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Fanfic Review of Rocketchick's "The Tea Rose" series and "Catch Me In A Dream" series
By Ceridwyn2

So this is the first fanfic series that I've done pretty much completely on my PDA - both in terms of reading the stories and the writing of the reviews. I downloaded a freeware program called Plucker so that I can read the fanfic that I've downloaded from the internet.

RocketChick's "The Tea Rose" series followed by the sequel series, "Catch Me In A Dream" are intricately woven together in a complex set of well told stories that incorporate SG-1-Plus-One (the primary team plus Janet), the Tok'ra, Nox, Asgard, and an altogether new race of beings called the Eloyim.

The Eloyim are a race of beings that SG-1 (and oddly enough Janet, too via a series of dreams) encounter that believe they are the chosen ones. Through some intervention that they are unaware of, the Eloyim have a natural immunity to Goa'uld implantation.

It all starts with a dream Janet has about Sam talking about 'nature of the universe' type stuff. Sam tells her about how stars in themselves tell stories, about the Eloyim and how & when they lived. She was suddenly awakened by a shrill ring of her cell phone - an emergency recalling her to the base. Sam was lost off world. It wasn't until Daniel's report that mentions the Eloyim, that Janet realizes her dreams and Sam's disappearance are somehow linked. Suddenly it's Janet's dream links to Sam that provide the only clues in how to get Sam back.

They come upon a Seer who notices traits in Janet similar to himself: the ability to see and observe everything around them, and have faith in that which lies beyond and to go with it wherever it may lead her.

The stories are progressively intriguing, and while there are many original characters added to the mix, they all have a distinguishing role to play withput being overwhelming. While the primary characters remain true to themselves as in canon plus building the friendship/relationship between Sam and Janet.

Parts of the story are downright heartbreaking as Sam and the rest of the team deal with a progressive neurologic illness. However, the author doesn't get too glum. By successfully incorporating humour into different situations, she provides the reader with a break - and is typical in even some of the most dramatic and serious episodes, there is humour in the characters.

Thus SG-1-Plus-One must save the fate of the known and unknown universes yet again, by some rather unique and distraught methods that will forever change the lives of its members in ways they never dreamt possible.

[Note: Stories available in full at Author's Website.]