Review: Perfect blend of magic, time travel, history, and romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2012
Tara is a radio DJ who is barely getting by as a graduate student studying history. Her thesis is on the Irish rebellion of 1798.  One evening as she is giving her radio broadcast, a lighting storm causes a power outage.  As she and her co-worker, Dan, try to fix the problem, the electrical circuits go haywire and she is sent to Ireland in the year of 1798 alone with no memory of who she is or how she got there.  She is assumed to be a rebel spy by British soldiers and is miraculously saved by the masked rebel leader, Captain Midnight.  She ends up in the castle of Adrian, Lord Dillon, who claIms to be her betrothed. Believing her to be a fae princess sent to save him from  being blackmailed into wedding his enemy's daughter, Adrian pushes Tara into a hasty marriage. Tara knows this is not her world.  She wants to wear jeans and listen to her iPod, not wear elaborate gowns and go to balls, but she's not exactly sure why.  Lost, alone, and grateful for Lord Dillon's attention, she readily accepts his proposal.  But life as Lady Dillon is not all it's cracked up to be, despite the attraction between Tara and her stranger husband.This story has everything I love - time travel, fae magic, and historical romance.  The mix of fantasy and reality is very well balanced.One criticism is that there are too many pop-culture references.  I find that these kind of references generally highlight the differences between the reader and the author in taste and/or age and prevent the reader from escaping into the fictional world.  And although it was a nice ending, it didn't feel as resolved as it could have.  There will likely be a sequel, but the unanswered questions have more to do with what has happened than what will happen.