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laurjo's review
2.0
Luke Nolan is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, faces execution in an electric chair, then escapes prison by being thrown back in time. This is the start of a brilliant adventure in time, right? We're going to learn how time travel is possible? There will be some badass cowboys and Luke will assume the identity of a priest to blend in? Awesome! Then Sophie enters the picture...
... and she cries and whimpers because she lost her memory, but mainly she's horny. She knows that Luke holds the answers to all of her problems, but instead of demanding answers and holding her ground, she cries and whimpers and thinks about how heavy her breasts are getting at the sight of his "manliness" under his jeans. How can she be so attracted to a priest? Why does he always have an erection around her? Why does she remember airplanes and McDonalds and wearing ladies pants but the townspeople don't know what she's going on about? Obviously Luke knows. He's lying to her and evading questions, but she trusts him with her life because he's so sexy and she wants to bang him.
Now repeat that paragraph for 378 pages and that's the gist of this book.
I could have gone my entire life without reading this nauseating, badly written sex scene.
No longer gentle, he nursed her breasts like an infant, pressing them together to sample each in turn. "Sweet," he murmured, tugging and suckling, driving her to the brink of madness. Fever consumed her. He was all-powerful. Merciless. His tongue possessed her, his hands held her hostage. She shattered into a billion dazzling fragments as completion swept through her. Something wet sprinkled across her breasts, and she realized it was the champagne again, but now she welcomed the cold droplets because she knew what would follow. Her body wept for him as he left her breast and kissed his way downward.
He nursed her breasts like an infant? No! No! No! That's not sexy!
If you're looking for a good time travel book, this is not it. If you're looking for smut masquerading as a romance that happens to be set in the past without any explanation as to how they got there, enjoy.
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... and she cries and whimpers because she lost her memory, but mainly she's horny. She knows that Luke holds the answers to all of her problems, but instead of demanding answers and holding her ground, she cries and whimpers and thinks about how heavy her breasts are getting at the sight of his "manliness" under his jeans. How can she be so attracted to a priest? Why does he always have an erection around her? Why does she remember airplanes and McDonalds and wearing ladies pants but the townspeople don't know what she's going on about? Obviously Luke knows. He's lying to her and evading questions, but she trusts him with her life because he's so sexy and she wants to bang him.
Now repeat that paragraph for 378 pages and that's the gist of this book.
I could have gone my entire life without reading this nauseating, badly written sex scene.
No longer gentle, he nursed her breasts like an infant, pressing them together to sample each in turn. "Sweet," he murmured, tugging and suckling, driving her to the brink of madness. Fever consumed her. He was all-powerful. Merciless. His tongue possessed her, his hands held her hostage. She shattered into a billion dazzling fragments as completion swept through her. Something wet sprinkled across her breasts, and she realized it was the champagne again, but now she welcomed the cold droplets because she knew what would follow. Her body wept for him as he left her breast and kissed his way downward.
He nursed her breasts like an infant? No! No! No! That's not sexy!
If you're looking for a good time travel book, this is not it. If you're looking for smut masquerading as a romance that happens to be set in the past without any explanation as to how they got there, enjoy.
tucker4's review against another edition
3.0
Time travel is not normally my cup of tea, but this was a kindle freebie and I thought I would give it a try - expand my horizons or whatever ;)
It was an enjoyable read. It was weird though, given my tendency to read historical fiction almost exclusively, to have two main characters with modern mentalities. That alone took some getting used to for me. I can't tell you the last time I read a book that mentioned McDonald's - I believe it was never. Anyway, despite that, I was able to get into it and found it interesting. The time travel thing usually hurts my head when I try to figure it out - if you make a change in the past will it change the future? Stuff like that. What really surprised me that I liked was the way that the ending was handled. I won't ruin it for anyone, but I really liked it. And its not normally something that I would appreciate. So that was a nice surprise.
It was an enjoyable read. It was weird though, given my tendency to read historical fiction almost exclusively, to have two main characters with modern mentalities. That alone took some getting used to for me. I can't tell you the last time I read a book that mentioned McDonald's - I believe it was never. Anyway, despite that, I was able to get into it and found it interesting. The time travel thing usually hurts my head when I try to figure it out - if you make a change in the past will it change the future? Stuff like that. What really surprised me that I liked was the way that the ending was handled. I won't ruin it for anyone,
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it plays on one of those eternal questions about how time travel affects the future,takethyme's review against another edition
4.0
Luke Nolan, an innocent man who was sentenced to die, travels back in time with Sofie, a doctor who lost her memory when they left the present moment.
He disguises himself as Father Salazar, a real priest from the now-future who believed in his innocence. The clergyman transported back with them and is now dead but Luke is determined to prove his innocence. Instead, he and Sofie get pulled into the town of Redemption, Colorado during a smallpox epidemic. It is the 1800's and there is no vaccine for the townspeople.
The story is interesting and continues at a fast pace. There are some engaging secondary stories while Luke learns to trust and love Sofie that add to the plot. This is one of Deb Stover's better romances that I have read.
He disguises himself as Father Salazar, a real priest from the now-future who believed in his innocence. The clergyman transported back with them and is now dead but Luke is determined to prove his innocence. Instead, he and Sofie get pulled into the town of Redemption, Colorado during a smallpox epidemic. It is the 1800's and there is no vaccine for the townspeople.
The story is interesting and continues at a fast pace. There are some engaging secondary stories while Luke learns to trust and love Sofie that add to the plot. This is one of Deb Stover's better romances that I have read.
mpmcdonald's review
4.0
I liked the characters of Luke and Sofie and the time travel aspect, but I wish more of the time travel would have come into play. Also, I felt like the bad guys were invented on the spot by the author when she needed them. There was no real motive for why they did the things they did.
I guess what saved the book for me was that I really liked Luke and the situation he found himself in where he was caught between a rock and a hard place. (Oops! No pun intended!)
I guess what saved the book for me was that I really liked Luke and the situation he found himself in where he was caught between a rock and a hard place. (Oops! No pun intended!)
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