Review: Not what I thought it would be
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
I normally love a good time travel romance, but the way this one was handled left me a little cold. The "how" of ability to time travel is glossed over and accepted by everyone as simply "magic." Okay, I guess I can deal with that. What really kept getting in the way of enjoying this story was the heroine, Emmy. She is supposed to be a 28 year old Johns Hopkins trained physician but in what I suppose was an effort to show the differences between Emmy's time (2010) and the Victorian Era (1895) she travels back to, the author has her speak like a very coarse, foul-mouthed, slang spewing teenager. Emmy continues doing this even after she accepts that she has indeed traveled to the Victorian Era where she knows she is viewed as vulgar and outlandish. For a reason I cannot ascertain, the author thought it wise to have this supposedly highly intelligent woman refuse to be polite to anyone except the servants. Heroine refuses to to behave civilly, use good manners, dress in anything that might conform to the era, and generally makes a real ass of herself. Hero falls for her at the sight of her tramp stamp, although he isn't fond of her belly ring. Everyone she tells believes her time-travel tale, and no one suggests that she is crazy -- they just go with it in a time when she probably would have been locked in the attics as a crazy relative and never mentioned again. Disappointed.