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Lucy
Ten-year-old Lucy and her parents live on Earth in the last throes of its final holocaust. Their only hope is being accepted as refugees on another world; but one rejection letter after another eats away at their hope, while death closes in on them. Hope revives when a stranger arrives with a letter of acceptance from the mysterious planet, Andorpha. While Lucy, her best friend, Kim, and her parents wait to board the space ship, her parents are killed. Lucy faces danger and growth as she comes to grips with her parents' death, and the strange customs of Andorpha. While her best friend-cum-sister, Kim, laps up Andorphian love like warm milk, Lucy wonders if it's all too good to be true. When Lucy learns the Andorphians believe their planet is under a curse, she begins to suspect there is a reason she and her family were so readily accepted as refugees. Do they expect her to be the antidote to an ancient curse? When Kim urges Lucy to accept the Andorphians and their way of life, the only shot at life they have, Lucy is certain she's right. All is not what it seems.
168 pages, Paperback
Published July 20, 2018
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Thea Ramsay
10 books8 followersThea Ramsay (nee Darlene Adele Beckstead), was born completely blind, due to prematurity.
She attended the Ontario School for the Blind from 1970-1977, then moved with her mother (late) to British Columbia to be mainstreamed in a public school.
Despite being the only totally blind student in high school and college, Ramsay excelled in creative writing, English Literature, and Spanish. Though her experience hosting her own radio show on C.K.A.Y. in Duncan, BC, during her teens, failed to net her a job in broadcasting, she studied and worked in both acting and music.
In her spare time, she imagined and wrote stories of other worlds and aliens. But Ms. Ramsay didn't get a taste of the writing industry till she was in her mid-thirties, married to a blind man, and raising two children.
Pink Rosettes, a novella about the Biblical Rapture and last days, was published by www.authorstreet.com It is no longer available.
Recently, she has published another novella, A Very Special House, fictional with a real foundation. After her health and marriage failed, she left Maui where she'd lived with her family for twelve years, to return to Canada. For years, she was tantalized every night by at least one dream about the house on Maui where she'd lived, dreaming that her marriage had worked and she was living there again, only to waken and readjust to the fact that she was alone, and her ex-husband dead. A Very Special House was the result, in which her character, Louise Falcon, experiences the same tantalizing dream of a domestic harmony that never really existed.
As chronic pain and inflammation from various diseases narrowed her horizons still further, Ms. Ramsay found herself alone after the death of her husband and friends and any remaining family moved away or passed away. As of this writing, she is fifty-three, and practically a shut-in. She devotes much of her time listening to Biblical podcasts and relies on her relationship with Jesus Christ.
It was in these circumstances she imagined Andorpha, the loving, romantic world inhabited by furry cat people whose law is love, where no one is alone. Lucy, recently published by Tellwell Talent, Inc., is the first book of a series that tells the story of a young girl and her best friend who flee to Andorpha from a war-ravaged Earth.
While Lucy has received some mixed reviews, Thea Ramsay is hard at work on the second book in the series, and thanks everyone for their support and encouragement.
She hopes to see Lucy on the big screen or on the musical stage, as was the book Wicked.
Of course, if someone wanted to produce "A Very Special House", she wouldn't quibble.
She lives in Toronto with her beautiful, fluffy cat, Theta.
She attended the Ontario School for the Blind from 1970-1977, then moved with her mother (late) to British Columbia to be mainstreamed in a public school.
Despite being the only totally blind student in high school and college, Ramsay excelled in creative writing, English Literature, and Spanish. Though her experience hosting her own radio show on C.K.A.Y. in Duncan, BC, during her teens, failed to net her a job in broadcasting, she studied and worked in both acting and music.
In her spare time, she imagined and wrote stories of other worlds and aliens. But Ms. Ramsay didn't get a taste of the writing industry till she was in her mid-thirties, married to a blind man, and raising two children.
Pink Rosettes, a novella about the Biblical Rapture and last days, was published by www.authorstreet.com It is no longer available.
Recently, she has published another novella, A Very Special House, fictional with a real foundation. After her health and marriage failed, she left Maui where she'd lived with her family for twelve years, to return to Canada. For years, she was tantalized every night by at least one dream about the house on Maui where she'd lived, dreaming that her marriage had worked and she was living there again, only to waken and readjust to the fact that she was alone, and her ex-husband dead. A Very Special House was the result, in which her character, Louise Falcon, experiences the same tantalizing dream of a domestic harmony that never really existed.
As chronic pain and inflammation from various diseases narrowed her horizons still further, Ms. Ramsay found herself alone after the death of her husband and friends and any remaining family moved away or passed away. As of this writing, she is fifty-three, and practically a shut-in. She devotes much of her time listening to Biblical podcasts and relies on her relationship with Jesus Christ.
It was in these circumstances she imagined Andorpha, the loving, romantic world inhabited by furry cat people whose law is love, where no one is alone. Lucy, recently published by Tellwell Talent, Inc., is the first book of a series that tells the story of a young girl and her best friend who flee to Andorpha from a war-ravaged Earth.
While Lucy has received some mixed reviews, Thea Ramsay is hard at work on the second book in the series, and thanks everyone for their support and encouragement.
She hopes to see Lucy on the big screen or on the musical stage, as was the book Wicked.
Of course, if someone wanted to produce "A Very Special House", she wouldn't quibble.
She lives in Toronto with her beautiful, fluffy cat, Theta.
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January 11, 2019
Too much going on
I feel badly that my first review of 2019 is so low, but this book just missed too many marks for me.
