Then and Now is a perfectly pleasant but perfectly bland time-travel romance. There is nothing at all offensive about it, but there is nothing to make the reader sit up and take notice either. I kept waiting for the book to catch fire, but it never did. At the end of it I felt like…
For somebody who doesn’t normally pick up time-travel romances on her own, I’ve sure read my share of them since joining AAR. Like any other group of books, it’s been a mixed bag, but I have to say that I had very few problems with Linda O. Johnston’s latest, set in London just before the…
Jove has apparently halted purchases of new manuscripts for the Time Passages line, which suggests that the line itself is on the verge of cancellation. It may be that there are not enough quality time travel stories out there to carry a whole line devoted to them; however, the quality of this particular book, Elizabeth…
I’m a picky reader. There, I’ve admitted it. When I pick up a book, I want professional writing, a plot that makes sense, interesting dialogue and characters that behave in a psychologically believable manner. Once and Forever has a fairly interesting plot. That, however, may very well be the only thing it has going for…
I have to admit a certain personal aversion to working historical figures into works of fiction. I am so hardhearted on this fact that I even found Shakespeare in Love, the darling of the 1999 Academy Awards, a bit hard to swallow. Still, I began Forever Rose with the high hopes that it would blend…
This book had such an intriguing premise. It seemed to have elements of Outlander, one of my all-time favorite books, and Highlander: The Series, an entertaining television show that no longer airs. What I found was a story that had promise but ultimately took too long to engage my interest. Amber MacPhee wakes up in…
This book sounded like a great idea. After all, it’s a medieval, a time-travel, and it’s set in Scotland, three potentially great items, especially to an Outlander fan like me. Unfortunately, the great premise did not carry through to make A Highlander’s Touch a great book. Lisa Stone’s life changed overnight when her father died;…
The moral of this story is: be careful what you wish for. In my case, I wished for a great book to read, and I found it! This book was so much fun, even with some plausibilty problems that weren’t really noticed until after the book was finished. I laughed throughout and even shed a…
Perhaps I wasn’t in the mood to read another time travel where an ultra-feisty, ultra-American, ultra-attitudinal chick goes back in time and tries to bring a dark, brooding, unsmiling, tormented hero from the 13th century into the 21st – or at the very least, the 14th. However, in spite of my own personal reservations, I’m…
One of my favorite books of all time is Lynn Kurland’s This is All I Ask. One of my least favorite books ever is Kurland’s Another Chance to Dream. While The More I See You doesn’t match the poignancy and feeling of the former, it (thankfully) doesn’t drown the reader in bleakness like the latter,…
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