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Damselfly Volume 1 Jennie Bates Bozic 9780989734707 Books

*I received this book as an eARC from Jennie Bates Bozic LLC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
I have really been enjoying books lately that walk that line between fantasy and sci-fi. This book does that with a story influenced by Thumbelina. It also even brings in a reality show aspect. The concept alone should be a good enough reason to pick this book up. And it definetely meets the hype.

I am very surprised that this was self-published. I've read quite a few self-published works that just don't quite have the polished feel of more mainstream books. This book is well polished and written excellently.

There are so many surprises throughout this book. I loved the way they were revealed. All the relationships also feel very real.

There is just the right amount of science. I never like it when books try to sound more technical, but use terms incorrectly. The science just is the way it is and it is easy to accept for the story.

I really enjoyed this story and would recommend it to fans of fairytale retellings set in futuristic worlds. I give this book a 4/5.


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Damselfly Volume 1 Jennie Bates Bozic 9780989734707 Books Reviews

Virtual reality! Reality TV! And fairy tales! Oh my! Damselfly was really unique. It's 2081, the world has been devastated by civil wars and global climate change is taking its toll. But, there's the Lilliput Project, which has created Lina a six inch tall girl with damselfly wings. Lina has lived under a dome in Denmark for her whole life, but she's turning sixteen and will finally be free. At least that's what she thinks, until her creator lets her know what the real plan is.

I loved the premise of Damselfly! I'm always a fan of dystopian societies caused by natural disasters, since they feel like the most likely to happen. However, I don't think the world-building was very strong, and I was left with a lot of questions. Of course, Lina doesn't know everything, and she's being lied to, so as a consequences we don't know everything either. But a few major things just didn't add up. For instance, the Lilliput Project was developed in response to growing rates of world hunger, and Lina tells us a few times that the project is self sustaining. But what is it sustaining if the project is creating tiny people? And as far she knows there's only seven of them. And wouldn't shrinking existing people make more sense than creating more if the goal is to save food and resources?

Aside from the questionable basis of the world, I really liked Damselfly. The reality TV twist was fun and messed up! Lina is actually in love with a human named Jack whom she met online, but he doesn't know that she's the world's first Thumbelina. Lina's creator tells her that she has to participate in a dating show with the six Toms that were created for her and choose one at the end. Obviously, Lina doesn't want that, but she has to or else. Then there's a twist! A really screwed up twist, and I felt so bad for Lina! But then there's another twist, and she might get her happy ending! But then there's a reveal! And I was like oh no! That cannot be good.

Despite the lack of world-building, Damselfly hooked me with its premise and quirky plot. I find myself totally rooting for Lina and Jack, even though their size difference will make any kind of relationship super awkward. And mad scientists! I must know what he's up to! Even though I do think Damselfly could have made a great standalone if it hadn't been for that epilogue, which showed some "behind the scenes" stuff that leaves the ending more open.
There are pros and cons to owning a . The greatest pro that I’ve found is that it’s very easy to accumulate books for my to-read pile. If, while browsing or Goodreads, a particular book catches my eye and the price isn’t too much, then I can—and most likely will—download a copy to read later. Sometimes that later is several months later, but the book is there waiting to be read. Such was the case with Damselfly. The idea of a future society trying to solve food and energy problems by creating miniature winged humans appealed to me.

On the flipside, the greatest con to accumulating books on my is that unlike physical copies, the book description isn’t right there on the back cover, and sometimes I don’t remember it when I get around to reading the book months later. Such was the case with Damselfly. The idea of our miniature winged humans in a Bachelorette-esque reality show doesn’t appeal to me, even though I would have known that detail when I purchased the book. It didn’t turn me off then.

So do the wings metaphorically get plucked from this story? Or does it soar above? Let’s get to the review!

It’s the late 21st century, and Lina is a six-inch tall winged teenage girl. She was created by and lives under the supervision of Dr. Christiansen and the Lilliput Project. The first chapter finds her on a survival test against a falcon, and I really enjoyed how it thrusts the reader into the action and into Lina’s world.

She has a few allies in the project and her own little treehouse with a computer, where she’s having a little bit of an online romance with a normal-sized teen boy named Jack who lives halfway across the world. Long-distance relationships can be difficult, but add to that the difference in their heights—although Lina hasn’t been able to tell him the truth about that. They’ve gone on dates in virtual reality situations where she can appear wingless and his size, and soon she’s going to be a legal adult and be free.

Or so she thought.

Turns out there’s a second Lilliput Project that has created six “Toms”—boys the same size she is. I liked this development because it brings about so many solid questions. Why didn’t they tell Lina about the boys? Why is she the only girl? Seriously, from a completely scientific standpoint, if you’re going to make tiny people and see if they’re sustainable—i.e. that reproduction is possible—wouldn’t you need more girls? So what, if anything, went wrong? Is there something far more sinister going on? These are great mysteries, and Lina uses her ingenuity and her small, easy-to-not-see stature to uncover them.

But instead of letting Lina naturally meet the Toms and maybe fall in love with one of them, they put her on a reality show where Lina is to go on dates with them and ultimately select one to be with. Dr. Christiansen blackmails Lina into participating with a threat against Jack—a good enough detail to portray the scientist as a villain—but the idea of scientists resorting to a reality show doesn’t seem very scientific to me. Also, the introduction of six new characters gives most of them very little room to be developed beyond types.

I’m torn with this book. The writing is serviceable, and there are many well-described scenes from Lina’s tiny point of view. When it’s in reality-show mode, there’s nothing that really elevates it above a mixture between standard YA teen love triangles and a reduced version of other YA dystopian reality shows like in The Hunger Games, and I wouldn’t rate it higher than three stars. However, when it’s Lina alone trying to get to the bottom of a conspiracy that she was unknowingly born into—or when she’s with Jack yet still alone and afraid how to tell him the truth—the book is really strong, even five-star worthy in places.

So I’ll take an average. Though there are parts that bug me, Damselfly spreads its wings enough to fly up to FOUR STARS.
*I received this book as an eARC from Jennie Bates Bozic LLC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
I have really been enjoying books lately that walk that line between fantasy and sci-fi. This book does that with a story influenced by Thumbelina. It also even brings in a reality show aspect. The concept alone should be a good enough reason to pick this book up. And it definetely meets the hype.

I am very surprised that this was self-published. I've read quite a few self-published works that just don't quite have the polished feel of more mainstream books. This book is well polished and written excellently.

There are so many surprises throughout this book. I loved the way they were revealed. All the relationships also feel very real.

There is just the right amount of science. I never like it when books try to sound more technical, but use terms incorrectly. The science just is the way it is and it is easy to accept for the story.

I really enjoyed this story and would recommend it to fans of fairytale retellings set in futuristic worlds. I give this book a 4/5.