The character development was off. Kim and Lucy (the protagonists) are set as teenagers and yet they talk like 55-year old divorcees. Then there’s Lucy’s parents who you finally get a feel for and then they are out of the story. There’s a shape shifting teacher who “shifts” between a good and bad guy. There’s an adoptive family who actually have ill-motives. And that’s just half of it. With all these characters and their backstories, you (as the reader) miss so much that you feel no empathy for any of them.
But what really threw me off was the introduction of WAY too many heavy topics - war, refugees, suicide, murder, abuse, lying, blindness, religion, shape shifting (I’m mention that again because I did not see this becoming a sci-fi book), etc.
Bottom line, this book had too many ideas. It lacked focus and concision.
I feel badly that my first review of 2019 is so low, but this book just missed too many marks for me.
The character development was off. Kim and Lucy (the protagonists) are set as teenagers and yet they talk like 55-year old divorcees. Then there’s Lucy’s parents who you finally get a feel for and then they are out of the story. There’s a shape shifting teacher who “shifts” between a good and bad guy. There’s an adoptive family who actually have ill-motives. And that’s just half of it. With all these characters and their backstories, you (as the reader) miss so much that you feel no empathy for any of them.
But what really threw me off was the introduction of WAY too many heavy topics - war, refugees, suicide, murder, abuse, lying, blindness, religion, shape shifting (I’m mention that again because I did not see this becoming a sci-fi book), etc.
Bottom line, this book had too many ideas. It lacked focus and concision.
January 9, 2019
Give this one a chance
I struggled through the first few chapters because of all the cussing, but it tapers off quickly and we begin tie see the underlining mystery. Who are the Tagh and why does the Tagh Queen want Lucy on Andorpha?
Earth has been at war for so long, most can't remember what started it. It has left Earth torn and tattered. The lucky ones have found refugee status on dozens of inhabited planets. The less fortunate seek to end life via poison. Lucy's family has sought refugee status on dozens of worlds, always rejected for reason like too many refugees already. However, when Lucy goes after the kids mistreating her blind teacher, Mrs Talbot transforms into a beautiful creature and suddenly Lucy and her family have found refuge on the planet Andorpha, a place full of love. Mrs Talbot even makes it possible for Lucy's best friend to join her. But minutes before takeoff, the spaceport explodes and Lucy wakes aboard the ship heading for Andorpha. Her parents are dead and Lucy's est friend is in coma and may never recover. Suddenly, Lucy isn't sure who to trust, but while figuring it out she will have to choose a new name and watch her mouth because aggression, even passive aggression can have terrible consequences on Andorpha.
Already looking forward to book 2.
I struggled through the first few chapters because of all the cussing, but it tapers off quickly and we begin tie see the underlining mystery. Who are the Tagh and why does the Tagh Queen want Lucy on Andorpha?
Earth has been at war for so long, most can't remember what started it. It has left Earth torn and tattered. The lucky ones have found refugee status on dozens of inhabited planets. The less fortunate seek to end life via poison. Lucy's family has sought refugee status on dozens of worlds, always rejected for reason like too many refugees already. However, when Lucy goes after the kids mistreating her blind teacher, Mrs Talbot transforms into a beautiful creature and suddenly Lucy and her family have found refuge on the planet Andorpha, a place full of love. Mrs Talbot even makes it possible for Lucy's best friend to join her. But minutes before takeoff, the spaceport explodes and Lucy wakes aboard the ship heading for Andorpha. Her parents are dead and Lucy's est friend is in coma and may never recover. Suddenly, Lucy isn't sure who to trust, but while figuring it out she will have to choose a new name and watch her mouth because aggression, even passive aggression can have terrible consequences on Andorpha.
Already looking forward to book 2.
January 26, 2019
An interesting premise - a wrecked and war-ridden Earth where people either find their way to another planet or make 'The Choice' - and an engaging, scrappy title character. Unfortunately, the dialog felt unnatural for all characters, including the lead, and the book didn't end, it just...stopped. I appreciate that this is intended as the beginning of a series, but with no part of the story resolved and no interesting turn set up at the end of the first book, it's difficult to muster much enthusiasm for the sequel.
January 13, 2019
Really enjoyed
I really enjoyed this novel and am anxious to find out what happens next. I have to admit to being intrigued by a planet of cat "people"; I think it would be hard to resist all of that soft lovely fur! guess I am a bit like Kim/Precious! I am very curious about the whole underground thing, I wonder if that is where the rehabilitation center is and citizens like Uncle Warm are responsible for growing food, etc. Also, I want to know more about the Queen of the Taghs and her curious connection to Lucy/Honey.
I really enjoyed this novel and am anxious to find out what happens next. I have to admit to being intrigued by a planet of cat "people"; I think it would be hard to resist all of that soft lovely fur! guess I am a bit like Kim/Precious! I am very curious about the whole underground thing, I wonder if that is where the rehabilitation center is and citizens like Uncle Warm are responsible for growing food, etc. Also, I want to know more about the Queen of the Taghs and her curious connection to Lucy/Honey.
September 22, 2019
Sweet story
This was a sweet story, but some elements weren't for me. The concept of the story was a good one, but I feel the book was half finished. The characters were not as developed as I would prefer, and the use of 20th Century references by people far in the future was off putting. How is a...
This was a sweet story, but some elements weren't for me. The concept of the story was a good one, but I feel the book was half finished. The characters were not as developed as I would prefer, and the use of 20th Century references by people far in the future was off putting. How is a...
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