Timeshare: A Time for War (Timeshare Trilogy, 3)

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Summary: Please, Mr. Dann, I want some more books
Review: As the third book of the series, this is also one of the best. Time traveler John Surrey leaves 2007 and goes back to 1940 so that he can get involved with the war in Europe. He meets Ian Fleming and many others and weaves everything into a tight and fascinating book.
I did not find him to be either sexist or homophobic but, rather, he followed the feelings of both the 1940s and 2007. Are there historical flaws? Maybe a few, but they are so unimportant as to be easy to ignore. A great book in a great series (and I hope not the last of the series)

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Summary: Once again, Joshua Dann shines
Review: I can't get enough of John Surrey or Althea. I love the way the characters move through time as easily as some people change "time zones." This novel focuses on World War II and John's desire to live through the war, and not just read about it. He and Althea stay for the duration, and without giving much away, John can't sit back and let history unfold in the way he knows it will. Excellent writing, and characters. Thank you Mr. Dann!

Wyla Gyla sauce

Scott Hollander

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Summary: A Book That You Can Put Down And Come Back To
Review: I'm a nut for books about time-travel. My favorites are written by Jack Finney. Joshua Dann does write well but somehow he loses the excitement and nostalgia that are a part of most time-travel adventures. This is a black-and-white book in an era of technicolor books; no "oomph." Maybe it's the characters; perhaps it is the plot. All I know is that its presentation does not "grab" the reader and does not compell one to keep reading. Even trying to recall it is an effort although Jack Finney's time travel novels are crystal-clear in my mind. Dann somehow doesn't do it.

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Summary: PAST IMPERFECT
Review: John Surrey is a character who doesn't like self-importance and ignorance in others, yet carries it around in himself. Whether he realizes it or not, he's rather sexist and homophobic (as are many of the characters in Dann's Time Share series). Unlike the two previous novels in the series, nothing in A TIME FOR WAR makes for such good reading that you can overlook the flaws. Mr. Dann is a good storyteller, but he mistakes old-fashioned charm for old-fashioned ignorance and this title proves that the third time is not the "charm."