The Promise is a gentle time-travel story with a couple that pulls each other across time between 1888 and 2002. I really like a well-done time-travel story, and the time-travel elements in this story worked nicely. Unfortunately, the rest of the plot never caught fire in a way that would elevate the book as a…
Having just read Isolde Martyn’s dense new medieval The Knight and the Rose, I was definitely ready for something light and fluffy as a change of pace. And while To Charm a Knight was both light and fluffy, it unfortunately was not very good. Victoria Desmond’s billionaire boss, H. Walter Harrington, is a medieval buff….
This was a tough one to grade since there was a lot to like in Bethany’s Song, including the setting and lead characters Bethany James and Matthew Gray. The story also had many intriguing elements, but there were so many of them that the overall impact was diluted. And while the heroine and hero were…
Voyager, the third installment in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, is a sharp contrast to the previous book, Dragonfly in Amber. Whereas Dragonfly began and ended with Claire and Jamie separated for twenty years, Voyager, as the title indicates, is the story of Claire’s return to the past and to Jamie. After finding out that Jamie…
I spent a year and a half staring at the four installments of this story, sitting neatly on one of my shelves. Diana Gabaldon’s books are filled with plot devices I had always shied away from in romance novels. “They’re written in the first person, the heroine’s older than the hero, they’re huge,” I whined,…
If there’s a novelist whose hand with plot, character, dialogue, prose, sensuality, historical detail, humor, and emotion is very near perfect, I’d say without a qualm that it’s Diana Gabaldon. Several books after the incomparable Outlander – the one that started it all – she can still produce a 1,000-page tome without losing the sheer…
Carolyn Rose’s A Love Through Time would have been a far better story had it not been “through time.” The time travel aspect weakened the story considerably, since it really didn’t work. There is also a serious lack of chemistry between the hero and heroine, and some problematic believability issues. Despite these flaws, however, the…
It’s a bad sign when I can put a book down and not pick it up again for five whole days, especially if I start looking at my TBR longingly, and the book I’m reviewing starts to resemble a dreaded homework assignment. Unfortunately that is how An Echo in Time felt for me. I just…
Thomas McKinnon is almost too well-suited to be the hero of a time travel romance. He has degrees in both history and law; he easily made millions on the stock market so he doesn’t have to waste time at a job; and he spends his days traveling, mountain climbing, and renovating old houses. And he…
I enjoy time travel stories – it’s interesting to read about a character’s reactions when confronted with the reality of another time, and to see how an author handles the “rules” of time travel. In this case, we also get a charming heroine, a rugged hero, and an interesting plot. Talia Trahaern has a special…
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