Rating: 
Summary: A Must Read!
Review: If you liked Jude Deveraux "A Knight in Shining Armor" or "Rememberance", you will love this book! It is well written, and the characters are quite likable. You will wish that this book could really be non fiction
Rating:
Summary: H-H-HOT!!!
Review: This is a tale of an adventurous English woman that meets the
man of her dreams hundreds of years in the past. Diana is Delightful and
Marcus is magnificent. You'll finish this hot little number
wondering why it couldn't have been you!
Rating:
Summary: People Scare Me
Review: I find it humorous that people don't like this book because it is unbelievable. It is a story about TIME TRAVEL! It is a ROMANCE novel! If you are looking for a believable story then get a non-fiction book. If you are looking for something deep try The Odyssey, The Illiad, The Forsyte Saga, Great Expectations, Meno, Phaedo, Crito, Apology, The Republic, Meditations on the First Philosophy...Something other than a romance novel.
If on the other hand you like fantasy romance novels, this was a good one.
Rating: 
Summary: "Historical" really isn't correct here....
Review: The author didn't do her homework for either the hero's or the heroine's time period, so if you're an astute fan of historicals, you'll want to skip this. There are numerous mistakes from fashion to etiquette. If you like raw, steamy, unbridled lust, read on. Can't really recommend this one because I prefer a bit more substance.
Rating: 
Summary: Dumb, dumb, dumb!
Review: My mother-in-law is a voracious reader. She, along with her friends, exchange "reads" by the bagfull. I found this book in one of those bags and I thank God I didn't waste money buying it. This is simply the worst book I've ever read.A reader from Germany stated that Ms. Henley (apparently) wrote this in the style of the early bodice-rippers. If that is correct, I'm most delighted I've never read one. I like my stories to have some credibility, but I couldn't even muster a chuckle for this. It's poorly written, too. In one example, Marcus Magnus, the brutish Roman general and throbbing sex object, converses with his slavemaster about the upcoming orgy he organizes, "I have a problem regarding the feast I throw for the governor..." Now, it's a small thing, certainly, but I don't believe Romans "threw" feasts. There is nothing likable about Diana, the main female character. The sex is graphic without any beauty or elegance. Please pass up the urge to read this unless you are truly into campy, trite, underwritten stories.
Rating:
Summary: Sexy time-travel story
Review: I bought this book 3 years ago,tried to read it ,and gave up. But recently ,upon reading some very glowing reviews ,I decided to give it another chance. It was just as bad as I recalled from 3 years ago! The prose was so purple that it was beyond funny. The heroine,Lady Diana,should have found her true calling-as a call girl. Her character was really over the top. She was not a girl of the regency period. As another person commented,it seemed that she had just stepped out from a shoppng mall.I was sick of her. For a girl who was supposedly very well read and highly inteligent,she did stupid things. I guess she was supposed to be fiesty, but she came off as really dense. For example,if you had just had a time travel experience and had been restored to your time period and you also knew that your evil aunt and uncle were plotting to get your money,would you tell everyone that you were missing because you had just time traveled back to ancient Bath during Roman occupation? Seems to me that that would gain you instant access to Bedlam. As for Mark/Marcus,I liked him a little better,but he was not very believable,either. As far as I could tell,there was no real plot. It seemed to be sex scenes thrown together with the barest of story. Virginia, you have done better.
Rating: 
Summary: A book I love to read over and over.
Review: This book by Virginia Henley is one of my favorites. She writes it with so much knowledge of the past and with so much storytelling expertise that it is worth reading over and over. Especially when she goes back in time. It was done with such amazing speed that you did not know what happened until you read more and more. When you get to the last page you are so happy for them especially Mark or shall I say Marcus.
|
