unless she chooses a husband from among the 'Toms', Lina agrees to star in a reality TV series. Once the episodes begin to air, the secret of her size is out. Cut off from any contact with the outside world, Lina assumes Jack is no longer interested. After all, what guy would want to date a girl he can't even kiss?
Slowly, very slowly, she befriends the six young men who see her as their only ticket to happiness. Perhaps she can make just one guy's dream of love and companionship come true. But her creators have a few more twists in store for her that she never thought possible.
She's not the only one playing to the cameras.
Excerpt:
When I was a little girl, about five or six years old, Mr. Coxworth gave me several pop-up children's books. He propped them up on the kitchen counter in his house, and I would play in the paper castles and oceans. I'd never heard the stories my "forts" belonged to, so I made up my own instead.
Cinderella's castle became the home of my "real parents," who would come and rescue me someday and break the curse keeping me so tiny. We would ride away in a gilded carriage, and I would never have to return to Lilliput ever again.
Hansel and Gretel became my brother and sister. Together we would bury the evil witch in candy and then live in her gingerbread house forever. In my reimagining, Hansel was my protective older brother and Gretel much younger, the baby of the family. And I was smack in the middle. Normal. And I didn't have to go to school or have tutors or learn old, dead languages.
The Snow Queen looked so very much like Dr. Christiansen in the illustrations that I imagined they were one and the same. Hansel and Gretel would come and spring me from her icy castle, and we would escape to our gingerbread house on the next page.
As I grew out of the pop-up books, I began to write my own stories in a little notebook. I called them my "True Tales," and they were my dreams for what my life would have been if I'd been born under different circumstances. Tales of my first day at school, getting a poor grade in English, first crush, first kiss…
When I met Jack, I stopped writing them.
Today I write a new one. Not on paper. Not for anyone to find. I write it on my soul.
Cinderella's castle became the home of my "real parents," who would come and rescue me someday and break the curse keeping me so tiny. We would ride away in a gilded carriage, and I would never have to return to Lilliput ever again.
Hansel and Gretel became my brother and sister. Together we would bury the evil witch in candy and then live in her gingerbread house forever. In my reimagining, Hansel was my protective older brother and Gretel much younger, the baby of the family. And I was smack in the middle. Normal. And I didn't have to go to school or have tutors or learn old, dead languages.
The Snow Queen looked so very much like Dr. Christiansen in the illustrations that I imagined they were one and the same. Hansel and Gretel would come and spring me from her icy castle, and we would escape to our gingerbread house on the next page.
As I grew out of the pop-up books, I began to write my own stories in a little notebook. I called them my "True Tales," and they were my dreams for what my life would have been if I'd been born under different circumstances. Tales of my first day at school, getting a poor grade in English, first crush, first kiss…
When I met Jack, I stopped writing them.
Today I write a new one. Not on paper. Not for anyone to find. I write it on my soul.
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Lina is a six inch girl who has grown up thinking that she is the only little person in the whole wide world. She doesn't know that there are six "Toms" until the eve of her sixteenth birthday. Lina believes that when she turns sixteen that she will be an adult and she will get to move away from the compound that she has lived on her whole life. But upon her birthday she finds out that she has been played for a fool her whole life. Lina finds out about the Toms and that she is to choose one of the Toms to marry and hopefully they will and can have a family of little people.
Lina is very disappointed when she learns of this. You see Lina met a guy online named Jack, she never tells him that she is only six inches tall and that she has wings. She believes that there is no way that Jack could ever love someone that he could hold in his hand. Lina doesn't want to marry any of the Toms but she is not given a choice. She is blackmailed into staring on a reality tv show with the Toms. Lina falls in love with this guy Jack that she met online and is told if she does not cooperate and pick one of the Toms then her Jack will be hurt. Lina would never do anything to cause harm to Jack so she goes along with the tv show and picking one of the Toms to become her husband.
To keep Jack from being harmed Lina breaks his heart by telling him that they can no longer be friends. It breaks her heart to have to hurt him like this but she doesn't believe that she has a choice in the matter and that it is the only way she can keep him safe.
Oh, I really, really loved Lina and all the Toms. I loved reading about fairies and little people with wings. This is the first book about six inch people that I remember ever reading and it is amazing. If you have not read a book about fairies that is six inches tall then Damselfly is a great book to start with.
Lina is a six inch girl who has grown up thinking that she is the only little person in the whole wide world. She doesn't know that there are six "Toms" until the eve of her sixteenth birthday. Lina believes that when she turns sixteen that she will be an adult and she will get to move away from the compound that she has lived on her whole life. But upon her birthday she finds out that she has been played for a fool her whole life. Lina finds out about the Toms and that she is to choose one of the Toms to marry and hopefully they will and can have a family of little people.
Lina is very disappointed when she learns of this. You see Lina met a guy online named Jack, she never tells him that she is only six inches tall and that she has wings. She believes that there is no way that Jack could ever love someone that he could hold in his hand. Lina doesn't want to marry any of the Toms but she is not given a choice. She is blackmailed into staring on a reality tv show with the Toms. Lina falls in love with this guy Jack that she met online and is told if she does not cooperate and pick one of the Toms then her Jack will be hurt. Lina would never do anything to cause harm to Jack so she goes along with the tv show and picking one of the Toms to become her husband.
To keep Jack from being harmed Lina breaks his heart by telling him that they can no longer be friends. It breaks her heart to have to hurt him like this but she doesn't believe that she has a choice in the matter and that it is the only way she can keep him safe.
Oh, I really, really loved Lina and all the Toms. I loved reading about fairies and little people with wings. This is the first book about six inch people that I remember ever reading and it is amazing. If you have not read a book about fairies that is six inches tall then Damselfly is a great book to start with.
About the Author
I'm a visual effects artist for film and television by day,
and at night I don my author cape and pen stories for the YA crowd. I love a
good fairy tale, especially if there's a creepy twist, so that's what I write.
I met my husband in the World of Warcraft and we live in Los Angeles with our cat. We spend our time playing video games, reading, hiking, sweeping up cat hair, and cursing the terrible traffic.
I have a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Hillsdale College, and some of my past jobs have included: swimming lessons teacher, lifeguard, furniture salesperson, barista, and loan officer. I was especially terrible at the loan officer bit and that's what prompted me to make a major change and go off to Canada to get a diploma in 3D Animation and Visual Effects. After that, I moved to Los Angeles by myself and roomed with two crazy sisters I found on Craigslist. But that's another tale.
I met my husband in the World of Warcraft and we live in Los Angeles with our cat. We spend our time playing video games, reading, hiking, sweeping up cat hair, and cursing the terrible traffic.
I have a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Hillsdale College, and some of my past jobs have included: swimming lessons teacher, lifeguard, furniture salesperson, barista, and loan officer. I was especially terrible at the loan officer bit and that's what prompted me to make a major change and go off to Canada to get a diploma in 3D Animation and Visual Effects. After that, I moved to Los Angeles by myself and roomed with two crazy sisters I found on Craigslist. But that's another tale.
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