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…
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,…
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…
Heaven on Earth is an antidote for people who are tired of reading romances full of distrust, arguments, smarmy villains, and the like. However, perhaps because of the lack of those elements, it drags at times. I’m usually glad to read a romance where the hero and heroine are able to talk, but sometimes it’s…
Susan Grant makes a strong debut with her time travel romance Once a Pirate. Her background as an USAF pilot brings authenticity to heroine Carly Callahan, who ejects into the sea 1200 miles off the coast of Spain after her plane malfunctions. When Carly is rescued, it is the early 1800’s and she is aboard…
Is this a paranormal? Is this a time travel? Is this a mystery? The answer is a little of each. A Slip in Time can be seen as a straight time travel, but here the stress is more on the process than the actual event. Whatever it is, A Slip in Time is a captivating…
Beyond Forever is a book that instantly hooked me with its charming characters, began to lose me with its repetitive and often frustrating middle, but then picked up again with a heartwarming end. Julia Fairfax arrives at Castle Dunmore in the Scottish Highlands with her orphaned niece and her grandmother and plans to spend the…
I’m willing to suspend my belief in the laws of physics and the impossibility of time travel, as long as the story’s told with panache and a dash of credibility. Add a mythical creature that’s close enough to fact, and the story’s even better. But gosh darn it, there had better be a hero I…
Some C level books are run-of-the-mill and mediocre, while others suffer from some detail the reviewer simply couldn’t tolerate. The Raven’s Lady has neither problem. Instead, it should be classified under could-have-been-excellent – which is the most frustrating category of all. Herbalist Eibhlin (or Eileen with 20th century spelling) travels to Ireland to revisit the…