Review: review of beyond forever
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
I really enjoy reading time-travel stories and the few I have read have been fairly good but this one was unique in the fact there was an added paranormal aspect of a ghost in it as opposed to just being something like an object, person from the past, place or wish sending the characters back.  I just really liked this story from Ms. Debra Dier’s!  Usually the story of going back in time just fascinates me but the explaining of how and why the character goes back in time is really why I read time travel stories.  This looks like only one of two books from Ms. Dier’s and I really hope she writes more.  Ms. Dier writes very well and the story was just so engaging it was hard to put the book down and I just got totally swept up in the story!I just loved both the emotionally scarred and very cautious but beautiful heroine Julia and the mysterious handsome Scottish laird and hero Gavin.  One misty foggy night Julia meets the ghost of Gavin pleading for Julia’s help to go back in time to 1816 to save his son.  Finally when Julia agrees and is taken back with Gavin help things don’t go exactly the way they are supposed to.  Julia ends up doing more than what is expected of her even with retrograde amnesia not only by saving everyone in the Gavin’s family but falling in love as well.  I was very upset and crying when Julia went back to her own time and just had to give Gavin up.  The story, twists/turns, plot, deceptions and the slow build of the love story between Julia and Gavin was told so beautifully I really wasn’t ready for the story to end.  Julia, Gavin even all the minor characters were just very well-developed and easily imagined despite some of them having a brief role in the book.The only thing I had a hard time understanding was how did Julia end up changing her life as well?  So I guess she didn’t meet Nathan so he never existed at the end?  After being taken back to her life and time Julia parents or her aunt and uncle aren’t dead even Helen’s husband isn’t dead they are alive and happy how did that happen that Julia changed her entire family and her friend’s husband status as well?  I guess since Gavin and Julia lives are linked then Julia and Gavin was able to change Julia entire family and friend’s husband destiny as well?  I guess I wanted a little better explanation than Julia just going back and finding things perfect and everybody alive and well with no explanation at all?  Maybe I just didn’t want the story to end really.  I still however enjoyed the book rated it five stars, will keep it in my library, can recommend it and will get more books from Ms. Dier.