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Tumbling Through Time
In her sparkling and hilarious debut, author Gwyn Cready introduces Persephone "Seph" Pyle, a total control freak who plans for everything -- until a pair of killer heels sends her back in time and into the arms of a ruggedly handsome sea captain straight from the pages of a romance novel.
Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name from a store window, she tries them on -- only to be swiftly transported back to the eighteenth century and flung aboard a turbulent ship sailing the Mediterranean!
There, Seph is stunned to meet Phillip Drummond, an arrogant British pirate and the spitting image of Tom. Phillip has summoned her back in time to straighten out his complete mess of a life -- for he is the burly hero in the romance novel she someday hopes to write, and she is responsible for his destiny. But in the midst of turning things right so she can get back to reality, Seph starts to fall for the smolderingly sexy Phillip. And when Tom is thrown into the mix, she doesn't know what -- or who -- she wants. Seph soon realizes that spotting the perfect pair of shoes may be easy, but finding the perfect man can be a real trip.
Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name from a store window, she tries them on -- only to be swiftly transported back to the eighteenth century and flung aboard a turbulent ship sailing the Mediterranean!
There, Seph is stunned to meet Phillip Drummond, an arrogant British pirate and the spitting image of Tom. Phillip has summoned her back in time to straighten out his complete mess of a life -- for he is the burly hero in the romance novel she someday hopes to write, and she is responsible for his destiny. But in the midst of turning things right so she can get back to reality, Seph starts to fall for the smolderingly sexy Phillip. And when Tom is thrown into the mix, she doesn't know what -- or who -- she wants. Seph soon realizes that spotting the perfect pair of shoes may be easy, but finding the perfect man can be a real trip.
400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 29, 2008
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Gwyn Cready
11 books144 followersGwyn Cready is a RITA Award-winning romance novelist. She's been called "the master of time travel romance." She lives in Pittsburgh.
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January 10, 2015
This was one of those silly romance novels that kept me laughing throughout the story. Very imaginative storyline about a girl who finds a pair of pink shoes at the Nine West shoe store in an airport that spoke to her and she felt she just must have. Turns out the shoes were sent to her by a gypsy in the 1700’s from one of her characters from a story that she hasn’t quite finished writing yet. The shoes help her time travel back to this Captain that needs her help and change the outcome of his life. The funny part about this character is that he looks exactly like the co-worker she has a crush on. Eventually she gets together with this co-worker and he ends up time-traveling with her (by accident) and he finds out she is writing a book basically with him in mind. Kind of an awkward moment when the two men meet, but very funny and good humor.
August 29, 2008
I had a hard time following this one. The hero was a character in the heroine's unwritten novel, and magicked her into his world with a pair of sparkly pink sandals--but the heroine could look him up in real history books and find out about him. She went back in time--but it was really a figment of her imagination--or was it? One minute, it was almost over the top silly, the next, they were dodging real bullets. And yet, I read it all the way through. I had trouble making sense of it at times, but still, it was an entertaining read.
August 4, 2008
Cute romance/mystery/adventure along the lines of a "Motor Mouth- Janet Evanovich. Some parts seemed to go on a bit too long for me, but in all this was a fun weekend read. I read bits here and there, including in the movie cinema waiting for Journey to the Center of the Earth to begin, and didn't miss a beat. I'm looking forward to her second, Seducing Mr. Darcy.
February 26, 2017
A tight laced business woman, Seph, somehow goes back in time on a privateer's ship via a pair of special shoes. Similar to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, she needs to learn that she had her hearts desire at home if she would really take a look. Seph, however, travels to and from the past and is able to do research, etc to discover needed missing information.
The book was fun and flirty - a great beach read.
The book was fun and flirty - a great beach read.
February 19, 2018
Review coming.
March 24, 2018
Romance, time travel, pirates, humor, and a great pair of heels! What's not to love?
Fun read!
Fun read!
