Review: Good Time Travel Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
When I started reading Always and Forever, I thought the dialogue was stilted, the characters were a bit stiff, and it was a new author's rewrite of Jude Devereaux's Knight in Shining Armor (a five-star book, by the way - if you haven't read it, do that NOW). As the story developed however, it became deeper and much more complex, and the characters relax and become fuller characters, with well-developed personalities. In Knight, the hero and heroine simply do time travel and love conquers all.  In Always and Forever, there are actually evildoers who also time travel, and are actively working - some times successfully - to keep the lovers apart.  The story involves the hero and heroine trying to stay together, working against the clock to find out who is trying to sabotage their love, and why, and how to stop them, before their time is up and they revert to their own original time periods. As with Ms. Fiore's other novel, she does a beautiful job of evoking emotion, the longing for something that can never be, and the pain and frustration of wanting a person more than life, regardless of the consequences. On that basis, this book deserves five stars. I deducted one star because, as another reviewer said, the book is really badly edited and is laced with typos, wrong verb tenses, inappropriate adjectives, on page after page, after page . . . People who still read (as opposed to listening to books on tape or watching movies) tend to read because we like and respect the written word. A book full of typos is distracting and needlessly frustrating. Please, authors, show respect for your reading audience and have your stories edited. Five-star story, in a very rough form. I recommend it anyway to those who like the complexities of time-travel romance.