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Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1)

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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

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.

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.

This book is a great read if you are looking for something light to breeze through!! I read my copy in 2 days and I have three kids, three dogs and one husband so it is not like I have a lot of extra time. The story is sweet and romantic. You do have to stretch your imagination a little bit and overlook a few things but don't you with all time travel books? I highly recommended this book!! I just started the second one and can't wait to read all the other books in this series!! Thank you Hollie Van Horne for a great story and a great time traveler series to keep my up late at night!!

I have just finished this book and then all of the others as of 2/07 by the same author. I very much enjoyed them all despite the fact that these are not the type of books I regularly read. I do read time travel books (love Jack Finney), but this was more of a romance novel, too. And, I'm not usually one for romance novels where one meets their undying forever love and has very hot erotic sex. But, for some reason, this book and her others were just completely entertaining.

These stories are more plot-driven than character driven. They aren't 'literary' by any means, yet the stories are a lot of fun.

These novels could definitely use some better editing. The author uses the word 'passed' incorrectly throughout the series, rather than the correct "past" (and considering they go to into the past, you will see this mistake quite a bit). There are numerous misspellings, too. In one of the books, there is the symbol (?sp) next to a difficult-to-spell name of a lake. Worst of all, there are many grammatical errors such as incorrect use of commas. All of these errors do detract a bit from the books and, after the first one or two books were published with so many mistakes, one has to wonder why the author didn't bother to get a new proofreader or editor.

I loved it. A great way to start a new series. I'm in.

I really expected to like this book...I love time travel romances. Unfortunately, this one was so poor ly done. There were tons of words spelled incorrectly (confidant for confident, being one that annoyed me several times) or used incorrectly (your when she means you're.) This sort of thing gets annoying after there are several in the beginning of a book. The book is told in the first person by what seems to be the author herself. The main character is a novelist who wears a size 6 and a 36DD bra (which seemed like wishful thinking.) She goes back in time and quickly and easily convinces a local that she is from the future...he decides to marry her and buys her a ton of clothes. The clothes shopping seems to go on forever and in great detail. This was when I gave up. This book has an amateur feel to it, as though it were meant to be published in a fanzine. Regretfully I bought the second book to this series as well, as I thought they sounded so good.

Reflections Of Toddsville is the story of Trudy Johnson, America's best selling historic romance writer who's personal love life consists of a bedside photography of a Victorian gentleman taken in 1991. On June 21, 1997 Trudy falls asleep in her Richfield Spring cabin only to awaken in the same bed one hundred years in the past -- with the man from her photography along side her! His name is Cuyler Carr, and hi's not happy about his fishing trip (or his reputation) being ruined by Trudy's unexpected arrival. Reflections Of Toddsville is a totally engaging and unique novel of love, time, and the vagaries of the human heart.

What a great way to start a new series! My favorite time travel romance to date and I have read a lot. I just want to know where my own "Cuyler" is and why I never meet any guys like him.

I started the series with this book (Reflections of Toddsville) and could not put it down. Then I bought When We Do Meet Again. Could not put it down. Does this sound like obsession? It is. Then I purchased all of the other books so that I would not have to wait for the UPS man to deliver them one at a time and am currently reading McKnight's Revenge, and Speak of the Dead is next. Of all the books, I must tell you that Reflections of Toddsville is the finest time travel romance I have ever read. I like them all, but when I look at Cuyler's face on the cover of this book (which sits on my living room table) I smile and the smile goes right down to my heart. That warm feeling every time I look at Cuyler is because this is a very special book that I will read over and over again for a very long time.