April 14, 2018
Goofy, witty, sexy fun! Might have been just the ebook version - there were a couple of really strangely written sentences, but other than those "wait, what??" bits, a romping good read.
January 1, 2019
Fun time travel romance. Our heroine in the book is an author thrown into her own book, but she doesn't know her history sufficiently to figure things out. Laugh out loud funny at times.
July 9, 2011
Gwyn Cready quickly became one of my favourite romance authors, someone whose books I can always count on to make me laugh and totally absorb me. Original, intelligent plots, fun and sexy characters who never irritate me, and great resolutions to time travel conundrums. This is her first book, which I've come to after reading her other three, but by no means is it weaker for it.
Seph - short for Persephone - works in branding for a large pharmaceutical company. While at the airport with her colleague, Tom, a lawyer, on their way to a big meeting in Italy, Seph finds herself drawn irresistibly to a pair of pink high heels in one of the airport shops. But when she tries them on, she finds herself suddenly whisked away through time and space, ending up on a pirate ship half the world away - and several centuries ago.
The captain is George Drummond, and he's in quite the pickle. Sometime after losing his commission in the navy and taking up privateering until he can get it back, he found his world hijacked by a strange woman's imagination. His name changed to Phillip, his ship turned up in stormy seas near the Mediterranean, and he picked up some unwelcome extra passengers. There is a full moon every night, his favourite cannon has been turned into a table, his bulkheads have become walls and some important documents have disappeared - documents that the British navy need to see so that they can be in the right place at the right time to stop France from becoming the world superpower. They're at war, after all.
With the help of a gypsy woman who's wife to one of his crew, Drummond has summoned the woman who has been rewriting his life (and the weather). Seph had no idea that her fledgling attempts at writing an historical romance novel, which so far consists of scraps of ideas, could have had an impact on a real person. Drummond has brought her to his time to fix things, but Seph has no real control over what's happening - or where the missing documents are. Since Drummond looks scarily like her workmate Tom, who she's had a thing for for ages, there's plenty of attraction brewing between them. More than that, though, is when Seph learns that Drummond is scheduled to hang for treason because of the missing documents - and she's determined to save him. Oh, and keep France from winning the war.
Cready's plots are always hard to summarise, what with time travel and complicated details that make for such an invigorating read, but this one was a bit more linear than some of the others. They all deal with time travel, but in different ways. Unlike the others, though, this one has something of a love triangle between Seph, Drummond and Tom. Both the men were great, and when Tom ends up in the past with Seph things get really interesting.
I just love the humour in these books. This one wasn't as funny as some of the others, which have made me laugh out loud (a tough feat, let me tell you), but it's still there. It just deals with a more serious subject matter. I also love the intelligence in the writing and the plotting, which, frankly, you don't come across all too often in romance fiction. There may be some plot holes in this one, but the storyline was still so much more interesting and layered than what you usually get in romance.
I was a tad disappointed with the lack of, what would you call it, steaminess? There's no actual sex in this book, and the one scene where Seph and Tom get close and intimate it actually skips over it. I felt a bit cheated to be honest. You just tend to expect some more gratuitous, graphic scenes when you read romance - frankly, I don't think I'd read it otherwise, especially when the plots are less than inspiring. It's the sexual tension building up into something climactic that makes it all worthwhile. Though, the sexual tension is very good here, and playing Tom and Drummond off each other (remember, they look identical) was a fun touch.
If you're looking for something a bit more than the usual run-of-the-mill fluff from your romance fiction, I don't hesitate to recommend Cready - especially if you prefer less sex scenes than more, as she doesn't have too much graphic content in her stories. This isn't one of her strongest novels, plot-wise (there were a few points that lost me or seemed forgotten - like, where did Seph's tattoos come from? What's with the shoes, is she really going to live in them the rest of her life?), but it's still a fun read.
