It is not my fault – the back-blurb made me do it! It tempted me with the story of two archeologists in a Regency setting, and what good is a temptation if you don’t fall for it? I settled down for a cozy read, but was mired in a plot device that infringed upon the…
Teresa Medeiros is best known for her historical novels that span the time from Dark-Ages Ireland to Regency England. Her style is elegant and graceful and she can skillfully combine whimsy and angst in a way that few writers can. Try her Scottish novel A Whisper of Roses to see what I’m talking about. Teresa…
To coin what has definitely become cliche, Timeless Wish can best be described as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A well-paced, at times exciting story with an interesting setting is combined with characters who are a bit too flawed for my taste, who require a suspension of disbelief greater than even a time…
This is Vickie Presley’s first book and I believe she has attempted too much. Yesterday and Forever is a romance that is both a time travel and a murder mystery as well. The author spends most of her time observing all the conventions of these genre forms without developing any real originality. For example, she…
It Happened One Night is an entertaining, well-written time travel story. The heroine responds just as you’d expect a modern, independent woman when thrust into the 19th century – she doesn’t take guff from anyone. This results in lively dialogue, which I plan to reread soon. The great dialogue combines with wonderful sexual tension to…
I’m no big fan of time-travels, but Destined to Love managed to make the mechanics of the leap through time believable. Unfortunately, the rest of the tale suffered from a slew of coincidences that kept me from truly enjoying it. Dr. Josie Reed is swept back from her single life in 1994 to meet the…
I had high hopes for this book, I really did. The back cover touts the book as a gentle love story about a woman who gets along better with animals than people, and teaches the hero to love. I adore these types of stories. Unfortunately, Untamed Time doesn’t deliver the goods. The story starts when…
Some romances (and other fiction, for that matter) surround the plot with detail – describing surroundings, people, customs, and quirks to make the story true to the location. Admittedly if not done carefully, this can bog a book down, but done right, it can sweep a reader into the location of the book enough to…
Love Once & Forever is the uninteresting tale of a woman who travels back 500,000 years in time to the lost civilization of Atlantis. It features a slow-moving plot, boring main characters, purple prose galore, and a hard-to believe premise that is completely full of holes. There are a couple of intriguing secondary characters, but…
When I first picked up Looking For A Hero by Patti Berg, I thought, “Oh no, a time travel romance set in modern day.” It’s been some time since I’ve read a contemporary romance that struck me as a good story. It’s been even longer since I’ve read a time travel that actually managed to…
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