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Summary: Drawn into the world
Review: I was so engrossed. I started yesterday and finished today. I could see them dancing, talking, flurting, and arguing right in front of me. It was so vivid.
Sam made a wish and it came true, now, she's in 1553. You are with her as she learns to acclimate to her new environment and the people around her. You feel her passion, and confusion and her sense of not belonging. But you are with her as she overcomes it all.
Like I said, I couldn't put it down. You might also want to try reading the Out of Time series by Caroline B. Cooney. Kind of the same picture. You will love them!
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Summary: A dissapointment.
Review: Sixteen-year-old Samantha McKenna has just wrecked her dad's precious new BMW, and she's desperate to escape. Clutching her birthday present, an antique locket, she wishes desperately to escape, and finds herself thrown back in time to England in 1553, to the castle of fifteen-year-old King Edward VI. The sickly Edward thinks Sam is his angel, come to take him to heaven. But with her modern knowledge, Sam brings Edward back from the brink of death. As months go by, Sam begins to adjust to life in the past, although she still longs for a way to return home. Then she meets Barnaby, a handsome nobleman, and falls in love with him. But court life in the sixteenth-century is dangerous, and Sam finds her life, and that of her newfound love, in danger. I really though I'd love this book, since I enjoy stories with romance, time travel, and history, and this book has all three. However, the romance between Samantha and Barnaby developed too quickly to be very believable, and the ending was unrealistically happy. The book was enjoyable, but it just needed something more. I don't think I'd recommend buying it, but it might be worth a read if you can get it at the library.
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Summary: A bit disappointing but good for some light reading
Review: Sixteen-year-old Samantha McKenna is your average ordinary modern teen. She can't wait to get her driver's license, she's looking forward to having the party she's been having planned, and can't wait to get to meet 'Kevin the Hunk' up close! But when she wrecks her father's precious BMW, she wishes to was anywhere but home. Strangely enough, by chance while holding onto the strange antique charm hung around her neck (an early birthday present), she is magically transported to... England in the year 1553! She meets the sickly Edward VI who is the young king of England. He is her own age, and Sam knows he is supposed to die at about sixteen. Determined to save his life, she does just that. Soon, the sick king is back to full health and everything seems to go beautifully. But as Sam thinks about returning back to her time, she is swept into the middle of a dangerous situation where her life might be at stake...First off, I must say that I love all stories about history and romance. Judith O'Brien is a terrific writer and after reading the book it was most obvious she had done her research well. The descriptions are vividly written down, life back in the 1550s was certainly not all about beautiful parties and great adventures. The food, the hygiene, the clothes, etc., everything is made into a reality in the story as Sam struggles in extreme 'culture shock'. The characters are on the whole likable. Sam is a bit too ordinary and is nobody really special. An 'ok' main character though she could have been made a bit more interesting. Historical characters such as Edward VI and Jane Grey are pretty well developed, and I especially loved Princess Elizabeth (soon-to-be the wonderful Queen Elizabeth!). The Duke of Northumberland is a 'good' bad guy. Barnaby Fitzpatrick is unfortunately not a character who went through good character development. By the end of the book, we really didn't know anything about his personality or anything. Which brings me to have to explain the reason for my giving only 3 stars for "Timeless Love". For once thing, as I said earlier, both Sam and Barnaby were... I don't know, they just felt flat and one dimensional. I just really couldn't relate to them as much as I would like to with the main characters of a story. And as it is hinted in the title, I can't really classify this as a real 'romance' story since Sam doesn't even meet Barnaby till like your a little more than half way through he book. So the little romance there is feels a bit rushed. Also, it's a bit strange and doesn't fit in with the rest of the story, plus it is too unbelievable. All in all, the story is not that bad. A great book for some light reading, best for teens maybe 14 or older.
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Summary: Grate, Read this book!!!!
Review: This book is grate. It is about this girl that recks her dads BMW. She knows that she is going to get in big trouble, but when her Mother gives her an old charm she puts it on and wishes thst she could be any place but there. The next thing she knows she is in the bedroom of sick King Edward. She knows she as to save him and she does, But after she saves him she falls in love with his best friend. I'm not telling you anymore because
you have to read it.
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Summary: an awesome book
Review: this is a book that combines romance, fantasy, and historical fiction. it is about this girl who accidently wrecks her dad's BMW and is wishing that she could be someware else when she is magically transported to 15th century england. she meets king Edward VI, and in trying to save him from dying(which in truth he did at age 15) she ends up almost causing a revolution. she falls in love with the kings 'whipping boy' and the story goes from there. it is a REALLY good book except i think that maybe girls would enjoy it more, but yeah you should definatly read it.
