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This Time For Keeps

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I loved this book! This is the second Kathleen Kane book that I have read. The humor and 1998 slang she throws into the 1800's is a riot! Nora is such a spitfire! I had to call my book store and order two more of her books. If you like time-travel romance with a lot of humor, you would love this book. I would have to say it's a MUST READ!

This book made me laugh out loud. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in quite some time. I'm not even a romance or time travel reader for the most part but I absolutely loved this book. I recommend it to all of my customers no matter what type of reader they are. It's a light and fun read. I own a small used bookstore and when I am out of stock on this title, I have a copy of my own that I loan out to customers. I don't want them to miss out on it. It's a great read!

I enjoy time-travel romances, but after a while, the plots start to become alike. Not this one!

Tracy Hill dies while on a date at a bowling alley, and demands from "The Three Stooges" that she be given another chance....her way! Little does she know that while granting her conditions, they send her back to the 1800's. She becomes the new Nora, far more bold and outspoken that anyone can imagine. (Perhaps a trifle too bold?)

This book has a lot of western adventure and even a smidge of mystery. It is interesting that all the players in Nora's new life were also players in her previous lives. Before I had read this book, the only one who had successfully pulled off the reincarnation story line was Jude Deveraux.

A good read for anyone who enjoys humor and originality!

I found this book entertaining as well as a great plot with romance involved. I enjoyed reading it and could not put it down. I read it within 24 hours! In fact, I want to check out some of her other titles and see if I can find them in my local used book store or the library. The characters are funny, mysterious and romantic. I recommend it to anyone who likes mystery, romance, futuristic and a little of humor!

I had a teriffic time with this book. I consider it one of the best books I've read thus far this year. I highly urge anyone to go out and get this book. It is a great way to relax and escape from the mudane. I absolutely love how the author applies quick wit and scarcasm that keeps the reader continously laughing--even at the moments of high drama. Absolutely teriffic!!!!

Tracy Hill has travelled through the centuries and has lived eight lives. Her last life was ended abruptly in 1998 by a freak bowling accident. In Heaven the "Resettlement Committee" has decreed that she must return to Earth to finish her "time" there. This time Tracy has stated that she will only return on her terms. She wants to be the same age 27, female, wealthy, healthy and does not want "love" this time around as it has been the cause of all her previous deaths. Most of her wishes are granted and she returns to live the remainder of her life. The only problem is she didn't specify a time and wakes up in the guise of Nora Wilding, the owner of a cattle ranch in Montana in 1875. She further discovers that she is engaged to be married to one Richard Bonner but that she is wildly attracted to her foreman, Seth Murdoch, "a young Clint Eastwood, minus the charm."

Kathleen Kane writes historical romances set in America's wild west at the end of the 1800s, with a paranormal twist. If you like rugged cowboys with dark hair and blues eyes and if you like your heroines with lots of guts and a sharp tongue, you will enjoy reading her books. Nora's character was fun, as we could see the wild west through her modern eyes and Seth made a gallant hero. The sub plot kept ticking along, although you will have worked out the scam at the beginning of the book. An enjoyable read on the whole.

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I just finished this book and I enjoyed it very much. Nora, comes back to live her 9th life and meets up with her soul mate again. This would be great if said soul mate has not been responsible for killing Nora in all of her other lives. This was a lively and entertaining story. I do feel as if the story could have been a bit more romantic. It seemed as if the H/H just fell in love in the dream segments instead of the time that they were presently experiencing. The originality of the story, and Nora's high spirited personality made up for that slight oversight.

Nobody does the American west like Kathleen Kane! This Time for Keeps is witty, funny and intriguing. The heroine making demands to the minions of God is a riot. Flawlessly written, Kane had deleivered a great read every time and is in a class by herself . Highly recommended!

This is a hilarious time travel about a woman who has bad, bad luck with men. She gets a second chance after being accidently killed by her date's bowling ball. In this second chance she is send to the past in the old west. There she finds herself in another body and trying to find out what is going on. This story has a backdrop plot of past lives in which her past lives never work out because her soul mate keeps blundering and she ends up dead. I love this book, wish the author would return to this genre.

As a huge fan of "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon, I was drawn to this book because of its time travel theme. There, the similarity stops. While "Outlander" is a well-written book that engages the reader with both its plot and characters, this book is simply no "Outlander". This is, however, a brash and breezy book time travel romance from which those who are fond of this genre will derive a modicum of enjoyment. Although short on character development, the plot is somewhat interesting, even though the ending is predictable.

Apparently our erstwhile heroine, Tracy Hill, has a penchant for coming to an early and ignominious end in every life that she has lived. It appears, however, that in her ninth life she will have an opportunity to right what has gone wrong before. Heaven's "Resettlement Committee" has decreed that she will be able to have health and wealth in her new life and live to the ripe old age of ninety-five. She will also have the ability to remember her past lives. What Tracy does not bargain for is being sent to live in the past in a remote cattle ranch in 1875 Montana.

Written with humor and quite funny at times, Tracy brings her modern day sensibilities to bear in her new life, where she is reborn into the body of a very-ill woman named Nora. Upon Nora's amazing recovery, she takes Montana by storm and by surprise. She gets to know the two men in Nora's life, the strong and protective Seth, the foreman of her ranch, and the more voluble and somewhat possessive Richard, Nora's supposed fiancé. The new Nora finds herself drawn to Seth almost against her will, while Richard doesn't quite seem to be able to move the earth under her feet. Interlaced with these romantic meanderings is a little mystery that every discerning reader will be able to figure out with little trouble.