Review: I must be missing something. This was awful.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
I could only stomach the first quarter of these book, and it's a short story! I think the time travel angle could be successful, if done more realistically. The book starts with the Heroine, Izzy, locked in a closet by her fellow tour group, because they are catty (really? what adults on a tour group would do this?!?). Then, after Izzy is transported back 200 years and meets the hero, they establish the fact that she is from the future in about 30 seconds. Then they go on to talk about her name, his name, and the name of the cat. But the very worse part is, apparently in order to drum it into us that they are from two different time periods, the author has her Izzy (a crude American, of course) speak as if she's a teenage valley girl. So, after five minutes of inane conversation, littered with language nuggets like "yeah", "don't go there", "cut the act", and "cat got your tongue" by the classless Izzy, the Duke seems to fall madly in love. Huh?? With what?!? If the author had even implied that the H & h discussed how this time travel had happened, what the future was like, etc., I might have tried to stay with the book, but this was just excruciating to read.Edited review: I noticed I got 10 unhelpful votes within hours of posting my review for this obscure book. Fortunately, I do not review to win friends, only to warn or encourage others regarding how they spend their hard earned cash. And you will note that ALL of my reviews are Verified Purchases, while many of the others are not. Just learned this and won't fall for buying a book positively reviewed by the majority not verified (i.e., author's family and friends).