Review: could have been great ********SPOILERS*************
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
this had the potential to be a great story. the author is obviously very talented and has skill in creating a great story and in telling it.  however, there were too many contradictions and things that just didn't work for me.  the story itself was very enjoyable and overall comes across as a delightful book.  i loved the time travel element.  it worked well for me.  i enjoyed the fact that there wasn't just one conflict in the book, that when resolved, ends the book.  it had several twists and turns which i enjoyed, but then tended to drag out too long.  There was nothing left to the imagination when it came to sex. too descriptive and did not seem to fit the heroine at all.  it seemed like a way to fill the pages and make the book longer.  it really was an enjoyable story, just too much thrown in to otherwise give it a great rating and too many problems with it to leave you with the feeling that you just read a really great book.*SPOILERS***---for a former texas ranger and pinkerton detective, he was not very good at his job.  he was more interested in sex than protecting this poor girl!---i did not feel much connection between the mother and her long lost daughter.  i expected there would be more warmth towards her daughter, but most times i feel like she disliked her.---for a girl that was raped as a teen and raised by a very old fashioned uncle, i don't think she would be as sexually forward as she was.  she explained knowing about sex because of cable tv and women's magazines, but it doesn't fit her character that she would basically be watching and reading porn.---it was said over and over that her uncle prepared her to go back in time by teaching her the ways of the west and teaching her extensive history. however, she had no idea how to present herself or behave so that she fit into this time period.---after she got pregnant, she went through a lot of trauma.  the author repeatedly, almost too much time, reassuring us that the baby was okay.  this poor girl was given so much of some type of drug that she didn't wake for 2 days,yet the dr seemed positive everything was fine with the baby.  this got really tiresome to keep reading. maybe don't put the girl through so much drama and don't give her so much laudenum!  given her 21st century knowledge, she should have refused more laudenum when she was returned from the kidnapping instead of questioning it and then shrugging it off because the dr said it would be okay. use some of that 21st century knowledge and get your husband to lay off the cigars.  only once at the end was it mentioned he shouldn't smoke!  even that was brushed aside!---the situation with giselle and her fatehr could have still been an element in the book, but not so graphic.  i really didn't need that picture in my mind of giselle's father masturbating while jordan (who should have been looking after her welfare) and molly are having sex.  yuck.