Review: Take a Chance On This One
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2013
I am not a fan of time-travel books because I work so hard at trying to decipher the hows, whys, and wherefores (like what was Sarah Stone doing while Sarah Tawkes was inhabiting her body?  Does that mean Luke Sykes is about to have an affair with his own great-great-great grandma? How can teacher Luke Sykes exist before Sarah Tawkes does her Groundhog Day thing?) that they make my head hurt.  If I had a chance to ask the author questions about those H's, W's, and W's, I wouldn't, because I'm sure listening to the answers would make my head hurt, too.  Now if one can just forget about deciphering the time travel thing and allow one's self to go with the flow, then this was really one cool little historical drama containing everything--romance, adventure, danger, and well-drawn characters.  Even the snotty kid was real-kid, and let's face it, kids' characters are often the weakest part of many a novel.  It was smart of the author to make the protagonist a historian of that area and time period, so that she could more easily slide into her role in colonial America.  The author apparently did a lot of research to get the history right.