Review: old shouldn't mean slow
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2012
I read a ton of books, like 25-30 a month.  I like a variety, from space/alien to prehistoric romance.  This book started off slow and had a weak spark of chemistry between the main protagonists, but the sheer lenght of time it seemed to take to get the H/H together was excruciating; not to mention the forces in deadlock to keep them apart versus bring them together.  I was really encouraged in a number of spots before the travel, but after it just seemed to get worse and worse.  Dude had no idea how to fit into the culture he was thrust into, and that sort of annoyed me.  The heroine had a clue but it didn't really help her out any.I feel compelled to say, this was a well written book, the characters are fleshed out nicely, the situations are well described, grammer and punctuation are not excessively out of whack.  I mean the structure is there I just didn't go for the slow moving story.I only got 28% through this book.  It was slow, it was beyond exasperating and didn't give me any reward for the wait.  Hello, has the author ever heard of some slap and tickle now and some self loathing later?  I bought this book months ago, I kept it on my reader for another month or two, but everytime I looked at it I just couldn't bring myself to pick it back up.  And let me tell you, that is saying something, I have read dictionaires and encyclopedias for hours on end just because I was bored.  This is the FIRST BOOK I HAVE EVER PUT DOWN, NEVER TO PICK UP AGAIN.I mean some stories will have the heroine who hates the hero but he can make her laugh or they can agree on a plan, these two don't click for me.Plus, the dillema they faced was a little too much, trying not to give away any spoilers.  I was really disappointed, I wanted to like this book, I wanted this to be my new favorite author.  I love western movies, I love time travel, but this story dried up and blew away with that dusty midwestern wind for me.