Seph - short for Persephone - works in branding for a large pharmaceutical company. While at the airport with her colleague, Tom, a lawyer, on their way to a big meeting in Italy, Seph finds herself drawn irresistibly to a pair of pink high heels in one of the airport shops. But when she tries them on, she finds herself suddenly whisked away through time and space, ending up on a pirate ship half the world away - and several centuries ago.
The captain is George Drummond, and he's in quite the pickle. Sometime after losing his commission in the navy and taking up privateering until he can get it back, he found his world hijacked by a strange woman's imagination. His name changed to Phillip, his ship turned up in stormy seas near the Mediterranean, and he picked up some unwelcome extra passengers. There is a full moon every night, his favourite cannon has been turned into a table, his bulkheads have become walls and some important documents have disappeared - documents that the British navy need to see so that they can be in the right place at the right time to stop France from becoming the world superpower. They're at war, after all.
With the help of a gypsy woman who's wife to one of his crew, Drummond has summoned the woman who has been rewriting his life (and the weather). Seph had no idea that her fledgling attempts at writing an historical romance novel, which so far consists of scraps of ideas, could have had an impact on a real person. Drummond has brought her to his time to fix things, but Seph has no real control over what's happening - or where the missing documents are. Since Drummond looks scarily like her workmate Tom, who she's had a thing for for ages, there's plenty of attraction brewing between them. More than that, though, is when Seph learns that Drummond is scheduled to hang for treason because of the missing documents - and she's determined to save him. Oh, and keep France from winning the war.
Cready's plots are always hard to summarise, what with time travel and complicated details that make for such an invigorating read, but this one was a bit more linear than some of the others. They all deal with time travel, but in different ways. Unlike the others, though, this one has something of a love triangle between Seph, Drummond and Tom. Both the men were great, and when Tom ends up in the past with Seph things get really interesting.
I just love the humour in these books. This one wasn't as funny as some of the others, which have made me laugh out loud (a tough feat, let me tell you), but it's still there. It just deals with a more serious subject matter. I also love the intelligence in the writing and the plotting, which, frankly, you don't come across all too often in romance fiction. There may be some plot holes in this one, but the storyline was still so much more interesting and layered than what you usually get in romance.
I was a tad disappointed with the lack of, what would you call it, steaminess? There's no actual sex in this book, and the one scene where Seph and Tom get close and intimate it actually skips over it. I felt a bit cheated to be honest. You just tend to expect some more gratuitous, graphic scenes when you read romance - frankly, I don't think I'd read it otherwise, especially when the plots are less than inspiring. It's the sexual tension building up into something climactic that makes it all worthwhile. Though, the sexual tension is very good here, and playing Tom and Drummond off each other (remember, they look identical) was a fun touch.
If you're looking for something a bit more than the usual run-of-the-mill fluff from your romance fiction, I don't hesitate to recommend Cready - especially if you prefer less sex scenes than more, as she doesn't have too much graphic content in her stories. This isn't one of her strongest novels, plot-wise (there were a few points that lost me or seemed forgotten - like, where did Seph's tattoos come from? What's with the shoes, is she really going to live in them the rest of her life?), but it's still a fun read.
May 7, 2012
After reading some of Gwyn Cready's other books awhile ago, and enjoying them, I was in the mood for something light so I went back and got this one for my Kindle. Apparently this was her first book. I enjoyed it, but found it very true to what I know to be her formula from other books - modern woman either time travels or somehow is transported into romance novel setting (in this case a pirate ship; the other works were Regency England and Dutch Master's painting studio), and quirky love story ensues with hot native hero - meanwhile simultaneous love story occurs with contemporary hero.
In this case Persephone (Seph) is a fledgling historical romance writer who's been transported into her own book, where she is met with wry indignation by her very own hero, who is a real English privateer ship captain who's had his whole life turned upside down by her wacky romance novel musings.
