Knights
By Linda Lael Miller
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In Knights, Linda Lael Miller has mashed together two stories that would have been better left separate, as perhaps two books or one book and a novella. Instead, everything is crammed into 300 pages and neither story gets the treatment it deserves. The medieval romance is short-changed, as is the time-travel plot-line.

As a result, everything happens too quickly, and too often. Although this author writes wonderful love scenes, the heroine ‘s response to her hero’s simple breathing a secret to her (on their second meeting) was absurd. I could not imagine that his breath could cause a near- orgasmic response. And, although the heroine was extraordinary, the hero had not had time to discover this when he pledged his love. It seemed at times that the actual story was but a device to link together a series of sexual interludes.

The original plot had much promise. It’s the story of a 20th-century child being led back to medieval times by a woman who acts as sort of a fairy godmother. The first three quarters of the book are indeed promising, including the heroine’s first unwanted return to the future and her journey back again in time. But what transpires between then and her final trip “home” is so horribly filled with death and destruction that this reviewer frankly lost interest until nearly the end of the book.

As entertaining as the first 200-plus pages and the two closing chapters were, the pages in-between managed to completely destroy the romance. The author literally ruined the story in an attempt to jump on the time-travel bandwagon.

This book is being released as a hardback for $22.00. It is not worth that much. Wait until the paperback version is released if you have to buy it – better yet, wait until it hits the used book stores.

Reviewed by Laurie Likes Books

Grade: D

Book Type: Time Travel Romance

Sensuality: Hot

Review Date: 01/05/96

Publication Date: 1996

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  3. excellent book: interesting, funny dialogs, deep understanding of each character, interesting secondary characters, and also sexy.

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