Review: Intriguing Time Travel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
Brenna goes to England with her sister after her fiancé turns up missing in a boating accident. In the Minister Church in York, she leaves the tour group to do some exploring on her on and somehow climbs into 1871. An old woman, who cleans the church, gets her a position as a maid in Dunstable Park house. When she gets hit in the head by a rearing horse, she wakes to find a beautiful pair of green eyes staring into her face. She feels an instant attraction to Garren, who has recently become an English lord, although he has grown up in Scotland. However, she can't get involved with a man, because she's got to find her purpose for being here, fulfill it, and be able to go back to her time and home again.Garren is not too sure he'll ever be able to follow all society's rules and be the earl he's expected to be. From the moment he holds the petite American in his arms and carries her into the house, he wants to forget everything and take her back to Scotland. However, she's bound in some mystery, and he wants to do the most good for others, which being an earl will enable him to do.Both characters drew me in. Brenna is struggling to understand this new, strange situation she finds herself in, and I really loved Garren. He was honest, humble, had a teasingly good sense of humor, and talked with a wonderful Scottish accent. When he declared to Brenna that he would always love her unconditionally, I melted too. There were some parts of the plot I wasn't too sure about, and some of the time travel was never explained fully, but a certain amount of rationality must be suspended for any type of fantasy. Therese Stenzel is my favorite author. I may have liked Bride of Thistleloch Castle and British Bride by Agreement better, but this one is still a cut above most other books I've read.