Addie’s Knight sends a teacher from the year 1885 to England in 1485. Addie Shaw had been teaching her class about the Battle of Bosworth by having them reenact it, and when the reenactment gets a little too vigorous, she bonks her head on an oak tree and finds herself back in time at the castle of Sir Robert Swynton, a knight who is loyal to the Plantagents. Addie is at first in denial, then frantic to get back – she is the sole support of her 16 year old sister who is slightly fey and prone to setting fires.

The castle’s inhabitants consider Addie to be either touched in the head or a witch. Her tales of traveling through time and her telling him that Richard will be defeated by Henry Tudor do not set well with Robert to whom loyalty and honor are all. But Addie proves herself to be a wonderful manager/cook/doctor and is soon setting the castle to rights and curing everyone in sight, muting the murmers of “witch” that followed her at first.

There are some problems with this section of the book. Addie is at first worried to death about her sister, then she does not think of her for many chapters. One of the women in the castle is said to speak Old English and Addie has difficulty understanding her. That lasts only a couple of pages and then Addie has no trouble understanding the woman or being understood. Addie had informally apprenticed herself to a doctor and has a wealth of medical knowledge which she uses to treat the various ills of the people. Addie certainly knows her herbs and she even loses a patient which is a nice realistic touch. But when she performs a cesarean section on a pregnant woman having seen the procedure only once, and both mother and baby are fine, it becomes quite difficult to suspend disbelief.

This biggest problem in this section is the relationship between Addie and Robert. There is no sexual tension at all. Not that they are not likable characters, but together they are just rather blah. This remains a problem throughout the remainder of the book. Even after Addie and Richard are married, their relationship never catches fire. Generally, the Big Misunderstanding which is obligatory in so many romances, has, as a result, some heavy-duty “make-up” sex, but even after Addie and Richard have their Big Misunderstanding, the sexual tension never grew taut.

I just don’t know about Addie’s Knight and me. I normally enjoy time travel stories and one of them, Outlander is a book I cherish. But Addie and Robert were just not very interesting characters and the secondary ones were just as blah – even the irony of Addie’s sister ending up working for a fireworks’ maker didn’t work for me. I’m afraid that this book and me just never connected.