Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) [Paperback]

Hollie Van Horne (Author)

Book Description

Series: Time Travelers (Time Travelers Press) | Publication Date: September 20, 2006

Reflections of Toddsville ~ America's best selling historic romance writer, Trudy Johnson, has just one problem -- her love life! The only man she's taken to bed in the last 5 years is the photo of a Victorian man taken in 1891 that's on her bedside table. Her agent, Jennifer, thinks she needs a break after writing five books in five years. She pays for Trudy to take her summer vacation in a rustic cabin by a peaceful lake in Richfield Springs, just outside of Cooperstown, N.Y. On June 21, 1997, she falls asleep in her Richfield Spring's cabin only to awaken in the same bed one hundred years in the past -- and not alone! His name is Cuyler Carr, and he's not happy about his fishing trip, or his reputation, being ruined by her arrival. Looks like Trudy's love life is starting to pick up!

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Time Travelers LLC (September 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096745526X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967455266
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,498,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A WAY TO GET HOOKED, February 6, 2003

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Judith F. Mooney "judycaresalot" (ELKHART LAKE, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) (Paperback)

Even though this was actually the third book written in the series, Hollie Van Horne, had such a sense of continuity, she made it the first in the series, having all the details and relationships follow perfectly.

Romance writer accidentally falls through a time portal into the 1890's. Finds love and romance. Sets the background for the new Time Travelers Inc. company to be formed, for future time travel. It's a fantasy, but yet could it be real?

Hollie Van Horne sure makes you think so. I recommend buying all 6 books, reading them in a row, and continuing with all the new ones to come. The plot premise of the Time Travelers Series, leaves endless options for future books.

Become friends with Sam and Jim Cooper, Bruce Wainwright, and all the characters that you will travel with in all the books.

the best time travel romance/history/action books I've ever read. And I've read many

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best time travel-romance series on the market, June 2, 2002

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This review is from: Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) (Paperback)

I had read one or two time travel romance novels before and was vaguely interested in them. Then I met Hollie at a booksigning and decided to read the first one in the series and if I liked it, I would buy the rest of the books. This book made me feel as if I had gone into the past. When I was finished with the book, I just sat there waiting to come back to reality. I felt like I had gone on this journey to the past and now I was coming home. Landing. I was on-line in less than an hour buying the rest of the series. Now, I can't read any other time travel book because they just don't make me feel like I went there the way her book did. I will never forget Trudy or Cuyler.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So-So..., May 6, 2004

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S. Pearson "pearsonsj" (Hartford, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) (Paperback)

As an avid reader of time travel novels, I have read enough of them to know a quality book. While the main characters -- Chuyler and Trudy -- are lovable and endearing, I found the dialogue rather choppy and artifical. In addition, the suddenness at their falling in love from the beginning of the story threw me for a loop.

I found it odd how Trudy adapted so comfortably and quickly to the fact that she was 100 years in the past. Imagining myself experiencing such an unexpected turn of events, I don't think I would have handled the event so lightly. I also did not find Chuyler's quick acceptance of Trudy's time travel tale very believable. I think the author should have played out the time travel bit a while longer, to add to the possibility of it all.

Finally, I thought the kidnap scene toward the end of the book was a final, desperate attempt at making the story attention-grabbing. I couldn't wait to finish the book.

If you like fluffy time travel books, that covers storylines on the surface, this is the perfect book for you.