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A Train Through Time

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This book was marketed as time travel science fiction, and that's what I'm reviewing it as.

In fact, it's a romance novel and time travel is only a weak plot device. There is no science in the book at all.

When I bought the book I figured that if it fell flat there would at least be some interesting train stuff - wrong there, too. There are a couple of little things, like crossing the precarious connection between cars, but mostly, the train is just another plot device.

I don't read romance novels, so I'm not going to comment on that aspect, other than to say that I thought the human relationship was one dimensional, underdeveloped, and nonsensical. I wasn't moved by the story at all.

The story is set at the turn of the 20th century. I'm not old enough to have lived at that time, but I am old enough to have talked to people who did experience it, and McBride misses the train on the flavor and experience of the era. That was a very conflicted and repressive time. A woman showing her ankle was a scandalous act; being seen in a Jeans dress, with bare lower legs would have set off a riot, and not the good kind. The material of her dress is discussed but the exposure doesn't even draw a comment. The people in the story do drive horses. Cars aren't mentioned, but the wealthy did have cars then. That could have been interesting.

I don't know anything about Seattle in 1901, I hope that was more informative, because for me, that was the most interesting part of the book.

I enjoyed the historical detail and the interactions between the hero and heroine. I have trouble finding reads with a "sweet" heat level and so appreciated this one.

this was a great book. It keeps you going , I read this book in 2 days.