I will say that Cready clearly has a great imagination, and a true talent for navigating twisty plots in a very clear and transparent way. For these reasons I recommend her. But, this novel lacked a little of the characterization I found in her other, later books. I also think she got a little more comfortable with exactly how much sex to include in later books - that is, more. They're definitely better with more lusty sex in them - let's face it, a novel about romance novels should definitely play up the sex angle. I think Cready found her step a bit better once she was more comfortable with her formula - which, although it is definitely hers and only hers, nevertheless exists. So my recommendation among her work at this point would be Seducing Mr Darcy.
In this case Persephone (Seph) is a fledgling historical romance writer who's been transported into her own book, where she is met with wry indignation by her very own hero, who is a real English privateer ship captain who's had his whole life turned upside down by her wacky romance novel musings.
I will say that Cready clearly has a great imagination, and a true talent for navigating twisty plots in a very clear and transparent way. For these reasons I recommend her. But, this novel lacked a little of the characterization I found in her other, later books. I also think she got a little more comfortable with exactly how much sex to include in later books - that is, more. They're definitely better with more lusty sex in them - let's face it, a novel about romance novels should definitely play up the sex angle. I think Cready found her step a bit better once she was more comfortable with her formula - which, although it is definitely hers and only hers, nevertheless exists. So my recommendation among her work at this point would be Seducing Mr Darcy.
October 15, 2010
Having read Cready's Seducing Mr. Darcy, and genuinely getting a good laugh out of the premise, I was eager to go back and pick up her first published novel. Cready's tongue-in-cheek style and sarcastic come backs are still, delightfully present in this story of Seph, Tom, and Phillip. I still laughed, smiled, and even rolled my eyes a bit at the main character's antics. The idea of going back in time and creating out of the main hero the love interest in your present day is pretty cute. Outside of the personal voice that I enjoy (could that be because I've developed a good deal of snarkiness in teaching teens?), I have to say that I actually got mixed up a good deal in the plot. It wasn't an easy story to follow for me, as it went from present day to the past, with two different male leads. I mainly got mixed up in the past when it delved into the history that Phillip was caught up in. Seph had the stress of trying to save her male lead's life, literally, through the way they shaped time (you know, like in Back to the Future). This made for a somewhat confusing storyline for me, and one that I didn't connect to very quickly.
While I can't say that I particularly loved Tumbling Through Time, I do like Cready's personal voice, which comes through her main female lead characters in this novel and Seducing Mr. Darcy. If you're interested in a funny time travel sort of romance, I'd try her Darcy story first.
While I can't say that I particularly loved Tumbling Through Time, I do like Cready's personal voice, which comes through her main female lead characters in this novel and Seducing Mr. Darcy. If you're interested in a funny time travel sort of romance, I'd try her Darcy story first.
September 16, 2014
3.5 STARS
"Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name from a store window, she tries them on -- only to be swiftly transported back to the eighteenth century and flung aboard a turbulent ship sailing the Mediterranean!
There, Seph is stunned to meet Phillip Drummond, an arrogant British pirate and the spitting image of Tom. Phillip has summoned her back in time to straighten out his complete mess of a life -- for he is the burly hero in the romance novel she someday hopes to write, and she is responsible for his destiny. But in the midst of turning things right so she can get back to reality, Seph starts to fall for the smolderingly sexy Phillip. And when Tom is thrown into the mix, she doesn't know what -- or who -- she wants. Seph soon realizes that spotting the perfect pair of shoes may be easy, but finding the perfect man can be a real trip." (From Amazon)
I read this novel when I did not read historical romances or romances. I enjoyed the light funny time-traveling romance.
"Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name from a store window, she tries them on -- only to be swiftly transported back to the eighteenth century and flung aboard a turbulent ship sailing the Mediterranean!
There, Seph is stunned to meet Phillip Drummond, an arrogant British pirate and the spitting image of Tom. Phillip has summoned her back in time to straighten out his complete mess of a life -- for he is the burly hero in the romance novel she someday hopes to write, and she is responsible for his destiny. But in the midst of turning things right so she can get back to reality, Seph starts to fall for the smolderingly sexy Phillip. And when Tom is thrown into the mix, she doesn't know what -- or who -- she wants. Seph soon realizes that spotting the perfect pair of shoes may be easy, but finding the perfect man can be a real trip." (From Amazon)
I read this novel when I did not read historical romances or romances. I enjoyed the light funny time-traveling romance.
