Review: Started great...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2012
Who doesn't love a good time-travel romance? When modern day women meet up with those bold, daring Confederate soldiers, anything can happen!Marissa McClafferty is a nurse who has just had her heart broken by her fiancé who tossed her aside for another woman. As she heads home from work, making plans to move her things out of his studio, she wishes for a new life. Moments later, she finds herself stranded on the side of the road. She makes her way to an old farmhouse to call for help only to be engulfed by an eerie mist that transports her through time to 1863 and into the arms of the dashing Dr. Craig Langston.Edge of Time begins with a great premise. Marissa wants to get home and the widow in the farmhouse was transported back in time herself twenty years earlier. While she searched for a way back to her time, she must come to grips with living in a new time period. However, the story has quite a few areas where the author gave up too soon (spoiler alert).First, Marissa falls into Craig's arms quite easily within just a day of meeting him and one walk. I get that a woman of 2012 doesn't share the same ideas of propriety as they did in 1863 but this makes Marissa far less appealing to me. Second, she gives up searching for her way back early in the story. She refuses to become involved with Craig because she wants to return home and at the first sign of trouble, she gives up. It doesn't seem consistent with her previous actions. Also, Kristen's "giving up" at the end hardly seemed to be something she would have done based on her previous conniving plans.Since I mentioned the "trouble," the entire scenario of the killer in the woods seems like a contrived plot tactic to force Marissa and Genie into town, and closer to Craig. It never really resolves other than finding out who the man in the woods is. There is no real motive for why he was there and suddenly, you are given a glimpse of a devious character you have been led to believe was "good" throughout the story.With those things pointed out, I have to say that I loved some of the characters. Genie was fun to read and she had real personality as did Kristen Jamison. Ms. Blue often writes from the character's point of view and does a great job at conveying emotional turmoil and trial which is what carried this story. Where the plot was lacking, character shone through.