A Dance Through Time

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Summary: A Dance Through Time
Review: I have to disagree with Jill on one point. I enjoyed this book very much. Also a Gabaldon fan and waiting for her next book, I needed something to read. I found Ms. Kurland's books easy to read, hard to put down at times and a nice way to pass the time. Though nothing can hold a candle to Gabaldon's Outlander in historical content,and character development, Lynn Kurland's books were all a lot of fun. I'm glad I took the time to read them all.

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Summary: Spare yourself ! Get Outlander!
Review: OK, the reviews from Cathy and Kim made me pick this one up, and I have to agree with Deborah's review....yuck. Diana Gabaldon has makes this book look as if it were written by a grade schooler. Sorry Lynn, this book completely lacks any real historical detail, the characters are incomplete, and the plot cartoonish. The only real emotion it evoked from me was irritation that Lynn Kurland used the character name "Jamie" in it.....after almost 4,000 pages of the Outlander series by Gabaldon under my belt (Jamie and Claire for the unfortunate souls who haven't had the priviledge to experience them), I immediately drew a comparison, and Kurland lost miserably. Kim and Cathy, Gabaldon's Jamie is the only one there is! Run to the library!

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Summary: Dance through Time
Review: Wonderfully light hearted "get away from it all" book. It made for a terrific afternoon's escape from reality.

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Summary: St George's Knees....
Review: ..or was it St George's toes and St Michael's knees? I LOVED this book. Rarely does a romance combine humor, passion and historical detail with such success as Ms Kurland has achieved. I laughed, cried, fumed and loved right along with all the wonderful characters. It left me wishing for my very own magical forest to get lost in. This was the first of Ms Kurland's books that I've read and am desperately hoping that there are other of her books that continue the story. Please Ms Kurland, I must know what happens to Ian?

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Summary: She's phoning it in
Review: I believe Ms. Kurland has the ability to write a book as enjoyable as Dianna Gabaldon's series of books but for some reason (perhaps her editor's) has not truly applied herself. The premise of the book is entertaining and the series of adventures which befall the characters are interesting but they are not sufficiently developed. Ms. Kurland makes flat statements and expects the reader to suspend all rational thought and blindly accept the premise that is presented. The shame of it is, if she expanded on the various situations, had the characters live what she is describing, had more dialogue and less exposition, these books could be truly entertaining.

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Summary: You won't be able to put it down, once you start reading!
Review: Ms. Kurland captures your interest from the start with her descriptive writing. It's easy to become one with the characters as they travel through time righting wrongs and loving each other spendidly as they go. Ms. Kurland with her knowledge of Highland Clan history makes this tale very realistic, I could actually see and hear her characters going about their lives and wishing that I could have been there too! Anyone with a little bit of adventure in their soul will enjoy this thoroughly charming tale of Highland Lairds and adventerous 20th Century women.

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Summary: "THE BEST TIME-TRAVEL ROMANCE OF ALL TIMES!
Review: "A DANCE THROUGH TIME" is by far the best time-travel romance ever writen. I love this book, I have lost count how many times i've read it. I know it by memory. The fact,that is so sweet and funny. It remained me of "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST". How rough and mean he started out in the beginning only for the heroine to discover, what a prince lay underneath

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Summary: By all the Saints, it was ho-hum!
Review: I'll admit that I was perhaps looking for something to read that would keep me occupied until Diana Gabaldon releases "The Fiery Cross." Just something along the lines of historical romance with the interesting twist of time travel. This doesn't mean that I was hoping "A Dance Through Time" would be a replica of "Outlander" (and it wasn't!), but I guess I was hoping for more...something. This novel reads like the one you might have written in seventh grade with your best friend, passing it back and forth, each of you writing a giggling, girlish, highly implausible chapter. Jamie is just this pig-headed lout from the past with no discernible redeeming qualities. Mind you, I expect 13th century Scottish lairds to be pig-headed, but his constant outbursts of "By all the saints!" and "Saints above!" and "By all the saints (again)!" became a joke. How many different ways can he express his exasperation for this vexing, ravishing, yet innocent temptress from the future? Two, evidently. So, aside from his limited vocabulary (and I appreciate that men even in our own time may have difficulty expressing themselves beyond a compassionate grunt), he just didn't strike me as someone to stick around a drafty old castle for, when you have the creature comforts of home (and your milquetoast fiance) back in the 20th century. And could Elizabeth be more irritating? Copping a major attitude on the spur of the moment, working herself into a grand pout when the big lummox (that would be Jamie) doesn't concede to her wishes, collapsing into helpless tears at the slightest incident... And then there's her family, back here in the modern era. She disappears without a trace for months, returns with a big bearded guy who claims to be a Scottish laird from 600 years ago, and this is all okay with them? They just accept it? Her family of four brothers and a big, stubborn, over-protective father? A single night of questioning Jamie convinces them that he's all he says he is, and now they're bonding in that gruff, manly way?? Hello? I appreciate an element of fantasy in books, but this bland acceptance of the highly unbelievable fit in poorly with what was clearly trying to be a halfway realistic tale. Anyway. I couldn't make myself like this book, even though I wanted to, if only to justify the $6 I spent on it. I gave it 2 stars, though, because it wasn't HORRIBLE. It just wasn't very good.

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Summary: Very Romantic!
Review: I have never read a romance novel in my life but this is the second of Lynn Kurland novels I have read in less than a week. In A Dance Through Time I found Jamie and Elizabeth to be such wonderful lovers. I cried reading Jamies first sight of his long lost brother Patrick.This is really a great book and well worth the reading.

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Summary: A wonderful time travel romance!
Review: I love time travel romance stories and this is one of my all time favorites. I enjoyed how she chose to explain time travel and it's effects on history. The characters came alive and had personalities. I laughed, giggled and sighed my way through. This is definitely a keeper and one that I will read again just for the fun of it.