Review: Time Travel, clever twists, an aging hippy as a supporting actor in Historical Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2012
The description was interesting and had things that hooked me into wanting to read it but I put off seriously considering this book for several visits to the book page on Amazon, because the cover implied it was the kind of book I wouldn't necessarily be interested in. However, it came up as a freebie a while ago and I decided to quit vacillating over it and just get it and read it.It was the right book at the right time, for me. Tara, the leading lady in this time-travel romance, is a grad student in Irish history, working at a rural radio station. During a severe thunderstorm she and another radio station employee are repairing the station transformer when lightening strikes through the transformer and both are transported through time and space to 1800s Ireland (though the two are separated for quite a number of pages to come).She is rescued from a bad situation by a masked man, and deposited at the castle of Lord Dillon who has been fending off a political blackmail scheme by the local sheriff who wants him to marry his daughter, by saying he's expecting his fiance from America any day now. He takes up the mystery woman as his ficticious fiance and she goes along with it, having suffered amnesia and being none the wiser to the truth.There is quite a lot of historical information about Ireland vs. England of the time, intrigue involving the leading man and his undercover activities in the Irish Rebellion, along with a bit of paranormal theme involving Faeries. He actually thinks she is Fey, sent to save him from his enemy's clutches. She is simply confused in her amnesia.Her coworker from the radio station does find her and takes on the roleplay of her Father accompanying her to Ireland but them having been separated in the shipwreck of the night they 'arrived'. Lord Dillon thinks the Fey have sent both a bride and her father. It's rather comical drama and I enjoyed that part very much. Not just a straightforward canned romance story.Indeed this book departs from the expected formula and there is a very cool bit of paranormal spice added to the whole package towards the end.Time Travel, clever twists, an aging hippy thrown back to the old days, a sharp minded sharp tongued woman (despite her amnesia), and a wonderful paranormal surprise along with historical romance. Despite my initial misgivings and dithering to finally read this, I am very glad that I did. It wasn't perfect, but it was very good in my opinion.