Review: "stinking rose"
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2011
I enjoy time travel tales, but not in the literary company of an annoyingly bitchy, clueless heroine whom we expect to be somewhat intelligent or  perceptive about people. She's a friggin' psychologist by profession!  But she understands less than nothing about human behavior in either the present or past, and seems incapable of understanding this skill no matter how many times she's slammed in the face with a learning experience.  The hero from the past is sweet, but in a century where he would have been far more "worldly" about the opposite sex, he's unbelievably clueless about his sexual allure. Aside from that, the story is too disjointed to hold together or tie together, and the sex is so random and unaffectionate that it's hard to believe it would happen at all.  The single star is based on hope: I'd like to believe the author's skills improved in later books.