:-) rachel
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Summary: Timeless Love
Review: This is one of ther best books i have read like ever! and belive me i have read a lot. I found it very fun to read and it kepped me reading it till the end! i never put it down untill i finished it! it was great and i will mostl likely read it many more times. It has made my intrested in history and other things. I really love it because of Barnaby! it is just so cool because i love Ierland and fell in love with hids carecter!
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Summary: Okay
Review: This really could have been a good book but to tell you the truth i was quite a dissapointed. The love story was sort of nice but also really predictable. The main character was annoying and some times just a complete idiot. The only reason i gave this 2 stars is that i like books that mix history with fiction and the auther did a good job at that. Read this book if you would like to but if you enjoy to have a character that you can relate to and a story that is surprising find another book.
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Summary: A bit of a disappointment......
Review: Though many people say that this book was slow and had abad ending, it was overall a good read. Yes, it was vague in places and ridiculously detailed in others, but the vague places didn't need all the detail that would have made it boring. Like in Moby Dick, Melville spent nearly an entire chapter describing the whiteness of the whale. If O'Brien had done that the book would have been dull and uninteresting. As to the ending, it did seem a little too "and they lived happily ever after." It seemed that the ending didn't fit with the rest of the book, for the other parts were truthful and the end seemed, well, too happy. But I gave the book 4 stars because it deserved it. The story was excellent and it deserved no more and no less than 4 stars.
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Summary: Thoughts on Timeless Love
Review: Thoughts on Timeless Love Timeless Love is a book about a teenage girl name Samantha who runs into a bad situation and ends up wishing for an easy way out. This interesting story written by Judith O'Brien is a teen fiction that incorporates both the subjects of history and romance in it. The story starts out with Samantha, also known as Sam, accidentally crashing her father's new BMW. Sam ends up making a wish that she was anywhere else but home because she didn't want to face the consequences her father was going to give her. Incidentally, she was holding the strange charm necklace that her mother gave her while she was making the wish. All of a sudden, Sam ends up feeling dizzy and opens her eyes to realize that she is in England, in the bedchamber of Edward VI, the young king of England in 1553. Edward, who is about her age, looked very ill because he was sick and was going to die at the age of sixteen. Sam knows about Edward's early death from her history book and so she tries to save King Edward from it. She helps to restore the king's health to normal. She may have thought she performed a good deed, but actually she ended up making the lives of thousands of people who Edward ruled, worse. It is not until later that she realized that she isn't in a dream and that she might not ever get to go back home. She then starts to appreciate and value the objects, possessions, and people she took for granted in her life. The experience of being trapped in a different time era and place makes you really think and be grateful for what you have. Sam even misses her annoying brother and even said that she would give p anything just to be back home. In the 1500s, they didn't have television, or running water, or even electricity. But the whole situation wasn't all that horrible. Sam ended up meeting a very handsome guy and even ended up having a crush on him, but this infatuation they had with each other leads to problems later on in the novel. Both jealousy and conspiracy plays a role in aiding the problems to occur. There is also a character named Duke of Northumberland who greatly despises Sam because of all the changes she has brought about in the kingdom. Due to the drastic changes she helped to bring about, while she was by Edward's side, the future ended up changing with it. Sam's interference with the past changed the entire future. When Sam finally returned back home, by making a wish on her necklace, she realized that her home wasn't right. The changed she made while she was in England changed the whole course of history that was suppose to happen. Many of the great inventions and even didn't occur. She then finds a way to fix the problem so that the course of history turns out the way it should and for the greater good of the whole world. Timeless Love is a very enjoyable book to read that anyone would like. This book has many intriguing twists and will keep the readers attention throughout the entire book. The diction and style Judith O'Brien uses is very effective. All of the descriptive words she uses make it possible for the readers to clearly visualize the time period in the 1500s. The reader can actually visualize the clothing and atmosphere back in that time period. This novel is great for teenagers to read on their free time and I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to enjoy reading books about adventure, fantasy, romance, or a little about history.
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Summary: Timeless Bore
Review: Timeless Love, at first glance, seems like a cool book with an interesting premise. That's the reason I bought it. But unfortunately, it was extremely disappointing. It was chock full of lame ideas and not very well written. The cliches and sadly overused plot points were insufferable. It bored me half to death and I barely finished it. That's too bad, because in the hands of someone else, the book might have been really great. I don't recommend it.
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