Forever and a Day

by Victoria Chancellor

Returning to her grandmother's South Carolina beach house, Linda O'Rourke is unable to forget the passionate dreams that had plagued her there years earlier and meets Gifford Knight, a man who exactly resembles her dream lover. Original.

400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

Reviews

[Barbara Ziblis · Rating 2 out of 5]

First off I want to say that if there was an editor for this book they gave up about half-way through because that's when I started noticing mistakes. There were more mistakes in this book than in most books I read even the poorly edited ones.

I did not like that the entire basis for the story rests on Giff having put a spell on the girl to make her love him. The whole time I was reading the book I felt creeped out about that. Especially since he doesn't tell her it was his fault. She thinks the spell started from the evil entity but no, it was Giff. This isn't really a spoiler we find out in the first few chapters. Basically Giff and Linda are reincarnated over and over their love destined to doom and he needs to break the spell. The spell that was his own fault. Because as a young Saxon lad he'd been "in love" with this girl, this girl that everyone in the village loved. The girl who flirted around but never took any guy seriously, and btw she was too young for marriage anyway. Which I guess means she was just a child. The reincarnated doom only happened when the sorcerer he paid to cast the spell decided he loved the girl too so he changed the spell to punish them. Later when she finds out she basically shrugs it off as "oh you were young and impetuous and I was a shameless flirt who deserved it". She also later claims she loved him even before the spell but had not said anything. Do keep in mind, though, that this book was written in the 90s when this sort of thing was more acceptable in romance books.

I also got tired of some of the over dramatic stuff. There's only so many times you can have the one big kiss that binds your souls for eternity. But that seems like an editing problem again, because some of them were almost word for word identical. Like the author meant to only put one but was into her writing and forgot she'd already used the line. A good editor would have caught that and told her to change one of them. Buuut I'm not technically an editor, I just like to armchair edit. So maybe I'm wrong.

[Mary Chrapliwy · Rating 4 out of 5]

So sad to see this book average is so low. Maybe because I read it in two days, I was more invested in the story.

Linda O'Rourke has left her urban life and has gone out to the sparsely populated town where her grandmother lived. Having just passed away, she has left a house full of memories, and an old Ouji board that Linda and her childhood friend used. Linda reaches A soldier named William and he shares stories with her about the past. She falls in love with him, but a demon named Mord invades the game and Linda never touches the Ouji board again.

Fast forward to the present. She meets a stunningly handsome writer, Gifford Knight, who seems to know her somehow, and they begin dating. I don't want to say much more other then the demon entering the picture bent on destroying both of them.

Thought not a classic, this was a very good read. It read more like a fantasy novel until a sizzling sex scene reminded me that it was a romance. I do recommend this book to anyone who likes romance with a bit of magic involved.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoy this interesting read. A few grammar and spelling issues. Overall a nice read