Review: Wow... Where do I begin...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
I wish I could know well before half way through a book if the target audience is for pre-teens. My fault I suppose.This book has so many flaws (needs proofing bad) in the storyline that only pre-teens might not see through them.Starting right off with the time travel theme wasn't so bad, but it went down from there. I'm not even sure how to state all the flaws without giving away the story.Okay, so I'll just say this will include ***SPOILERS***Brenna, who is on a present day tour in England, goes through some doors without her tour, goes up some stairs and ends up in the 19th century. She's apprehended by a time traveler who thinks his "purpose" is to round up time travelers so they don't ruin the time space continuum...very Star Trek.She gets away, and is told she has to find her purpose while there in order to go back. Anyway she ends up in service at an estate.  There she meets a man being trained for an English Earl position he inherits. The whole rest of the book is him pursuing her, her giving in and they smooch, he loves her, she tells him no (because she has it in her head that her purpose is to make him succeed as Earl instead of going back to his farm in Scotland), she encourages him to marry an aristocrat, then she pines for him, he chases her some more, they smooch, she pushes him away, he gets mad, she cries, she wants him to love her even though he's told her he loves her and wants to marry her, he's constantly wanting to protect her (from what?) and wants to know the secret she's keeping from him....and round and round it goes, with very little happening other than this ridiculous cat and mouse game... Meanwhile she's sending letters to her sister in 21st century America through 19th century English mail... and her sister is getting them and Brenna is getting letters back from her sister through 2 centuries of mail time travel??? That's SOME mail service!!Oh my, the whole thing is so inane. Unless you are 15 and under don't bother. Personally I may have just insulted some 15 year olds.