Review: a light fun read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2013
I'm not a regular reader of romance novels, but sometimes the book description sucks me in.  Usually, I can't even finish, but I found this book to be good.The plot of this is straight forward--a man from the future comes to speak to an engaged woman and tells her his life and hers are ruined unless she dumps the fiancé and marries the younger him right away. This and that happens and everyone ends up living happily ever after.What I don't like about romance is the too obvious "these people are meant for each other" characters and the laser-like focus on getting them together.  If this bothers you, you might not like this book, but I think the humor overcomes the obviousness.  This book might also be called chick lit, and has in common with that genre the whole "if you just told the truth, there would be no story at all" problem.  But in this particular book, I can understand why Sasha can't tell either her parents or fiancé the truth, after all--time travel?I'm a life-long science fiction fan, so I'm very hard on non science fiction writers who take science fiction themes and screw them up.  But here, although we never find out how the time travel works, it is internally consistent.  For example, it would make a lot more sense for Future Elliott to go to Present Elliott to make his case, but the time travel rules in this book are that people you know in your own time cannot see you.  The author maintains this when Sasha visits the future and is unable to talk to her friends and family.  But, be careful, you might not want to think too long about the changing the time-line thing lest you get Schrodinger's cat thoughts and read way more into this than you should!I thought the whole Rosie sub plot was nicely resolved.  I was totally surprised at the resolution, but I should have seen it coming!!  Hints galore, but they were so deftly plotted I just didn't see ... Good work.This book is a 4.5 star, but I am rounding down because there are no breaks between scenes.  I had to reread constantly to find out where we were and who was talking.  Drove me kind of nuts--the Kindle has been around long enough for publishers to get it right.Like reviewer BlueJeanMama above, I also got a notice of a download problem.  My final page ended with "Discover more about" (presumably the author) so I think I got the entire book, and did not redownload.  (I assume BlueJeanMama and I had our fonts set at different sizes, thus the difference.) The download problem also seems to have screwed up the entire book, so I was unable to go back to check the spelling of names, sorry if they are wrong