Customer Reviews

Anywhere You Are

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I enjoy time-travel romance and I enjoyed this book a lot, but I have some criticisms: WHERE is the editor/proofreader? Some of the story pertains to knowing how to pull on the cord of a parachute - not "chord". There were a few other bloopers, too, and I agree with another reviewer about the preachiness about the Indians and other politically correct issues. Also, we never got the rest of the story about what happened to Harmon or the mystery about what the US military was up to. I did enjoy the story of the relationship of Mairie and Jack very much, and will definitely read more by Constance O'Day Flannery.

No one writes Time Travel Like Constince O'Day-Flannery. Again you can feel something deep inside as you read her storys, something deep inside your soul.

My headline just about sums this book up. When I bought it I was excited that Ms. O'Day-Flannery had returned to pure time-travel. I cheered too soon.

It's been a month or so since I read the book and I can honestly say I have trouble remembering what it was all about. I do know I found it incredibly dumb that the "reason" our heroine was transported back in time was because of some freak accident the government was working on that she didn't know about.

I also found it absurd and insulting to Navy Seals that the Seal sent back in time to bring the heroine back was so obsessed with his "mission" that he wouldn't let her bring with her a plant that might cure her brother, all because he had his "orders." Please! Ms. O'Day-Flannery made him sound like some kind of Nazi!

Don't bother with this book. Try either Timeless Passion or Second Chances. With those, Ms. O'Day-Flannery does much better.

We all feel it when first in the throes of love and passion. We believe we can not go on living without our significant other sharing fully, completely in our lives, and we buy the package, the illusion of timeless love. Constance O'Day-Flannery captures the essence of the power of romance, the energy of romance, and the burning passion of romance that seems able to cross all barriers, even time itself. In this novel she threads the romance of the old west, with the wonder of present day Las Vegas. She brings together two hapless victims to a quirk of physics, causing her to be transported first to the old west version of Las Vegas, Nevada. When she and her new found lover stumble back into the future well.... all manner of things happen and as always she makes it entertaining as well as thought provoking.

She includes great suspense and mystery, and causes the reader to press forward, wondering at every step of the way, paragraph by paragraph where she is going with this story, and HOW she will resolve it. She is truly the Queen of Time Travel Romance and one of my all time favorite authors. I recommend her most current works as well. I expect to see her name on the New York Times Best Seller List again, and again.

Phil Hergett

With her beloved brother Bryan dying from leukemia, Mairie Callahan wants to spend as much time with him as possible, which is why she is skydiving out of a plane over Las Vegas. However, as she drops towards the earth, she cannot find her sibling, but worse yet, the city skyline has vanished. When she lands she finds herself in 1877 Paiute Territory under the protection of Jack Delaney, a combat fatigued Civil War vet, suffering from depression. She soon learns from Jack that the Indians believe they have a plant that cures cancer. Before she can think what to do next, Navy Seal Specialist Fourth Class Robert Lee Harmon arrives to bring her back to her present. He explains that computer error led to the expansion of an experiment that ultimately sent her into the past.

He tells her no traces of her, including DNA, must be left behind. Jack and Mairie hide the plant in a container that can be retrieved in the next century. Jack and Mairie are in love and he decides to leap with her. Now in 1999 America, the Feds chase after the duo, who travel to retrieve the remnants of the cancer cure.

ANYWHERE YOU ARE is a non-stop, action-packed time travel romance that will excite sub-genre fans. The lead protagonists are a charming pair and the secondary ensemble propels the story lien forward. Though readers will be a bit disjointed and disappointed with the need of incredible leaps of logic much greater than Mairie's sky diving, the plot has Constance O'Day-Flannery's flair for story telling. The time-travel romance audience will take great pleasure from this exciting two-way trip.

Harriet Klausner

I really wanted to love this book, not just like it. The hero and heroine are wonderful characters, but they are done great disservice by the author's tendency to veer off track into jarring, not-too-subtle ranting against the plight of American Indians to society ills. These tend to be very distracting and sometimes irritating.

I'm also rather irritated by the saintly depiction of American Indians. I'm not saying these people aren't good or anything, but the author wrote them in such saccharine sweet tones that all that is missing are halos around their heads. Something like the Care Bears, where everyone is huggy-wuggy and lovey-dovey and ultimately, something totally unrealistic. The history of American Indians is tragic, yes, but by painting them as New Age philosophy-sprouting cardboard martyrs, the author is doing these regal people a disservice.

It's been several months since I read this book, but I agree with Ms. Klausner and the others who gave more favorable reviews. I didn't want to put it down and found alot of the dialog really amusing... It's definitely worth the read!

I think all of her books are fantastic. She's a great author. I particularly like her series of time travels. They're my favorites. I have all of her books and would like to know if she has anything new out soon. Keep up the good time travel novels-Constance!

I have read a couple of books from this author and found that her characters are flat and boring. The story lines tend to drag on and on without going anywhere, completely no punches. I would defintely skip this one.

This was okay, though not for my keepers shelf. I liked the main characters, there was some pretty good humor, just not a lot of action.