This little gem is billed as a "time travel romance". It is a romance, a very well written one (though this is not my genre). The relationship between the main characters develops slowly and naturally coming together without affectation at the end -- well perhaps a little affectation. The "time travel" part of the story is pretty light. We are introduced at the beginning to a young lady who stepped into a supply closet in a 21st century Canadian coffee house and stepped out to find herself in a bedroom of a castle being outfitted for her wedding. She has no idea what is happening or why, but not wanting to marry at the moment she manages to steal a horse and escape. We learn she has considerable martial arts skills, so this escape under what could only be disorienting circumstances is explained. We are told all of this. The story starts when, traipsing lost through the woods being pursued by the family from whom she escaped, she runs into Fergus our other main character.
From that point, traveling through his world with him, she meets many of his family, good and bad, braves and helps considerably (the martial arts) through a few nasty fights being still pursued by those who turn out to be blood feud enemies of Fergus and his clan. In what amounts to a handful of weeks, she and Fergus slowly fall in love and marry. That may seem a little quick, but given how intensely they are thrown together, saving one another multiple times, it all seems natural. One thing that seems unnatural to me is that through this whole adventure our young heroine, though she muses once about having stepped into a medieval world, never once thinks to ask anyone what year it is?
Apart from the allusion to it in the beginning, there is no mention of time travel. There is nothing to suggest Brigid expects anything but to remain in this time until, in a short "alternate ending", Brigid and Fergus step through a door to a hallway in his family's castle and find themselves in the supply closet of that Canadian coffee shop! What now!?
Interestingly, throughout the book, there are 174 sentences spoken by various characters in an old-old Scottish brogue, some even in short dialog between a few of the characters. Each one of these sentences is translated into English in end notes. An advantage of my Kindle edition is that I can tap on the note number and read the translation! Even if one knows something of this language it cannot have been spoken regularly for hundreds of years. The author has done a lot of work here, and much of the humor in the dialog comes in these utterances.
Well written, cute story, sweet romance. Not really science fiction. If romance is your thing, this is good bed-time reading.
- File Size: 1556 KB
- Print Length: 271 pages
- Publication Date: October 5, 2019
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B07YK4J8VY
- Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
- Word Wise: Not Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,640 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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