4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Fast Paced Time Travel, Mar 6 2003
This review is from: Loves Labyrinth (Paperback)
England 1999 - best friends, Olivia Lindsley and Alison O'Neill don 16th century costumes and enter a maze to meet others in their tour group would be playing parts in an Elizabethan revel! Who would have guessed that when they came out of the maze they would be taking part in history - namely England 1586!
Upon exiting, there stood Geoffrey Talcott, amateur scientist and younger brother to Lord Nicholas Talcott. Well, that is he stood for a second until he fainted dead away at the sight of the two women he immediately recognized as coming from someplace other than his century! Regaining consciousness, his first thought was he had to hide these two from his brother Nicholas and their royal guest, Queen Elizabeth but that didn't happen and with some quick thinking on Olivia's part, a plausible story was made up until they could figure a way out of this mess and Geoffrey figure out how to get them back to their own time.
There were so many delightful and exciting twists and turns to this time travel that used actual famous historical people in the plot. Both Olivia and Alison were wonderfully portrayed - Olivia fitting in quite naturally as she had assisted her father in Elizabethan historical studies, and Alison her very best friend and clearly a 20th century gal, not enjoying roughing it in 16th century England! Both would fall prey to the charming Talcott brothers, and heartbreak seemed to be in store for both should they ever find their way back. With the politically dangerous climate and old enemies exacting plots for revenge the bigger question was would they survive long enough to make it back or would their prescence upset and change forever the future, as they knew it. This was a very fast-paced time travel story, lots of intrigue, history, and sprinkled with a little humor and lot of heart.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This was a Romance?, Oct 26 2002
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I did something I've never done before I didn't finish the book. I skimmed it and never found any romance in it. I'm not sure what the other reviewers found but it wan't in my copy. I disliked the main hero and would have liked to have read more about the secondary hero although he did sound wimpish. the two heroines were ok but nothing special. I got bored with this almost from the first. I would not recommend this at all.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
NICE TIME TRAVEL!, Jun 30 2001
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Just to make myself clear, 3 stars means that this is a nice book. Not a great book, but not a dud either. I enjoyed Olivia and Alyson. Also thought Geoffrey was a cutie. Nicholas, however, seemed to have trouble deciding what his personality was going to be from day to day. He was a cold, arrogant oaf who eventually degenerated into a needy puddle of mush. The ending is very well done, working out just right. I will look into other books by this author.
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