Summary

Jelly Cooper is a fourteen year-old girl with an intergalactic size chip on her shoulder. She’s street savvy, feisty and smart. She’s also an alien in the biggest fight of her life. Just after her fourteenth birthday, Jelly begins to have nightmares and visions. She’s running for her life along the barren planes of an unfamiliar landscape. Something is coming for her; an evil, black presence that has only one goal: to hunt her down and kill her. With each visit, the malevolence of the dream swells and Jelly finds the walls between the day-to-day reality of her life and the horrors of her nightmare bleeding together. Enlisting the help of her two friends, Jelly soon discovers that she’s an alien. She’s not over the moon about it, but what can you do? This earth-shattering revelation is not without its advantages. Jelly has powers; she can levitate objects, read minds and more. She begins training, aware that her powers have lain dormant, which is a shame as they’re all that’s standing between her and certain death. Unfortunately, things keep getting in her way, like the sudden interest of the school heartthrob and her ongoing war with her the most popular girl in school. Jelly soon realises that teenage angst is the least of her worries. She has a hunter on her tail and he has one motivation; to find her and destroy her and anybody who gets in the way

Genre: Scifi,Adventure

Author: Lynne Thomas

Status: Complete

Chapters: 25

Rating: n/a (1 review)

Age Rating: 13+

Preface

Jelly Cooper was written by twenty-something me for fourteen-year-old me. Too old for Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew but too young for Stephen King (so the librarian said), I would stand in front of the teenager section in a semi-desperate trance, trying to find something a bit action, a bit sci-fi with a strong central female character. Something a bit kooky and kick ass.

I spent a lot of time standing in front of those six shelves, scanning titles, reading blurbs.

Though the library remains, times have changed. The teenage section is now dubbed ‘Young Adult’ and is massive. Harry Potter started it and Twilight took it stratospheric. There are lots and lots of books out there for fourteen year olds, and particularly fourteen year old girls.

But, do you know what? I think that I’d still stand in front of that section in a semi-desperate trance trying to find something that I wanted to read. Something with a main character that’s a bit gobby, a lot feisty and a tad more recognisable to me. Not perfect by any stretch, but powerful in her own way.

So, in what was a completely selfish endeavour, I wrote Jelly Cooper. She’s the fourteen year old girl that I wanted to read about when I was fourteen.

I hope you like her.