Review: Disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2012
I was prepared to really love this book since it seemed to have all the elements that I enjoy. Jesse was indeed a terrific -- and sexy -- hero and Samantha was an admirable and likable heroine. Also, the dialogue was very well-done. However, the story itself had too many things that simply came out of nowhere and/or just didn't make sense. The beginning started out really well but then you have a sentence where Samantha is walking barefoot in 1871 having just parted from Jesse and the next paragraph has Samantha back in 2007 weeks later about to enter an auction house (that just happens to be owned by an old friend of her parents that knows all about the time-travel). Later on in the story when Jesse is badly beaten up and Samantha manages (very unbelievably!) to rescue him, they almost immediately make love. While I've never been beaten up, I was in an accident where I had a broken rib and was very cut up and bruised and I can assure you that I would not have been able or willing to engage in ANY physical activity right afterwards, no matter how much in love I was! I don't want to give away the ending so I'll just say that the same problem is there, too. If you are looking for a good romantic fantasy, this is not the book to choose.