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Release Date: December 29 th

DNF at 40%

Anne, our modern day character sees the photograph of her grandma's first fiancé and becomes instantly smitten with it, and very determined to act as some sort of Nancy Drew wanna be.

I know this is a time travel romance, but despite that, I was expecting a little more something, to ground her sudden obsession with the guy.

She's a teacher! Logical reasoning would be in order.

Also, I would expect a little of: OH MY GOD I'M OGLING MY GRANDMOTHER'S MISSING FIANCÉ! UGH!

Not the: Oh, here is that handsome devil who went missing a few decades ago, I must kiss him at once!

Then the colloquial speech that practically invades the initial part of the book became _for me_ quite tiresome to read.

(though I have been told that it is actually correct, so the problem is mine.)

“I’ve held tea for ye, Anne, but I canna say as I’m happy ’bout it, or ’bout yer grandmother’s goin’ off like she did with nary a word t’ me.”

“What’s troubling ye then, lass?” Trudy asked, her voice gentle now. “Would ye like a cuppa? Ye look a bit queer.”

"(..)she stared into the shadows and recalled her gloried past, conscious of its stark contrast to widowed life."

Gloried? Because she was married?

 Wow, o_O

Built a pyre and throw yourself into it, why don't you?

( I know, I know...but what can I say? My sentimental bones are very hard to find these days...)

And then  I got to the part in which the grandma seems more worried with the fact that Anne will be dressed properly _yes, a big thing back then, BUT, priorities please _ than the actual: Oh MY GOD MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS GOING TO TIME TRAVEL TO THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED' JUST LIKE MY FIANCÉ!

"But you mustn’t wear jeans, or anything short-short, until you’re back in Virginia. You’ll have to find something passably appropriate for the 1500s.”

But what really made me decide to quit reading this, is that immediately after Anne "travels" to that time period the thing becomes "rapey". It doesn't even take a few minutes, or hours, no, it happens immediately.

So, Anne draws the attentions of two bastards that immediately start discussing who will be first...

She manages to escape (yay!)...but they are able to keep following her (buh!), and later on, she is kidnapped (double buh...).

Once again she manages to escape (the odds are clearly in her favour!), and eventually she meets her grandma's missing fiancé (mission accomplished).

Oh, and she even manages to save Queen Elizabeth's life with the Heimlich  maneuver.

Great!

Sorry, book its not you _well, part of it... is _ but it is mostly me!

Clearly a casting mistake on my part: Book, we just weren't meant to be together until the very end :(

I bid you farewell. 

Morgan O'Neil is the combined work of authors Cary Morgan Frates and Deborah O’Neill Cordes.

I am excited about the Outlander TV Series! 

I adore Time Travel Romance for the Fish Out of Water humor and I especially love it when it is the hero who is time traveling. 

Here are some good ones where the hero moves through time to find love! 

1. Here and Now by Constance O'Day-Flannery Travels to present from 1920's. 

2. The Very Virile Viking by Sandra Hill Viking come to Hollywood. 

3. Binding Vows by Catherine Bybee  Scot to the  twenty-first century Renaissance Faire

4. The Very Thought of You by Lynn Kurland  Corporate raider to Medieval Era

5. Some Like It Hotter by Deb Stover Police Detective to 1865 Mississippi 

6. Yellowstone Redemption by Peggy L Henderson City Boy to Yellowstone 

7. Time and Again by Nora Roberts Brothers from the 23rd Cent.

8. Unforgotten by Tamara Leigh  Cop to Middle Ages Battle Field 

9. Miranda's Viking by Maggie Shayne Viking to New York

10. One More Valentine by Anne Stuart  1920 Gangster to the Present. 

I have a confession. I don't care for Karen Marie Moning's romances. This is why they are not on the list. Every now and then, I try again. 

Did I miss your favorite (other than KMM?) Let me know!

To vote for the best of the best, go to the Goodreads list: Best Hero Time Travel Romance. 

Check out my Pinterest Board for more recommendations and Time Travel Film stills: Great Time Travel Romance. 

TIME TRAVELS SERIES !!!!!

Out of Time Series
Monique Martin

Book 1- Out of Time ★★★★
Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his new assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't. In 1920s Manhattan, they find that are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. Will Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship survive the vampires' teeth? Will they survive to make it back? Or will they be forever out of time?

Book 2- When the Walls Fell (eBook) ★★★★★
Professor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything. A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born. When they arrive in 1906 San Francisco, Elizabeth and Simon have no idea who wants Victor Graham dead or how it will happen. With the earthquake that leveled most of the city just days away, the race to save Graham thrusts them into a complex mystery of jealousy and revenge where murder might be the least of their worries.

Book 3- Fragments
Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help. They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened. He remembers only one thing with crystal clarity, the whereabouts of an artifact Hitler believes can win the war. That's information every Nazi spy in the country would kill to know. As if saving Evan and surviving war-torn England weren't enough, the outcome of the war hinges on Simon and Elizabeth finding Evan's artifact before the Nazis do. But time is running out: for them, for London, for the world.

Book 4- The Devil's Due
Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon's grandfather's journal. Picking up where Grandfather Sebastian left off, Simon and Elizabeth, along with Jack Wells, travel to glamorous 1933 Hollywood to save the life of movie star Alan Grant. But the Golden Age of Hollywood is more than parties and premieres. Behind the bright lights and bigger-than-life contracts, shadows lurk and no one is what they seem. It's a place where people will do anything for fame and fortune. And if Simon and Elizabeth fail, more than a man's life might be lost.

Book 5- Thursday's Child
The Crosses, renowned Professor of the Occult Simon and irrepressible Elizabeth, set off on their latest time traveling adventure. Leaving Jack behind to nurse his broken heart, the couple travels to 1852 Natchez, Mississippi to help the next person on grandfather Sebastian's list, Mary Stewart. There's just one problem. Little Mary Stewart, just 8 years old, died two days ago. Mary's spirit cannot rest until Simon and Elizabeth solve the mystery of both her life and death. But Mary cannot speak, and there are those who are willing to kill to keep the past buried. Simon and Elizabeth discover first-hand that dark secrets in the Antebellum South hide pasts murkier than the river bottom and twice as dangerous.

Book 6- Sands of Time 
Release Date- November 2013

The Crosses--high-spirited Elizabeth and her brilliant Professor of the Occult husband, Simon--find themselves, along with Jack Wells, in 1920 Cairo on a special assignment for the Council for Temporal Studies. It seems like a simple enough mission---find a missing pocket watch and bring it back to the present. The only problem is, they're not the only ones looking. With danger lurking around every corner, Simon and Elizabeth race against a shadowy foe who is after far more than just a watch. The price for success this time just might be their lives.