Customer Reviews

Somewhere in Time

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Heroine: a strapping young woman

    Dashing Zane Rutledge hadn't planned on crossing paths again with his beautiful ex-wife, but had no choice when the passing of his last-remaining relative left him in the possession of one Revolutionary War uniform. A uniform which none other than American History buff Emilie Crosse was best qualified to examine.

Emilie hadn't seen her jet-setting ex in five years, but clearly he still had the ability to make her spine tingle just by walking into a room. Her greatest regret was that their brief marriage was grounded only in their physical attraction to each other, that their wants and desires for their lives were such polar opposites of each other.

Swept back through time by an unusual storm, the unlikely pair find themselves in the middle of an uprising: the colonies are about to declare their Independence from Britain. A stunned Emilie meets childhood hero Andrew McVie in the flesh, discovering that he has the wants and desires of any other man. And that his wants are a mirror of her own. Emilie must decide between the man of her own time whom she once loved but couldn't live with, and a man of the past who could give her the home she always longed for.

What worked for me:
I always enjoy a good time-travel story. I think it's fascinating to see how modern-day people struggle to get by in a world unlike their own. Emilie was an interesting lady and I sympathized with her situation.   

What didn't work for me:
Zane was handsome, but shallow. Yes, his character did grow as the story moved along but he still had a long way to go even by the end of the book.

Overall:
Very pleasant book, but if you are a fan of novels rich in historical detail then this is not the book for you. While it is set in colonial America, there wasn't much mention of how people lived.  

This is the first book of a trilogy. The next book deals with secondary character Andrew McVie and his experiences in the future, which I hope to read in my own near future. :^)

This is the one. I read it for the first time six years ago and never forgot it. I re-read it this weekend and what can I say? It's better than I remembered. Intelligent. Sexy. Thought-provoking. Deeply moving. A keeper.

I gave this book 4 stars because the overall story was interesting, but I find it highly unlikely that a man like Zane Grey Rutledge would choose to live in the past rather than in the present, mainly because he lacked for nothing, and, being the sort of jerk that he was, was too spoiled to give up the good life. Even for Emelie.

Emelie kept saying 'women are equal to men' yet everytime Zane yelled at her or told her to 'shut up' she remained quiet as a mouse. Really, she should have smacked him. He really did treat her badly. Thank goodness all the other characters around him were interesting; otherwise I wouldn't have finished the book.