Review: If you buy this bundle, block some time out because you won't be able to put them down
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
I have only one warning for potential readers, don't start reading unless you are comfortable with losing whole swaths of time. I got the seven book set for my Kindle and am currently on the fourth book. My Kindle never leaves my side on the off chance that I can read even a few more paragraphs. It is an addiction.The story is simple enough if a bit fantastical. Due to some ancient Celtic machinations, a woman Claire Beauchamp Randall is thrown back in time almost two hundred years. The neat thing about this is that the author is able to give us a historical novel with a more modern perspective. She starts in the area of Inverness, Scotland 1946 and ends up at the same hedge in 1743. Her immediate encounter with a British captain who strongly resembles her husband, Frank Randall, pushes the bounds of coincidence that would be a turn off if her writing thus far had not made the book impossible to put down.She meets a man several years her junior, not that anyone would know this since a woman of nearly 30 years of age from the 1940s is still in pretty good shape compared with the women of that age in the mid eighteenth century. Due to circumstances that keep you glued to the book, she marries this man and spends a good number of pages getting to know him and trying to return to her own time by turns. Her adventures are many and harrowing and move from Scotland to France and back again over the next three years of her life. Even when the action flags--everyone needs a breather--the voice is so engaging that you can't help but continue reading.Obviously, I would recommend these books to anyone. I don't like historical novels and usually avoid them like the plague but I love these. Love them.