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Summary: So-So...
Review: As an avid reader of time travel novels, I have read enough of them to know a quality book. While the main characters -- Chuyler and Trudy -- are lovable and endearing, I found the dialogue rather choppy and artifical. In addition, the suddenness at their falling in love from the beginning of the story threw me for a loop. I found it odd how Trudy adapted so comfortably and quickly to the fact that she was 100 years in the past. Imagining myself experiencing such an unexpected turn of events, I don't think I would have handled the event so lightly. I also did not find Chuyler's quick acceptance of Trudy's time travel tale very believable. I think the author should have played out the time travel bit a while longer, to add to the possibility of it all. Finally, I thought the kidnap scene toward the end of the book was a final, desperate attempt at making the story attention-grabbing. I couldn't wait to finish the book. If you like fluffy time travel books, that covers storylines on the surface, this is the perfect book for you. If you want a deeper, thought-provoking novel of time travel, skip this one and read "A Letter to Sergeant Gillian" by Jacqueline Druga-Marchetti. Now that is a GREAT time-travel book!!!!!!!!
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Summary: So-So...
Review: As an avid reader of time travel novels, I have read enough of them to know a quality book. While the main characters -- Chuyler and Trudy -- are lovable and endearing, I found the dialogue rather choppy and artifical. In addition, the suddenness at their falling in love from the beginning of the story threw me for a loop. I found it odd how Trudy adapted so comfortably and quickly to the fact that she was 100 years in the past. Imagining myself experiencing such an unexpected turn of events, I don't think I would have handled the event so lightly. I also did not find Chuyler's quick acceptance of Trudy's time travel tale very believable. I think the author should have played out the time travel bit a while longer, to add to the possibility of it all. Finally, I thought the kidnap scene toward the end of the book was a final, desperate attempt at making the story attention-grabbing. I couldn't wait to finish the book. If you like fluffy time travel books, that covers storylines on the surface, this is the perfect book for you. If you want a deeper, thought-provoking novel of time travel, skip this one and read "A Letter to Sergeant Gillian" by Jacqueline Druga-Marchetti. Now that is a GREAT time-travel book!!!!!!!!
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Summary: WHAT A WAY TO GET HOOKED
Review: Even though this was actually the third book written in the series, Hollie Van Horne, had such a sense of continuity, she made it the first in the series, having all the details and relationships follow perfectly. Romance writer accidentally falls through a time portal into the 1890's. Finds love and romance. Sets the background for the new Time Travelers Inc. company to be formed, for future time travel. It's a fantasy, but yet could it be real? Hollie Van Horne sure makes you think so. I recommend buying all 6 books, reading them in a row, and continuing with all the new ones to come. The plot premise of the Time Travelers Series, leaves endless options for future books. Become friends with Sam and Jim Cooper, Bruce Wainwright, and all the characters that you will travel with in all the books. the best time travel romance/history/action books I've ever read. And I've read many
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Summary: The best time travel-romance series on the market
Review: I had read one or two time travel romance novels before and was vaguely interested in them. Then I met Hollie at a booksigning and decided to read the first one in the series and if I liked it, I would buy the rest of the books. This book made me feel as if I had gone into the past. When I was finished with the book, I just sat there waiting to come back to reality. I felt like I had gone on this journey to the past and now I was coming home. Landing. I was on-line in less than an hour buying the rest of the series. Now, I can't read any other time travel book because they just don't make me feel like I went there the way her book did. I will never forget Trudy or Cuyler.
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Summary: The best time travel story on the market
Review: I have never read any other time travel book that takes you on a more realistic trip than Reflections of Toddsville. I heard about this book by reading Sandy Johnson's review in Ohioana's summer edition of their Library Quarterly. She gave it and When We Do Meet Again rave reviews. I decided to pick book one and try it. I enjoy the Victorian time period and have always felt that I should have been born then instead of now, so I loved the constant historical detail that was in this book. It made the whole story more realistic to me. Van Horne never misses a beat as far as I am concerned. I cried when the book was over because the characters seemed so real that I felt like I'd lost a close friend. When you are finished with this book, you have the strangest feeling that it is a true story. It isn't an adventure story. It is a book that enters your heart and mind forever--a classic love story. If you are a fan of time travel romances, then you can't miss this one. I haven't read the other books in the series, but I plan on ordering them. Trudy and Cuyler will stay in my memory forever.
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Summary: a new fan
Review: I loved it. A great way to start a new series. I'm in.
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Summary: This is the most incredible book I have ever read! Awesome!
Review: I met Hollie Van Horne a week ago at a booksigning and bought all five of her titles. I began with Reflections of Toddsville... I'm back in 1897 with Cuyler and Trudy. Now I have to tell you that I have always thought I belonged in the Victorian age anyway, but when I started to read Trudy's time travel trip, I was just THERE! I mean the book was so real, I went back in time. I don't know how "Trudy" I mean Hollie does it, but I could have sworn Cuyler was sitting right beside me while I read. There is something mystical about Van Horne's books. I'm going to read SPEAK OF THE DEAD which is not a time travel next and then go back and read the rest of the series books. I am in reader heaven... I am not sure how much you believe in the supernatural, but after reading REFLECTIONS OF TODDSVILLE, I can tell you that I do believe in time travel, and I do believe in eternal love... Van Horne has made a believer out of me.
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Summary: The best time travel-romance series on the market
Review: I really expected to like this book...I love time travel romances. Unfortunately, this one was so poor ly done. There were tons of words spelled incorrectly (confidant for confident, being one that annoyed me several times) or used incorrectly (your when she means you're.) This sort of thing gets annoying after there are several in the beginning of a book. The book is told in the first person by what seems to be the author herself. The main character is a novelist who wears a size 6 and a 36DD bra (which seemed like wishful thinking.) She goes back in time and quickly and easily convinces a local that she is from the future...he decides to marry her and buys her a ton of clothes. The clothes shopping seems to go on forever and in great detail. This was when I gave up. This book has an amateur feel to it, as though it were meant to be published in a fanzine. Regretfully I bought the second book to this series as well, as I thought they sounded so good.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I really expected to like this book...I love time travel romances. Unfortunately, this one was so poor ly done. There were tons of words spelled incorrectly (confidant for confident, being one that annoyed me several times) or used incorrectly (your when she means you're.) This sort of thing gets annoying after there are several in the beginning of a book. The book is told in the first person by what seems to be the author herself. The main character is a novelist who wears a size 6 and a 36DD bra (which seemed like wishful thinking.) She goes back in time and quickly and easily convinces a local that she is from the future...he decides to marry her and buys her a ton of clothes. The clothes shopping seems to go on forever and in great detail. This was when I gave up. This book has an amateur feel to it, as though it were meant to be published in a fanzine. Regretfully I bought the second book to this series as well, as I thought they sounded so good.
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Summary: A big fan from Warren, Ohio
Review: I started the series with this book (Reflections of Toddsville) and could not put it down. Then I bought When We Do Meet Again. Could not put it down. Does this sound like obsession? It is. Then I purchased all of the other books so that I would not have to wait for the UPS man to deliver them one at a time and am currently reading McKnight's Revenge, and Speak of the Dead is next. Of all the books, I must tell you that Reflections of Toddsville is the finest time travel romance I have ever read. I like them all, but when I look at Cuyler's face on the cover of this book (which sits on my living room table) I smile and the smile goes right down to my heart. That warm feeling every time I look at Cuyler is because this is a very special book that I will read over and over again for a very long time.
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