Introverted, intuitive healer, Jada “Jey” Grey has nothing left to lose. After all, her skills and knowledge couldn’t save her mother from a manmade virus. Set in 2071, with the heat index reaching crippling levels on Earth, Jey is barely coping. But when she stumbles upon an opportunity to launch from Earth, she feels compelled to go. The mission—to create a new colony on an unexplored … unexplored exoplanet—fits right in with Jey’s dreams. Her friendship with a clairvoyant child onboard the ship, her growing empathic abilities, and her attempts at love spark an unfamiliar hope.
But when a rival corporation sabotages their ship, and their target planet is a wasteland, Jey must set aside her old self-destructive patterns and take a leap into a new way of being—and seeing. Her connection to the seeds and plants changes everything. Can she convince the other colonists that her clairvoyant vision is exactly what they need?
“Engaging, positive, uplifting with a good story. The kind of book I like to read but is so difficult to find.” —Andrew, Goodreads
“I loved this story of Jey and her journey out to the stars and in to her self at the same time… I particularly like the writing style, the language, and how the dialogue felt true to the characters who were speaking. As a first novel it was outstanding.”— Elissa Matthews, author of Where the River Bends
“I loved this book from the instant I began reading it… Seeds of Change features a solid narrative arc, tiptoes between genres of fantasy, dystopian fiction, and sci-fi, clean smooth-flowing language that drew me in from start to finish, and, ultimately, some really nice feel-good vibes. A very enjoyable read!” — Angela Panayotopulos, author of The Wake Up
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Jey is a homeopathic healer, trying to keep people alive in a time of societal decay and global warming, but it’s a losing battle. So, she jumps on the idea of joining a colony vessel and making a fresh start, someplace far away from poor ailing Earth.
At first all seems well on the spaceship, called the Two by Two. But the first twinges of uneasiness come from Jey’s friend’s daughter, a girl whose empathic abilities have been aggravated by the sheer human density aboard the spaceship. Some of the passengers and crew simply “feel” wrong.
And it turns out the uneasiness is grounded in fact. All is not what it seems aboard ship. Some would-be colonists aren’t really there to build a better world at all. Their plan is to subvert the growing world for a shadowy organization, the Z Corporation.
I usually try on these reviews to help the book find its audience. I think this book’s readership will be mostly women, who might say that they’re spiritual but not religious. Definitely more for those who like space opera rather than hard SF. And it’s a book for adult readers, not a YA/adult crossover read. For this audience, I think Seeds of Change will be a satisfying read.
Just finished reading and absolutely loved it! It’s a very good mixture of sci-fi and spirituality. Would love to live in a world what the colonists created on the new planet. Also was a good reminder to protect what we still have in here and live more close and in harmony with Mother Nature. Thank you!
This is a great story about a pair that are doing their best to survive on Earth as homeopathic healers. Jada is the main protagonist, of sorts, who sees an add looking for volunteers for a colony ship and decides she wants to participate. She is able to, with very little effort, to convince her colleague and friend, Celie, to join her.
A short period later, they embark on a bus journey to the colony ship. After arrival at the ship, the story revolves around their preparations and getting to know a few new characters. The ship eventually launches and during their trip, there is some trouble that arises due to Celie’s daughter, Talleh. She is empathic and feels that there is a negativity among some of the passengers. They find that there are some on the ship that aren’t there for an altruistic fresh start for the humans aboard.
The ship arrives at the destination planet and they find that there is very little negative about the situation. The atmosphere is close to Earth, but not really directly breathable for long periods of time. They begin setting up their colony after dealing with the few people aboard the ship that didn’t seem to be going along with the other passenger’s plans.
They get a colony setup on the planet and much of the story revolves around the two healers, and the empathic daughter, Talleh. Soon they find that there is more sentience around them than would be readily apparent by the naked eye.
They are joined by another colony ship that is related to their miscreants aboard their own ship. This group is there more to begin mining operations etc. than to colonize. The remainder of the story generally revolves around the interactions between these two colonies and how they try to work out their difference in agendas.
I did enjoy the story. I was interested to find out what was going to happen next as they progressed in their adventure. I’ll admit that I was thrown a little by the lack of conflict and adversity.
During their long bus trip, the description of things around was very depressing, yet there were no resulting issues to come from it. At one stop, an important member of the crew did not show up and they were waiting for hours after their appointed time. Then, she just shows up and they leave. It seemed very anticlimactic.
This type of theme prevailed in the story. Anything that came up as adversity was relatively quickly overcome and everybody was happy and moved on. This gives the story a very upbeat theme and gives a view of how this type of activity may progress if everything goes according to plan with only a few glitches.
While I know this story was not meant to be Hard SciFi, I could not help but notice that the colony ship only had about three hundred members. As most people interested in colony ship type stories probably know, that is not enough for genetic diversity in a new colony. There would start to be genetic effects due to inbreeding several generations in the future. While carrying frozen embryos etc. can help with that number, it is still a very small number to start with. It’s just something that popped into my mind while reading…
I feel that if you enjoy SciFi and some Fantasy then you’ll enjoy this story. They story does not have episodes that result in fighting or military type battles, so it revolves mainly around the characters and their adventure. My only hope is that more people follow their lead and the colony receives more people to insure their long term survival. I guess I’ll see in future installment of the adventure!