Review: REVIEW - The Show
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
As posted at THE READING CAFEhttp://thereadingcafe.com/john-heldt-northwest-passage-seriese-combined-reviews/5 out of 5 for this reader folks!Oh John A. Heldt, how you write a beautiful story.  I completely loved this book and how it all tied together into a continuation of the first book in this series called The Mine.  The Show is a continuation of Joel and Grace's story but this time it is told from Grace's POV.This book begins with Grace's determination to make her way to year 2000 to be reconciled with her soul mate Joel.  She has come to terms that he was in fact from the future and her journey through the mine was an absolute joy to read.  It was wonderful to have some pieces filled in and revisiting little details that where mentioned in the first book and how she interacted with all these details.Once Grace finds herself in year 2000 she is befriended and cared for by other kind souls (much like Joel was in The Mine) and is assisted in her reconciliation by none other than the very friend she had in 1941.  Reading Grace's and Joel's realization that they get their happily ever after was a bit of a tearjerker!  LOL  Fast forward a couple of years, they are now married, have twins and they are madly in love.  Grace has adapted to the future beautifully .. all is well!One night Grace and Joel attend a retro movie night (kinda funny considering it doesn't feel so retro to our couple) AKA "The Show" and Grace finds herself traveling through another time portal landing her in 1918.  Well let me tell you, our Graceful Grace isn't so graceful when she realizes paradise is no more.  She FREAKS OUT!  Can't say I blame her as now nothing is certain.  She has a husband and children in the future and tries desperately to return to only to find out it's pretty much impossible.  She is thrown into an epidemic (Spanish Flu), and reunited with family she thought she had lost forever.  She gets to experience her parents young and falling in love (her parents died too early in Grace's life) and become close and in love with another man (although not her soul mate) Captain Walker.  Captain Walker seems to ease the ache that Grace feels in her tornado of a life and it was quite endearing reading these two together.  BITTERSWEET!John A. Heldt is so eloquent in his words.  His writing absolutely flows and captures a beautiful picture in the reader's mind.  I dare say he is the best self published author that I have ever come across.  He effortlessly weaved a continuation of a time travel story from one book to another and added more depth to it all the while keeping the reader completely captivated.Once again, like The Mine, this isn't just a love story.  I appreciated the love story, but again it was the history and the cast of characters that kept me intrigued and that were highlighted in this book.  Once you start reading, you will have a trouble putting it down! WINK!So... do Joel and Grace once again reunite or has Grace resigned herself to the fact that she has time traveled twice in her life and it's all for a reason?!  Does she concern herself with changing anything in the past only to negate the future??  You'll have to pick up a copy of The Show to find out!  LOLHAPPY READING! :)Copy provided by The Reading Cafe for an honest review! :)