One of the things I look forward to in a time-travel romance is seeing how the author transports the character back or ahead in time. Sometimes they get pretty inventive. Sometimes they don’t. In Yesteryear’s Love Janet Quinn uses a stained glass window as the portal to the past/present, which I thought was a pretty…
One Perfect Knight is a sugary confection of charm and quirky humor. It is a time travel, but we travel more to Fantasyland, than to a time past. We move back and forth between the present and King Arthur’s Camelot – a Camelot that is more of a kissing cousin to Technicolor musical movies than…
The story of Camelot has many variants. Judith O’Brien gives us her version in One Perfect Knight. A magical and imaginative version to be sure. I was impressed with much of the creativity that went in to this book, but the romance doesn’t hold up as well. Julie is a senior executive at an ad…
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…
To work well, a time travel romance needs both a compelling fantasy story with a plausible reason and device for the time travel to occur, and a compelling romance, with all the usual ingredients that requires – likable hero and heroine, believable conflicts, and a reasonable expectation of a happy-ever-after ending. Janeen O’Kerry’s Mistress of…
Although my lips curled in annoyance a lot when reading The Reluctant Viking, I smiled almost as often. At first, I was reluctant to grade this book as low as you see above, but there are reasons to do so. At least two very major reasons and a couple of minor ones. Ruby Jordan’s husband,…
Beyond the Highland Mist could have been a good read, but instead is mired by too many torturous episodes, plot devices used by other authors in better books, and is also filled with enough purple prose to color the evening sky to indigo. All in all, instead of a delicately brewed cup of tea, debuting…
You know the old saying Be careful for what you wish. . . ? Those are definitely words of wisdom in this book. The third Earl of Dalkeith, Sidheach James Lyon Douglas is known for his prowess in the bedroom. Being devastatingly handsome is an added benefit. But unbeknowst to “Hawk,” he has brought the…
Ever hear strange sounds in the night? Ever investigate only to be relieved to find nothing there? What if you investigated, found the inexplicable source and were catapulted 150 years back into the past? And what if you discovered the one person who could give you everything you wanted? That’s the premise of Victoria Chancellor’s…
This time it wasn’t the book’s fault – it was mine. This is a sweet and humorous read that lasted me one hot bathtub’s worth of time. It is light and uplifting, and perfectly suited as a remedy for a long series of dreary reads. Unfortunately I didn’t need that remedy right now, and so…
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