June 29, 2008
I really rather enjoyed this book. Despite all it's appearances of being a "romance" novel, I didn't find it to be very much at all like your standard formula romance fiction (which I, in fact, normally wouldn't even pick up).
It actually had an interesting storyline with some structure and depth instead of just gooey fluff (in comparison to regular Harlequin-style romance). There was a historical aspect to it as well. Whether it's loosely based upon actual facts, I'm not sure (I imagine it probably might be). 1704 England is not something I'm familiar with. Regardless, I liked that there was history woven into it.
I find that I also must like the author for two additional reasons. 1) She's from my hometown, Pittsburgh. 2) She's apparently got very good taste as it seems she fancies Colin Firth, just like I do (and that fact is actually what earned her an extra star!).
I can't wait for her next book, "Seducing Mr. Darcy" which is coming out in August. Hearing about that book is actually what prompted me to read her first novel.
It actually had an interesting storyline with some structure and depth instead of just gooey fluff (in comparison to regular Harlequin-style romance). There was a historical aspect to it as well. Whether it's loosely based upon actual facts, I'm not sure (I imagine it probably might be). 1704 England is not something I'm familiar with. Regardless, I liked that there was history woven into it.
I find that I also must like the author for two additional reasons. 1) She's from my hometown, Pittsburgh. 2) She's apparently got very good taste as it seems she fancies Colin Firth, just like I do (and that fact is actually what earned her an extra star!).
I can't wait for her next book, "Seducing Mr. Darcy" which is coming out in August. Hearing about that book is actually what prompted me to read her first novel.
July 4, 2012
I could not put this down! I picked it up in a used book sale because a)I like time travel romance, especially the funny ones, and b)it had a cover blurb by Evanovich. I was reading it as a paperback, not an ebook, and I thought OMG it is so many pages (doesn't bother me in e-, problem in paper, esp soft cover, now) I'll never finish it.
I wouldn't even get up to "refresh myself" without hitting the pain point first. It was funny premise (one Kasey Michaels has used, too, I believe) of a romance writer's character coming to life. But the set up is that she's just thinking about writing a novel, hasn't yet; knows very little apparently about the time period for her historical romance resulting in difficulties for her character; and her modern-day romance interest collides with her distant time travel fictional/historical character.
And, then there's the shoes: pink taffeta ribbon, kitten-heeled sandals in a size 8. Who wouldn't fall in love with an author who creates SEXY shoes for real-sized women? loved it.
I wouldn't even get up to "refresh myself" without hitting the pain point first. It was funny premise (one Kasey Michaels has used, too, I believe) of a romance writer's character coming to life. But the set up is that she's just thinking about writing a novel, hasn't yet; knows very little apparently about the time period for her historical romance resulting in difficulties for her character; and her modern-day romance interest collides with her distant time travel fictional/historical character.
And, then there's the shoes: pink taffeta ribbon, kitten-heeled sandals in a size 8. Who wouldn't fall in love with an author who creates SEXY shoes for real-sized women? loved it.
December 22, 2008
Persephone "Seph" Pyle is a take-no-risks type of woman who has a crush on her co-worker Tom Fraser. Just before they board a plane for a business trip to Europe Seph tries on a pair of pink shoes that zap her onto a ship in the year 1706 where she is confronted with a near duplicate of Tom, but calls himself Captain Philip "Drum" Drummond.
This is no ordinary time travel novel though, Drum tells her that he is the hero of the book she is going to write. Unfortunately her vague grasp of nautical life and history have had him dealing with hurricanes every morning, odd characters that suddenly need transportation, and missing documents essential to the war effort.
