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…
Timeless Spring is an anthology of time-travel romances. Ilike a good time-travel romance, but these did little for me. In order to develop a good time travel romance, there needs to be length and breadth, something not available in an anthology format. As such, these stories were told too quickly and romance and depth were…
When Mairie Callahan goes skydiving in the vicinity of Area 51, any X-Files fan worth the salt on her sunflower seeds knows what’s going to happen. The Men In Black will pick the exact time she bails out of the plane to try some experiments. Before Mairie can say, “Mulder, it’s me,” she finds herself…
This is one of those books that has a promising start and some interesting characters. And then it happens. Just when the hero and heroine are growing closer, they suddenly forget how to talk. Then when it becomes most important, they can’t bring themselves to say the “L” word. Another promising book gets derailed. In…
I’ve only read a handful of time travel books, but one thing I’ve noticed about those I’ve read is that some strange occurrence always sends the traveler either backward or forward in time. Some weep over crypts or touch standing stones. In the case of Anne Kelleher’s A Once and Future Love, the hero falls…
Only a very talented writer can take a man sentenced to death and turn him into the kind of hero that is not only appealing, but one a reader can actually feel sympathy for. Deb Stover certainly manages to pull off such a hero, and with panache, in Another Dawn. Luke made a big mistake…
What do you get when you mix a thirteenth century Scotsman, a twentieth century woman, three witches, one real ghost, one fake ghost, a familiar, secondary characters from another novel in the series, a stolen manuscript, a Christmas setting, and a Shakespeare-quoting parrot? A convoluted mess! Christmas Knight is a book with too much of…