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beastreader's review
3.0
The Executive Guild is in charge of supervising the afterlife of artist. They have learned about Campbell “Cam” Stratford. Ms. Stratford aims to release a fictography about the famous artist, Van Dyck. What Cam is saying about Van Dyck could ruin his reputation as people knew him. The Guild wants Peter Lely to stop Stratford from releasing the fictography.
Cam was working on the Van Dyck piece, when all of a sudden she felt a weird sensation. The next thing she knows, she is nude. Cam realizes that she is not alone in the room. There are many other nude women. Cam escapes in search of some clothes, only to bump into Peter. Peter is known as a bit of a playboy. When Cam becomes Peter’s newest muse... things start to heat up.
Flirting with Forever is a fun, upbeat, historical, romantic read. This book started out good but it sort of fizzed a bit in the middle for some reason. The chemistry between Cam and Peter didn’t explode for me. I expected more fireworks then I got. Though, I did laugh several times through out this book. Cam was a bit of a klutz. Peter may be a play boy but he has a heart of gold. Flirting with Forever was not a bad introduction to a new author in Gwyn Cready.
Cam was working on the Van Dyck piece, when all of a sudden she felt a weird sensation. The next thing she knows, she is nude. Cam realizes that she is not alone in the room. There are many other nude women. Cam escapes in search of some clothes, only to bump into Peter. Peter is known as a bit of a playboy. When Cam becomes Peter’s newest muse... things start to heat up.
Flirting with Forever is a fun, upbeat, historical, romantic read. This book started out good but it sort of fizzed a bit in the middle for some reason. The chemistry between Cam and Peter didn’t explode for me. I expected more fireworks then I got. Though, I did laugh several times through out this book. Cam was a bit of a klutz. Peter may be a play boy but he has a heart of gold. Flirting with Forever was not a bad introduction to a new author in Gwyn Cready.
heidenkind's review
2.0
This book was really dumb. But it did only take me a day to read, so... there's that.
bibliocat08's review
This is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. The plot didn't even make sense.
pussreboots's review
2.0
The Blog Critics Books post sums up my feelings about Flirting with Forever by Gwyn Cready perfectly: I should have read the pitch more closely. The pitch didn't have cover art, which would have made it obvious that it's a bodice ripper, so I went on the time travel description alone. Big mistake.
In the present day there's Campbell "Cam" Stratford, an art historian and author, with a scandalous "fictographies." Then in the afterlife there's Peter Lely, once famous artist, who is now tasked with stopping Cam by any means possible.
To bring the two together, a web search, opens a time portal sending Cam back to Lely's time when he was portrait painter for Charles II. Cam makes up a bunch of lies to buy herself some time but ends up being really quickly seduced by Lely.
And it goes down hill from there. Somehow Cam and Lely both gain control over this unexplained time portal. With no explanation of how it works it becomes just a convenient way of switching locations. There's similarly little in way of motivation for Cam to hook up with Lely. Sure he paints well, and sure her fiance might be more trouble than he's worth, but she goes from scared to seduced too quickly.
The parts that aren't time travel or sex are lengthy scenes of painting. This is the part of the book that one reviewer on GoodReads describes as The Girl with the Pearl Earring with severe brain damage. While I personally wouldn't go that far, it did read like a whole bunch of filler.
In the present day there's Campbell "Cam" Stratford, an art historian and author, with a scandalous "fictographies." Then in the afterlife there's Peter Lely, once famous artist, who is now tasked with stopping Cam by any means possible.
To bring the two together, a web search, opens a time portal sending Cam back to Lely's time when he was portrait painter for Charles II. Cam makes up a bunch of lies to buy herself some time but ends up being really quickly seduced by Lely.
And it goes down hill from there. Somehow Cam and Lely both gain control over this unexplained time portal. With no explanation of how it works it becomes just a convenient way of switching locations. There's similarly little in way of motivation for Cam to hook up with Lely. Sure he paints well, and sure her fiance might be more trouble than he's worth, but she goes from scared to seduced too quickly.
The parts that aren't time travel or sex are lengthy scenes of painting. This is the part of the book that one reviewer on GoodReads describes as The Girl with the Pearl Earring with severe brain damage. While I personally wouldn't go that far, it did read like a whole bunch of filler.
rosetyper9's review
4.0
I love time-travel romances, I have always had a special place in my heart for them since I read Teresa Medieros' 'A Touch of Enchantment' so when I get the opportunity to read a new one, I definitely go for it. As I started reading this book there were a few things that caught me off guard from the beginning, the cover, OMG I love the cover, it's beautiful. Next, the names of the characters, Ms. Cready definitely doesn't fall back on the old standbys...there is a guy in the book named Jacket for goodness sake. Then, that Cam is definitely not the conventional romance heroine, she is quirky, witty, hilarious, clumsy, and all around a big mess but I think that is what makes her so endearing to the reader.
The plot is excellent, always something new going on, although I would have shoved my sister in a bag and threw in a lake if she treated me that way, no doubt about it. I love Peter Lely, he is an all around romantic and makes me think of Mr. Darcy a bit. I did have to catch myself doing the skimming thing a couple of times but not too often. This is an excellent book and I adore it, now I must go find Gwyn's other books because they look intriguing as well. Titles are 'Tumbling Through Time' and 'Seducing Mr. Darcy'. Definitely read this book, it is great, you will definitely fall in love with Peter and Cam.
The plot is excellent, always something new going on, although I would have shoved my sister in a bag and threw in a lake if she treated me that way, no doubt about it. I love Peter Lely, he is an all around romantic and makes me think of Mr. Darcy a bit. I did have to catch myself doing the skimming thing a couple of times but not too often. This is an excellent book and I adore it, now I must go find Gwyn's other books because they look intriguing as well. Titles are 'Tumbling Through Time' and 'Seducing Mr. Darcy'. Definitely read this book, it is great, you will definitely fall in love with Peter and Cam.
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