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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Pretty pathetic and unbelievable characters and dialogue, even before you throw in the time travel. THe main character has a 16 year old son, and women throwing themselves at him all the time, but somehow doesn't know how to kiss?!? And the heroine oscillateds between inability to handle the smallest thing, and superpowers as if someone was throwing a switch. Also, there is a major unbelieveable plot twist at the end that makes you feel like the author hit a publisher's deadline and finished the book in a rush. Disappointing.
I did like this book. It kinda touched a part of me how the chauvanist Jamie loved her and treated her like a princess.
Jamie was a dreamboat but I couldn't get past his chauvinist attitude. Elizabeth, have you no pride!?! Sure he had a sweet side, was kind at heart and curmudgeonly endearing; but if anyone did that to me, I'd give the cold shoulder and hightail it out of there. Ayanami is out. Peace.
Review posted here: https://courtneyreadsromancesite.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/review-of-a-dance-through-time-macleod-1-de-piaget-macleod-2-by-lynn-kurland/
There have been several other Kurland books in this series I loved. I didn't like this as much. Other books that she's written follow along from this one, so it makes sense that the 14th century people are a little anachronistic. The anachronisms were harder for me to handwave in this one.
What bothered me the most is that Nolan said he'd left Ian in the Fergusson's dungeon, dying, and neither Elizabeth nor Jamie said, "That's horrible! We must make a plan to go back in time and save him!" I didn't need the rescue to HAPPEN in that book, I just needed them to at least acknowledge that they might try.
The bit about Patrick having gone forward in time first seemed randomly shoehorned in. I know how that storyline moves forward, but - it just seemed odd. And the "happy-go-lucky" description really doesn't fit with what we see of him later.
On the other hand, I liked that Elizabeth was feisty and felt like the secondary characters had more depth than I see in many of these kinds of novels.
Still, it was fun, and it was neat to see where the whole shebang began.
What bothered me the most is that Nolan said he'd left Ian in the Fergusson's dungeon, dying, and neither Elizabeth nor Jamie said, "That's horrible! We must make a plan to go back in time and save him!" I didn't need the rescue to HAPPEN in that book, I just needed them to at least acknowledge that they might try.
The bit about Patrick having gone forward in time first seemed randomly shoehorned in. I know how that storyline moves forward, but - it just seemed odd. And the "happy-go-lucky" description really doesn't fit with what we see of him later.
On the other hand, I liked that Elizabeth was feisty and felt like the secondary characters had more depth than I see in many of these kinds of novels.
Still, it was fun, and it was neat to see where the whole shebang began.