Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance [Paperback]

Sarah Woodbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2011

From The Kindle Book Review:

While a time-travel romance, the relationship between Meg and Prince Llewlyn of Wales is not cliché. It's truly two people struggling to overcome their different backgrounds and the current political climate of 13th century Wales to follow their hearts. The completely fresh storyline of a Daughter of Time is one of the strongest aspects of this story. 

Daughter of Time is a sweetheart style romance in that the sexual scenes take place off stage, and an enjoyable look at chivalry in a way that explains how functional it was for the time period, and not just a cliché romantic notion modern readers have about knights in shining armor. 

Overall, I give this book 5 stars and recommend you grab a copy or at least download a sample for yourself.

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Daughter of Time is appropriate for readers from young teens to adults and is a prequel to the After Cilmeri series: 

A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike ... 

A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg's life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales ...  

Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales--and create their own history that defies the laws of time.

Other books in the series include Footsteps in Time, Winds of Time, Prince of Time, Crossroads in Time, Children of Time, and Exiles in Time.

**A note from the author: I am so happy to be able to share with you this prequel to the After Cilmeri series.  I created Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time first, and only wrote Daughter of Time after so many readers wanted to know how the story began. Meg's journey is continued in Footsteps in Time and Winds of Time, a novella that is meant to be a companion to the series. Happy reading!

Editorial Reviews

Review

From The Kindle Book Review:

The completely fresh storyline of a Daughter of Time is one of the strongest aspects of this story ... a sweetheart style romance in that the sexual scenes take place off stage, and an enjoyable look at chivalry in a way that explains how functional it was for the time period, and not just a cliché romantic notion modern readers have about knights in shining armor. 

Overall, I give this book 5 stars and recommend you grab a copy or at least download a sample for yourself.

From the Author

Books by Sarah Woodbury

The After Cilmeri Series: 
Daughter of Time (prequel)

Footsteps in Time (Book 1)

Winds of Time (novella)

Prince of Time (Book 2)

Crossroads in Time (Book 3)

Children of Time (Book 4)

Exiles in Time

The Gareth and Gwen Medieval Mysteries:

The Bard's Daughter

The Good Knight

The Uninvited Guest 

The Fourth Horseman (June 2013) 

Arthurian and Paranormal Historical Fantasy:

Cold My Heart:  A Novel of King Arthur

The Last Pendragon

The Pendragon's Quest

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461069335
• ISBN-13: 978-1461069331
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (242 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With two historian parents, Sarah couldn't help but develop an interest in the past. She went on to get more than enough education herself (in anthropology) and began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded she let them out. While her ancestry is Welsh, she only visited Wales for the first time while in college. She has been in love with the country, language, and people ever since. She even convinced her husband to give all four of their children Welsh names.

She makes her home in Oregon.

Please follow her online at www.sarahwoodbury.com

Sarah's books include:

The After Cilmeri Series:
Daughter of Time (prequel)
Footsteps in Time (Book 1)
Winds of Time (novella)
Prince of Time (Book 2)
Crossroads in Time (Book 3)
Children of Time (Book 4)
Exiles in Time

The Gareth and Gwen Medieval Mysteries:
The Bard's Daughter
The Good Knight
The Uninvited Guest
The Fourth Horseman (June 2013)

Arthurian and Paranormal Historical Fantasy:
Cold My Heart: A Novel of King Arthur
The Last Pendragon
The Pendragon's Quest

Amazon Author Rankbeta 

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#72 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy

#91 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy

#72 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy

#91 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

105 of 111 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweeping Historical Fantasy March 28, 2011

By Eille

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I love medieval history, and I loved the blend of history, romance, and time-travel fantasy in this book. Meg is a young single mother of a two and a half year old girl. She's endured an abusive relationship with her now-dead husband, the father of her daughter, and has little reason to trust men or believe in romance--until she's hurled back through time to the court of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. Coming from the future, Meg is able to warn Llywelyn of the dangers in store for him and help him navigate the complex politics of the time. I loved how historically based this book was and what a vivid picture it gave of the time period, but I think my favorite part was watching Meg grow as a character. Medieval Wales wasn't a place where women had great power--and yet it's in exactly this setting that Meg truly overcomes her past and grows into the strong, capable women she was meant to be. I can't wait to read the rest of the series!

