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Connie Lacy

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Værker af Connie Lacy

The Time Telephone (2015) 19 eksemplarer
VisionSight: a Novel (2015) 7 eksemplarer
The Going Back Portal (2019) 7 eksemplarer
A Daffodil for Angie (2017) 5 eksemplarer
The Time Capsule (2020) 3 eksemplarer
A Suffragette in Time (2021) 2 eksemplarer

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More coming-of-age than time-travel

I love the idea of a telephone that would let a person talk to someone in the past. That’s what initially drew me to the book. So I was disappointed that the telephone wasn’t a larger part of the story. However, this is an excellent coming-of-age tale.

Throughout the book, Megan experiences some real emotional growth as she tackles some tough issues. She has the support of her grandmother and some friends from school, and it’s great to see how all the relationships also grow as the story progresses. The teen characters are particularly well portrayed, with the mix of depth and uncertainty that can characterize that age.

The story covers a variety of emotions and, especially near the beginning, does an amazing job of capturing the conflicting, and often simultaneous, emotions of grieving. I loved how Megan frequently expressed her thoughts and feelings in her poems.

Overall, this is a compelling story. It’s just, unfortunately, much lighter on the time-travel aspect than the blurb implies. The book is well suited to a YA audience, as well as anyone who enjoys a good coming-of-age story.

(Read April 2022)
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SLynnHelton | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jan 7, 2023 |
So SO good. I absolutely devoured this book in one sitting. If you are a fan of time-travel historicals like “Outlander” (as I am) you will LOVE this one. Kathryn is visiting her grandmother in Atlanta when she discovers a portal to travel back to the 1800s. There, she encounters Forest Water, a Cherokee woman with her baby, who is being abused by her white husband.

Without getting into too many spoilers, because author Connie Lacy’s writing cleverly peels back layers of this story the further you get in, this is a tale that thoughtfully examines a variety of issues, across different timelines and from different perspectives—from Kathryn’s as a news reporter to Forest Water’s as a Cherokee woman living in a time when both POC and women had zero rights. What do you do when you know someone is being abused, but trying to help them may change the course of the future? What do you do when it simply isn’t possible to go back and correct every wrong that occurred in 1840? It also examines the plight of women and systemic abuse, both from a historical perspective contrasted with a 2019 one.

This was storytelling at its best, with wonderful main characters, and a great cast of side characters. I particularly liked Jenny and Mallory, and of course Nana 😊. You find yourself drawn into both timelines, what is happening in Kathryn’s modern day perspective as she works to take down a serial predator, as well as figure out a way to save Forest Water, as well as the past, as Forest Water works out a way to save herself. SO GOOD!!!

Trigger Warnings: rape, domestic abuse

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KatKinney | Mar 3, 2022 |
It is the mark of a truly great book to ask: “what if” and explore all the thrilling twists and turns that result. “The Time Telephone” does this and takes us on a thrilling ride. We open at the funeral of Megan’s mother, who was a foreign correspondent and has spent her career reporting from dangerous locations and has recently been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. Megan and her mother were not close, to put it mildly, and one of my favorite things about this novel was the way it explores the relationships between its female characters—Megan’s with her mother, with her grandmother, and also the relationship of her mother and grandmother. The details are rich and vivid, from Megan’s interactions with kids in the school cafeteria to dreams that haunt her at night.

Grieving and unsure how to feel, Megan writes her feelings down in her journal of poetry throughout the novel, and we see her emotions evolve in lovely, evocative pieces. She also discovers an antique telephone in a family house marked for demolition. A voice on the other end of the line declares she can call anyone, any time. Of course it must be someone playing a prank. Or is it? Again, we come back to our interesting question of what ifs. If you knew something were going to happen, something terrible, how would you convince the person on the other end of the line? Would you be able to at all? This story completely sucked me in as we learned more of Jody’s history, and things drew to a thrilling conclusion. Can Megan change her mother’s fate? Or are some things set in stone?

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KatKinney | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 3, 2022 |
The styles, the music, the clothes - they change over the years, but parts of high school always remain the same - the popular cheerleaders and jocks, prejudice in one form or another and activists. What does change is time and historical events. That is what sets the grounds for the rest.

In this book we are in the 1960's and we see racism, Vietnam, the feminist movement. The MC is a 17 year old girl trying to make sense of it all and control her hormones at the same time. It is an enjoyable read, but may cause some issues with other readers as racism and prejudice tend to cause.… (mere)
 
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CAKing | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 30, 2020 |

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