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TIME-KISSED DESTINY

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A wonderful time-travel, romance. Humorous and enchanting. The heroine is thrown back in time while scuba diving off the coast of Bermuda. A wonderful use of legend and the period descriptions of post-civil war Charleston are charming.

I love this time travel expedition. While scuba diving,Kate Walker a
New Jersey modern day woman is hurl back in time to 1868.She meet Shipping extrepreneur Michael Sheriden.
The storyline was good. The hero and heroine had sparks, personaility. and battle of wills.
A good read.
You did it again Constance ODay Flannery.

This is the first time travel book I have read. The storyline is great along with the characters. I would recommend this book for anyone who has a good imagination. Its amazing how you are tossed around in time when reading this book. This novel says enough about how great of a writer Constance O'day-Flannery is.

I love time travel romances, especially modern woman-meets past century man. What didn't work for me in this novel was the fact that the hero (Michael) thought the heroine (Kate) was a big fat liar for 99 percent of the book. He didn't believe her "I'm from the future story" despite the S.C.U.B.A equipment and her contact lenses that she had as proof. I mean, I suppose if someone told me he was from the future, I might scoff, but if he was in his flying car or hovercraft, I might be less skeptical. True, a contact lens isn't a hovercraft, but it's enough to make you start suspecting that something less than normal is going on.

The contact lens plot device bothered me too. I wear contacts, and back in the eighties and nineties you used to have to clean and "cook" them in a little box every night, or else they killed your eyes. The fact that she keeps them in drinking glasses full of seawater and then rinses them with fresh water doesn't make much sense. You can't rinse them with water. The minerals in water coat the lenses and make them impossible to wear. This seems a minor detail and kind of nit-picky of me to bring up, but if you're going to introduce a plot point like that and make it important later and then never come back to it is kind of frustrating for the reader. What did she do with her lenses for the rest of the book? Did she have to toss them and have bad eyesight? I dunno. I guess the writer didn't feel it was important enough to mention later on, but it bothered me that she dropped it.

The bigger issue I had with the romance was (and spoiler coming, but you probably guessed this already since it's a romance novel)why would you marry a guy who thought you were a big fat liar? Moreover, why would the guy marry someone he thought was a big fat liar? He never even believed her story was a possibility, and they never resolved that before they married. Then suddenly, at the end of the book (new spoiler warning inserted) they're transported to the future, and that's the end! We get an epilogue of some dude (who must have been a recurring character throughout a series of time-travel romances by this author) who is reflecting on all the couples he brought together and now it's time to move on. Kate spent so much time in Michael's world, adjusting to it, and doing without modern conveniences (like contact lens supplies and birth control! D'oh!) that I would have like to have seen Michael assimilation into the modern world. I don't give a crap about this other guy and his accomplishments.

And is it really a good idea to have sex when you're time traveling? I mean, you don't know if it's permanent or temporary, and you have no birth control. Bad idea, dudes. At least Kate could have had a moment of panic afterwards, thinking "Oh, crap! I could get pregnant back in a time when women died in childbirth all the time! And there's no cure for venereal disease!" It would have made the story more real to me. Plus, I kept thinking the whole time they were on the island "I bet her legs and armpits could use a good shave." I guess it would have detracted from the romance due to the "ick" factor. I'm sure they both had nasty body odor and breath, but that's not exactly sexy for the reader. I just couldn't help but think of it though, since many modern women are very conscious about those things.

Plus, I could see the "big reveal" about why Michael's mother hated him coming a mile away.

Constance O'Day-Flannery has lassoed me in & kept me under tight reins w/the rope, I've been snared in. In merely an hour, I read the first 100 pages, I've never read anything that quickly before. This novel will literally have you on the edge of your seat, capturing you're full attention until the very end. The connection & ignited fire Michael & Kate possess is absolutely breath-taking.

Even though this novel was written in "87" it's extremely easy to relate to. I've just bought other novels written by Constance, & I'm literally ecstatic to read them. This novel definitely DESERVES WELL BEYOND A 5 STAR RATING!!

This is one of my favorite books of all time. I have read it many times. I love how it is both comical and of course, sexy and romantic. I highly recommend this book.

This was one of the first time travel tales I ever read. It is an excellent, humorous, fast-paced story that has a hot love story to boot. A great read.

I loved how this series of books connected together and revolved around each other. Intriguing story line. Good read.