167 of 182 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars ouch October 10, 2011

By AJ

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I have great respect for authors, as they put so much time and energy into such a great feat as writing books. Therefore, it is with great regret that I have to say that this book leaves much to be desired. I believe it had great prospects, as the idea of a modern, troubled woman traveling back in time with her toddler, only to meet up with a great historic figure - well, this really grabbed me. But the writing was so challenging. I managed to get 2/3 of the way through, and then I couldn't take it anymore. This book had a great start. In fact, I read the sample first, became quite intrigued, and then downloaded the book. But disappointment set in about 1/3 of the way through.

The dialogue was painful. There was no flow - it was inconsistent, confusing, and sometimes just made no sense. There were so many characters, with poor explanation of who they were - I had to look up the actual history on the internet just to figure out what the heck was happening. The chapters alternate between Meg's perspective, then Llywelyn's - which would have been interesting, except that Llywelyn's "thoughts" were laced with modern-day colloquialisms, much like Meg's- so I wasn't sure who was speaking. Llywelyn speaks of going to his "office." Did medieval princes really call it an "office?" Then later, when trying to correct Meg's way of addressing him, he states, "....if you can just tack `my lord' on there at the end...." Isn't that modern-day phrasing? I got so confused I wasn't sure if it was Meg or Llywelyn who traveled back in time.

Realism - there was none. I would expect if a 13th century Welsh prince came across a 1990's automobile sinking into a swamp with a woman at the wheel and a child in a car seat, he probably would not have figured out how to release both the seatbelt AND the child's car-seat belt in seconds flat, much less figure out how to open the doors. Wouldn't he have bashed the windows in and whipped out his knife to cut the belt? The story started to lose me here....

Character development was nonexistent. I kept re-reading passages, thinking I had missed something. Characters just seemed to change direction at the drop of a hat, and I had no idea what their motives were. The dialogue was not helpful here- in fact, it only made it more confusing.

There were several typos and grammatical errors. I guess for $0.99 I have come to expect that, but that only makes me think that there was no care for how accurate the writing was. This only confirmed my disappointment with the weird dialogue, the lack of character development, and the unrealistic meshing of 13th and 20th century perspectives. I am a fan of time travel stories, but I have read far better.

54 of 57 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Enticing Tale of Time Travel May 2, 2011

By Geraldine Evans

Format:Kindle Edition

REVIEW by Geraldine Evans

DAUGHTER OF TIME a stand-alone novel in the world of the After Cilmeri Series. - A TIME TRAVEL NOVEL

I'll start by saying I've never read a time travel novel, so was half waiting for Dr Who to appear! Needless to say, he didn't, but a young widow named Meg and her daughter, Anna, did. Freed by the death of her husband from a violent marriage, Met and her daughter have gone out for the mundane buying of ice-cream when their car skids on some ice. When she wakes up, Meg finds she has flown through some kind of time curtain and is in thirteenth Century Wales, having been rescued from her swamp-sinking vehicle by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales himself. It doesn't take long for the pair to fall in love.

Thanks to her previous study of Welsh history Meg is able to save him from a premature death. They go through a peasant's form of plight-troth and become man and wife. But love can't conquer all, not in this world. Many dangers beset them from Llywelyn's jealous brother, Dafydd to warring Marcher lords, and which, through them, threaten Wales's very independence from an increasingly voracious England.

I very much enjoyed this book. I found Sarah Woodbury wove a telling tapestry of thirteenth Century Welsh royal life.. She had me caught up in the tale and in believing it is possible to pass through centuries to an earlier time. She has persuaded me to try more in this genre. Heartily recommended.