Thus far it's clever, but the plot becomes bizarrely convoluted and drags so often that even the witty repartee between the heroine and her two identical suitors can't save it. And really, their verbal exchanges are quite funny. For this alone I will give the author another try.
This is no ordinary time travel novel though, Drum tells her that he is the hero of the book she is going to write. Unfortunately her vague grasp of nautical life and history have had him dealing with hurricanes every morning, odd characters that suddenly need transportation, and missing documents essential to the war effort.
Thus far it's clever, but the plot becomes bizarrely convoluted and drags so often that even the witty repartee between the heroine and her two identical suitors can't save it. And really, their verbal exchanges are quite funny. For this alone I will give the author another try.
August 5, 2011
I really didn't expect to like this book. I read the blurb and it put me off completely, it seemed too cheesy and ridiculous, but i was on holiday with nothing else left to read, so i gave it a go.
I'm so glad i did, because i ended up loving it, i couldn't put it down!
I really enjoyed the plot, the idea that characters in books come alive and are real people who are affected by our writing, i think it's a great thought.
I loved all the characters and the end of the pirate story, and found that it was quite a tense build up, but i think that may be because i was completely absored by this book so it seemed to build and build and build, and it didn't really disappoint me.
The only annoying thing was the name of the main character, "Seph", i kept saying "Steph" in my head, but obviously that's just down to my brain in overdrive!
Obviously this book is not going to be life changing or ground breaking, but it was indulgent and i loved it.
I'm so glad i did, because i ended up loving it, i couldn't put it down!
I really enjoyed the plot, the idea that characters in books come alive and are real people who are affected by our writing, i think it's a great thought.
I loved all the characters and the end of the pirate story, and found that it was quite a tense build up, but i think that may be because i was completely absored by this book so it seemed to build and build and build, and it didn't really disappoint me.
The only annoying thing was the name of the main character, "Seph", i kept saying "Steph" in my head, but obviously that's just down to my brain in overdrive!
Obviously this book is not going to be life changing or ground breaking, but it was indulgent and i loved it.
October 10, 2009
Book #88 of 2009
I did not enjoy this as much as Gwyn Cready's sophmore outing, Seducing Mr. Darcy. I found the beginning quite confusing. For example, Seph's new pink shoes take her back in time to a ship of, apparently, her own imagination. A while later, Seph is having visions of showering and sleeping in these magical pink shoes because... well, she can't take them off. But it felt like there was a link missing because no where did anyone even ATTEMPT to take the shoes off and discover they couldn't.
I also found the ending to be so... anticlimatic.
It was a rather funny, and quite well paced once you got past the messy beginning. It was an OK read, but not a favorite.
Borrrowed from the library
I did not enjoy this as much as Gwyn Cready's sophmore outing, Seducing Mr. Darcy. I found the beginning quite confusing. For example, Seph's new pink shoes take her back in time to a ship of, apparently, her own imagination. A while later, Seph is having visions of showering and sleeping in these magical pink shoes because... well, she can't take them off. But it felt like there was a link missing because no where did anyone even ATTEMPT to take the shoes off and discover they couldn't.
I also found the ending to be so... anticlimatic.
It was a rather funny, and quite well paced once you got past the messy beginning. It was an OK read, but not a favorite.
Borrrowed from the library
September 28, 2009
I love time travels and was looking forward to a book with a privateer who looked like Colin Firth. However, the cutesy dialogue started to grate on my nerves, and the plot was a bit confusing. The fact that the heroine was a wannabe-romance writer intrigued me as a premise, but I think her character could've been more developed. As a reader who also loves historicals, I was disappointed that these characters were merely figments of the heroine's imagination. I found myself wishing they were real and the heroine, along with her modern boyfriend Tom, were the ones who were imaginary. I WANT to read Seducing Mr. Darcy, but reading this first gives me doubts.
