Review: Quick steamy time travel romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2012
The story of Druid, Mine sounds a lot like the one from the first book in Kerry Adrienne's All Mine series. And it's almost as much fun the second time around. But not quite.Anya seeks out Madame Eve's services because she just wants a normal date...and she doesn't have any way of getting one when all of her time is taken up being caretaker to an old man. He's not family, it's a job. But she's traded security for any chance at her own life. Why, we don't know.Carrick is a mystery. He the druid in this story, and he's just about to take his vows as an Ovate. Vows that will cut him off from his own society, but will allow him to travel in time, something he does believe in.There's that sticky time thing again. We don't know exactly when Carrick is in time, but he's way closer Darius than to us, both in time and in location. Carrick is in what we will call Ireland, and maybe less than a century before Darius' Rome in Senator, Mine. And he has even less idea what he's in for than Darius did. But he is questioning whether he's ready to take his vows.Carrick is tending the fires the night before the Summer Solstice, just outside a standing stone circle. It's the longest night. From his perspective, one of the fay asks him if he wants one last night with a woman, before he has to be celibate forever. He's a man, of course he says yes.Anya is dropped off on in the middle of his lonely vigil. She knows she contracted for a 1Night Stand. She did not expect Carrick, or time travel.They each get one perfect, beautiful night. A glorious sunrise directly over the standing stones of the henge. And a choice that comes all too soon.Escape Rating B-: The relationship between Anya and Carrick is sensuous and beautiful, but the problem is that as a love story, this just wasn't complete for me. Senator, Mine may have needed less backstory because the Roman period is so familiar. The Celtic Druids are very mysterious, and not a lot is known. With such a short story, the problem is that not a lot is known about Carrick's background or the choices he is facing. We know he's unhappy, but why? What is driving him to this lonely life? Being ripped out of time is a desperate choice, even for love. I needed to know more to make this work as well as Senator, Mine, but I still had fun with the parts of the story that encapsulated their night by the henge.Originally published at Reading Reality.I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.