Review: Escape to Me is a well-written and enjoyable read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
Eleanor and Thomas both travel two hundred years into the future for a night of passion, with the help of Madame Eve. Neither of them realize that they come from the same time and place, until they come face-to-face and Eleanor recognizes the man that she has loved from afar for years. It isn't until Eleanor leaves using the time travel device that Thomas realizes that they come from the same time, and when he returns home he'll do anything to find the woman who brought his heart back to life.I've recently come to really love time travel stories, but Escape to Me is different from the others in that time doesn't keep Thomas and Eleanor apart. Usually there is a heartbreaking realization that the two will never see each other again, and while there is the moment when Eleanor says goodbye and returns home, there is a hopefulness because Thomas is able to follow her back, and he just has to find her again.I thought it was pretty entertaining how Eleanor kept potentially revealing who she really is by how she would sometimes act and speak, and she does a very good job of pretending to be a "modern woman" to cover up for her slip-of-the-tongue moments. As with a lot of novellas, I really wish that there were more to Thomas and Eleanor's story. For a short story, Escape to Me is a well-written and enjoyable read.