Welcome To The Lighthouse Islands
A story of friendship and families, shared losses, triumphs, and celebrations, learning and growing, doing good and doing well, and being there for each other, regardless.
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Despite having grown up being told that girls don’t need to go to college, J. Jacquie Meadows put herself through college while working full time. She graduated with honors earning both a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in organizational leadership.
Jacquie spent over forty years as a Land professional in the Oil and Gas industry, where she considers her most significant accomplishment, and greatest joy, to have been the mentoring and career development of the younger generation and successful teams to replace the oil patch’s good ol’ boys.
Having stumbled into her life-long career only by mistake, or good fortune, Jacquie is motivated to help others more purposefully determine their future. In the Lighthouse Islands Young Adult series, Jacquie’s characters strive to discover and follow their purpose and passions, rather than let society do it for them.
Jacquie has always had a passion for writing and for lighthouses—symbolizing light and guidance—and since retiring recently, spends her days bringing both to life as she works on the Lighthouse Islands series.
Jacquie Meadows is a fourth-generation Colorado native whose bloodline helped build Denver and its surrounding areas. She lives in the foothills west of Denver with her husband, two dogs, two cats, two rescue birds, and a plethora of wildlife. Her adult daughter lives nearby and inspires Jacquie daily as she blazes her own unique life path.
Jacquie’s Lighthouse Islands book series is dedicated to those readers who may not yet realize there are many choices and blessings in this thing we call life.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
THE LIGHTHOUSE ISLANDS
About the Island
BookLife Review
Vivian Attwater is the self-proclaimed “queen” of the Lighthouse Islands, off the coast of Lake Superior on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Founded by her family, the islands have become home to an array of diverse families, a development that Vivian despises. Her only goal is to restore the islands back to their “superior” inhabitants—wealthy people who look like her. By channeling the aid of dark influencers with telepathic powers, called Xicons, Vivian wields her influence on the islands’ political leaders, leaving only her daughter, Callie—and a group of high schoolers whose families have been affected by Vivian’s elitist hate—standing in her way.
This fast-paced coming-of-age story, the first in Meadows’s Lighthouse Islands series, boasts unlikely heroes and high stakes, illuminating the irreparable harm that accompanies unchecked hatred and power. Meadows writes simplistic prose that grounds an otherwise complex fantasy, though the storyline sometimes chokes on the intensity of its worldbuilding, where the human cast struggles against supernatural enemies that can feel more contrived than threatening. The plucky yet kind-hearted Callie, facing her own mother as a villain, drives this intricate tale of family dynamics and privilege, with her dependence on fellow high school students Trace, Morgan, Sudhir, Marcus, Krista, and Palo highlighting the enduring bonds of friendship that overcome adversity.
Meadows draws on the story’s supernatural elements to counterbalance its heavy themes of racism and marginalization, as the islands’ positive forces, called Beacons, use their influence to offset Vivian’s evil doings. The narrative is moving, touching on subjects that can be challenging to wade through, but Meadows creates a world with characters who are easy to root for, tackling the struggles teens often face at home while examining the weight of balancing school while planning for the future. Fans of complicated familial relationships and epic battles of good versus evil will enjoy this.
Takeaway: Imaginative coming-of-age brimming with magic and relatable characters.
In this contemporary, coming-of-age story, seven high school students with diverse backgrounds and social statuses live on five islands in Lake Superior protected by the Island Beacons. The seven face challenges with their varied histories, parents, families, hopes, dreams, goals, and choices while persevering to survive high school and get on with their lives. They, however, find themselves caught in the crosshairs of the self-proclaimed Island Queen, her conspirators—the Island Xicons, and their earthly pawns.
The queen’s deepest desire and intense goal is to remove the riffraff from her islands so they can be renovated into the high-class set of sovereign country club islands they were meant to be. Each time her efforts are thwarted, her determination to improve and purify the islands is intensified, and the Xicons’ powers are reinforced.
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