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A Love Through Time (Time Passages)

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This is my favorite type of time travel in which both main character travel through time in order to learn a lesson. This is an incredible debut for Ms. Brisbin. Her writing style is so vivid and emotional that I felt as if I'd been pushed through the arch right along with Maggie and Alex! I experienced their confusion, fear, and pain, their courage, joy, and love. I watched as Alex's true character emerged and his emotions blossomed, up close and personal. I laughed, cried, and hurt for the two of them. The touching epilogue was the perfect ending to a perfectly delightful read! I highly recommend this novel and wait with baited breath for the November sequel "A Matter of Time". --------- Leslie Tramposch - Pghromance

In New Jersey, school teacher Maggie Hobbs, who just split from her boyfriend, is looking forward to spending her summer vacation on a tour of Scotland. At the same time also in the Garden State, Alex MacKendimen, whose girlfriend just left him, is planning to accompany his beloved Aunt Jean to Scotland in order to attend the clan gathering in Dunnedin. This is the first trip to Scotland for both Americans.

Near Dunnedin, Maggie's tour bus breaks down. She attends the clan gathering where she meets the mysterious Mairi and ultimately Alex. The fellow Americans are attracted to each other, but admit there is no time to get acquainted until after they return to the states. Mairi insists they have all the time in the world and pushes them through a magical arch that tranport the pair back several hundred years to a Medieval Dunnedin. Now the twentieth century travelers need to depend on one another to survive and find a way home. During this trek, they fell in love.

Readers beware of A LOVE THROUGH TIME because one must prepare for a paradigm switch. Debut author Terri Brisbin successfully sends both lead protagonists back through time's portal, thereby, geometrically increasing the fun of a crisp story line. Maggie and Alex are a wonderful pair as each seeks something better out of life, while the support cast adds authenticity to both centuries. If this novel is any indication, Ms. Brisbin has a long future ahead of her, hopefully with more tales involving Mairi the marvelous matchmaker.

Harriet Klausner

This is an interesting debut novel and a welcome addition to the time travel genre. It is a well told tale that evokes another time, long ago. It is also a tale of love.

Two people from New Jersey, each on the run from a broken romance, go to Scotland. Maggie Hobbs is there on vacation. Alex MacKendiman is accompanying his aunt to a gathering of his clan near Dunnedin, Scotland. Maggie and Alex meet at the clan gathering. They also meet a mysterious stranger, Mairi, who pushes them through a portal in time. Before they know it, they are in a medieval Scotland of six hundred years ago.

As luck would have it, Alex is the doppelganger of a long ago ancester of the same name. It appears that his ancestral namesake has been visiting in England for some time. When Alex and Maggie arrive in medieval Scotland, he is mistaken for his returning ancester, who also happens to be the laird's son. Maggie is taken to be his leman, as Alex has been betrothed to Anice, daughter of the head of the MacNab clan.

From here on in, their adventures fly fast and furious, as Alex and Maggie struggle to fit it and get the lay of the land in order to survive, until they can figure out a way to return to the present. There are many pitfalls to avoid and many customs to adopt in order to make their trek through time a safe one. In the process, they fall in love.

What happens to Alex and Maggie is entertaining and interesting, as they traverse a veritable minefield of differences between past and present. It is only through their growing love, however, that they will find the link necessary to effect a return to their time. Will they make it? Read this book and find out. You will not be disappointed.

A bit of a take-off on the Outlander premise of a circle of "singing stones" that can transport through time, albeit these stones were removed from the circle and built into an archway of a building. Our hero and heroine meet at a clan gathering, get shoved through the archway and are transported back through time. I could never figure out what year it was, I recall Edward III being mentioned as England's king, and King David being the son of Robert the Bruce, so my research says sometime in the 14th century.

Anyway, our hero Alex is a double for the laird's son and heir Alesander who has been away for five years in London with the Scott king David (who was being held as a hostage by the English). So he is mistaken for the young heir, and Maggie is taken as his leman (mistress). Lots of ups and downs follow our H&H as they try to understand what's happened, and try to find their way home without being killed for pretending to be what they're not.

All in all very entertaining, but you do have to suspend some disbelief. I am sorry, but no man of the our times (most especially an ACCOUNTANT!!) could go back to the 14th century and pick up a sword and even have a clue to what he was doing, let alone convince his peers that he was adept at it. Also, the author wrote the story so that Alex picked up a Scottish brogue and Gaelic when they went back in time, but no one noticed Maggie's lack of English accent, let alone that she was from New Jersey. For those and a few other discrepancies I give it 4 stars instead of 5.

Note: if you are looking for something for a younger reader, this would not be a good choice. It's a bit of a bodice ripper, with more sexual content and descriptions than is appropriate for a young teen.

Terri Brisbin's time travel is different--both hero and heroine are transported in time. Their story is very special and truly kept me riveted . . . the ending was so exciting I couldn't put it down! Read and enjoy!

I *loved* this book!! The premise is a definite change of pace from the typical time travel in that the hero and heroine are both sent back in time and they have to earn their way home. There are lots of surprises (I won't spoil them) once Maggie and Alex arrive in Dunedin and the pace never flags. Ms. Brisbin paints an accurate portrait of the social attitudes and mores of the times, while still managing to use a gentle hand and keeping a clear focus on the romance. I can't say enough about this book! What a terrific debut!!

I normally stay away from time travel romances, but A Love Through Time really caught my interest and kept it. I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable tale with engaging characters and a storyline with enough twists and turns to keep the reader on quite a ride. If you don't believe that time travel is possible, you'll be so charmed and drawn into this story that you'll willingly suspend that disbelief and quickly read through to see what happens. It's a keeper on my Kindle for sure!

This is an interesting debut novel and a welcome addition to the time travel genre. It is a well told tale that evokes another time, long ago. It is also a tale of love.

Two people from New Jersey, each on the run from a broken romance, go to Scotland. Maggie Hobbs is there on vacation. Alex MacKendiman is accompanying his aunt to a gathering of his clan near Dunnedin, Scotland. Maggie and Alex meet at the clan gathering. They also meet a mysterious stranger, Mairi, who pushes them through a portal in time. Before they know it, they are in a medieval Scotland of six hundred years ago.

As luck would have it, Alex is the doppelganger of a long ago ancester of the same name. It appears that his ancestral namesake has been visiting in England for some time. When Alex and Maggie arrive in medieval Scotland, he is mistaken for his returning ancester, who also happens to be the laird's son. Maggie is taken to be his leman, as Alex has been betrothed to Anice, daughter of the head of the MacNab clan.

From here on in, their adventures fly fast and furious, as Alex and Maggie struggle to fit it and get the lay of the land in order to survive, until they can figure out a way to return to the present. There are many pitfalls to avoid and many customs to adopt in order to make their trek through time a safe one. In the process, they fall in love.

What happens to Alex and Maggie is entertaining and interesting, as they traverse a veritable minefield of differences between past and present. It is only through their growing love, however, that they will find the link necessary to effect a return to their time. Will they make it? Read this book and find out. You will not be disappointed.

Terri Brisbin creates wonderful characters you fall in love with on the first page. The story is very interesting and the setting magical. I loved this book!

Having both "stars" of the novel travel through time together is refreshing! A great story that is very realistic as far as customs, language and behavioral qualities of the time traveled to; and the frustration, worries and determination of the couple trapped in another era. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!!!