July 29, 2010
I'd been looking forward to reading this book as the synopsis sounded very appealing to me, however I was quickly disappointed. The first 100 pages or so dragged and it made no sense to me that the character "Drum" was a fictitious character from Seph's book and also an actual person from history. The author should have made a decision for him to be one or the other but not both. The book did start to pick up again towards the end, only to be ruined by what in my opinion was a disappointing ending. "Seducing Mr Darcy" is another book by the same author which sounds really good but after wasting so much time on this awful book I'm put off reading anything else from Gwyn Cready.
November 23, 2014
A rollicking, ridiculous mess of a book that comes damn close to redeeming itself through sheer cheek (and by the thorough application of sassmouth). It's clearly a freshman effort, what with the slipshod and nonsensical plot, but somehow you wind up charmed by the whole thing, rather than just chucking it against the wall. Which is saying something, given we're talking about time traveling shoes as a major plot device.
May 13, 2008
OK, I went slumming for Mother's Day. This time-travel romance exhibited the usual problems with the genre--no grounding in romance or physics. The review on GoodReads said something like sparkling and hilarious. Not. About as satisfying as marshmallow fluff, but I do need to feed my sweet tooth sometimes.
August 13, 2010
I liked the book, but, it confused me at the end. I mean where was the HEA( Happily Ever After). I had to read the last 3 pages 3 times to figure out what exactly happened. Don't get me wrong it was funny and well done, just very little romance, mostly story. I will be reading the next in the series.
July 19, 2011
This the first novel I've read by Gwen Cready, and I have to say that her voice is hilarious and absorbing. I was laughing out loud often enough for my family to question it! However,the heroine hops back and forth through time and between idnetical past romatic lead vs. current love interest twins often enough that i got confused and had to back track to clarify the plot twists.
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November 7, 2011DNF
Okay time traveling romances are tricky and admittedly I don't generally like them, but this one was based on the one thing that drives me insane--protagonist is a romance writer. Add on the fact that the hero is the character she's writing and shoot me now. I can't read it. Absolutely not, thank you.
Okay time traveling romances are tricky and admittedly I don't generally like them, but this one was based on the one thing that drives me insane--protagonist is a romance writer. Add on the fact that the hero is the character she's writing and shoot me now. I can't read it. Absolutely not, thank you.
January 15, 2013
I just couldn't get into this one. I made it to page 92 but it was hard. The characters didn't work for me and I didn't understand the whole written story idea. Was the main ship cpt real or just a made up character by the girl in the story? How did he get caught up in her story and how was it suppose to be changing history ? Too confusing.
October 13, 2008
I enjoyed it. I liked the time traveling and that the pirate--oops--privateer wants the heroine to finish her story so he's not in situations he shouldn't be in. She time travels but so does the man she lusts after in the present day. It's interesting when the two men meet. Fun!
August 11, 2011
I love romance time travels and i was expecting more from this story. I liked the fact that she wrote the girl as a little overweight but it was obvious that Gwyn Cready wrote Persephone as herself. I didnt like the characters either. Perhaps it was a little to modern for me.
April 18, 2012
I am not big on historical romances and this one takes the cake.plot was bog believeable and the writing was poor. I will give it one star because I did keep reading instead of giving up. And there were several bits where I chucked at her jokes, but overall, a waste of time
October 28, 2014
This book is very funny.The heroine has quite a sense of humor. It is also suspenseful, violent and sexy. Traveling through time and landing on a deck of a ship in the 18th century is not my idea of a good time but this heroine does it and finds her true love too.
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April 3, 2016DNF.
This was my first foray into time travel romance, and I thought I'd love it, but the author's writing style was so grating. I hate when the writing tries to hard to be funny/cute/witty. Sometimes it works and sometimes it's just off-putting. I couldn't even get to page 100 with this.
This was my first foray into time travel romance, and I thought I'd love it, but the author's writing style was so grating. I hate when the writing tries to hard to be funny/cute/witty. Sometimes it works and sometimes it's just off-putting. I couldn't even get to page 100 with this.
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