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A review by shelbybee
All for You by Lynn Kurland
2.0
I'm on a Lynn Kurland kick and the premise seemed fun. Unfortunately I'd have to say this one just wasn't for me. It's probably my fault for jumping into the thirteenth book in a series and not bothering with any of the previous ones, but I just couldn't get into the world. There were so many side characters who, I could assume from context clues, all had their own books and they were constantly alluded to.
Also the main character's name is Peaches so I couldn't take anything she did seriously. I'd hope it's a nickname, because her sisters had names like Tess and Pippa (which was short for Persephone, but I think that's actually way more normal than Peaches, which is just so out of place to me I couldn't get over it). But if it is a nickname, no one ever mentions, or alludes to what her real name could be. If they did and I wasn't paying attention, I apologize. But I won't take back what I said about Peaches being a very silly given name. Because it is.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I was promised a time traveling romance and they barely spent five chapters in the past. Maybe because at this late stage in the series, the romance has time traveled both ways several times. But that was disappointing for me.
I think my expectations for the book would have been way more interesting than the actual story I got.
Allow me to tell you what I thought this book was going to be about, if only so I can get it out of my system.
I thought the medieval history professor would secretly know a way to get to the past that he would use in his spare time to live in the world he studied, and be a literal knight-in-training there as part of his research, and that our heroine would accidentally find her way back to the past as well, and get into some trouble that the professor would be uniquely able to help her out of, since he knows the time period so well and has connections there. And they fall in love despite not liking each other very much in the beginning as they work together to deal with the dangers of Medieval living and try to return to the present.
That is the story I was promised in the blurb goddammit!
Also the main character's name is Peaches so I couldn't take anything she did seriously. I'd hope it's a nickname, because her sisters had names like Tess and Pippa (which was short for Persephone, but I think that's actually way more normal than Peaches, which is just so out of place to me I couldn't get over it). But if it is a nickname, no one ever mentions, or alludes to what her real name could be. If they did and I wasn't paying attention, I apologize. But I won't take back what I said about Peaches being a very silly given name. Because it is.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I was promised a time traveling romance and they barely spent five chapters in the past. Maybe because at this late stage in the series, the romance has time traveled both ways several times. But that was disappointing for me.
I think my expectations for the book would have been way more interesting than the actual story I got.
Allow me to tell you what I thought this book was going to be about, if only so I can get it out of my system.
I thought the medieval history professor would secretly know a way to get to the past that he would use in his spare time to live in the world he studied, and be a literal knight-in-training there as part of his research, and that our heroine would accidentally find her way back to the past as well, and get into some trouble that the professor would be uniquely able to help her out of, since he knows the time period so well and has connections there. And they fall in love despite not liking each other very much in the beginning as they work together to deal with the dangers of Medieval living and try to return to the present.
That is the story I was promised in the blurb goddammit!