Karen Marie Moning is one of the few, if not only Time Travel authors I have ever been able to read. The books are fun and don’t seem to take themselves too seriously without completely mocking the genre. I open a KMM book expecting a good time, a hunky Celtic, and a curse or two…
Secrets abound among the time-traveling druidhs of northern Maine in Janet Chapman’s latest – so many secrets in fact that it is difficult to write this review without giving some of them away. Those, along with the many twists and turns the story takes, provide some entertaining moments, as well as a growing sense of…
I have always been a sucker for the old-fashioned “governess-finds-love-with-her employer” plot. Nothing fancy, you mind. Give me a plain governess, some kind of troubled aristocrat, a bit of forbidden love and chances are, I am a happily engaged reader (personally, I blame it all on Charlotte Brontë). Admittedly, this might not be the most…
It took the longest time for me to figure out what was going on with this book. The cover sports a shirtless, chain-mailed knight – ouch! – and the back cover blurb reads like a medieval. Inside, there are no dates given, but from the clothing, talk of Almack’s and finally a mention on page…
I’m always up for a good medieval romance, even though they’re proving harder and harder to find. The Last Bride is a time-travel romance rather than a straight medieval, but the setting (13th-century France) sounded most promising. It turned out to be a reasonable read, but also one that’s lacking in several areas. Claire Peltier…
How do you combine Navy SEALs, Vikings, terrorists, and a harem concubine into one story? Well, time travel of course, and Sandra Hill is known for her ability to combine the past and present into funny and a bit madcap adventures. With Hot and Heavy, the fifth book in the Viking Series II, the reader…
I think I just wanted a Jamie Fraser fix, but I should have judged Highland Magic by its awful cover. To borrow someone else’s fine turn of phrase, it features a hero I thought of as “Scottie McMullet,” kissing the throat of a woman wearing what looks like a cheap Halloween costume. After reading the…
Although A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur’s Court is labeled as a Time Travel Romance, it obviously has Chick Lit elements. While debut author Marianne Mancusi’s writing is quite readable and smooth, the first half of the book is ordinary and lacked the elements of surprise I expect from TT Romance. Worse, in order to…
This was a book that I fully expected to and wanted to enjoy, but as the story progressed, more and more reasons not to like it cropped up. Jackson Alexander Kilchurn IV is outrageously wealthy in the year 2005. After a night at haunted Seakirk Castle, he heads for Artane Castle in his lovingly restored…
Time Rogues belongs in that dreaded category: “Good Idea, Not-So-Good Execution.” There are times when the story is strong enough to keep it interesting, but too often the annoying romance and confusing premise drag it down, making it much less than it could have been. The book immediately gets off on the wrong step. As…
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