Follow Me

by Mary Beth Bass

Keats, coffee, 19th century medicine, 21st century angst, romantic ghosts, and accepting your true self, your strong identity without justification or apology.

Genres: Time Travel, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

I write dreamy, lyrical science fiction and fantasy romance novels for adults and teens. My stories are hopeful and darkly romantic, which is kind of how I live my life. Every morning I hike up a hill in a forest-park in the middle of my hard-working city to a ruined Victorian castle shaded by pine trees. And then on the best days, which are frequent enough that I’m grateful all the time, I sit in my favorite Mexican restaurant with my favorite band thundering in my ears, drinking a margarita, eating tofu with black beans and rice, and write romance novels until darkness falls.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting love story. Overall, I enjoyed it.

[Jeff Russell · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title of this novel – Follow Me – is wonderfully appropriate, as it relates to the story’s connection to seventeenth-century poetry and to a plea on the part of the lead characters to connect with each other over place and time. I believe it is also an invitation by the author for readers to follow her as she traces the lives of two people who lived a century-and-a-half apart yet may, in fact, be the same person. The story, which is sensual at times but more often filled with the anguish of separation, shifts between now and then but the scenes were clearly delineated and the parallels between what was happening in the present and simultaneously occurring in the past made reading this an intriguing experience. The Black Hound Inn and the mysterious Mr. Moulton serve as anchors, present in both times (think the mailbox in ‘The Lake House’). This is definitely a good exercise for those who enjoy puzzles.

It is clear that considerable effort went into planning the storyline – from setup to a very impressive conclusion – and conducting the medical and historical research that added greatly to the story’s credibility. I expect to read this again, as I’m sure there is more to it than I picked up on the first time through and I want to enjoy every facet of this gem.

[Abigail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall I thought this was a pretty good book. At first I had a hard time of really getting into because of my dislike of Claire's boyfriend, Ian. I really could not stand how he always had to throw little comments at her to belittle her for every little thing she did.

Anyway, after I got past that the book was pretty good. There was a lot of bouncing around from the present to the 1800's but it was pretty easy to follow.

It's a story about a girl, Claire who is haunted by her past. She had an incredible night of passion with a man who she felt was the love of her life. This man was a person she could only assume as a ghost. This book is about her trying to get on with her life with her boyfriend and forget about the man who she felt that she's always known.

It's not the best book I've ever read, but it was pretty good.