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Wings of Time
Librarian Note: This edition's ISBN is in conflict with another's in the database - An Eagle Swooped.
If the thunder don't get ya, the lightning will
Chicago, 1925:
Al Capone and Bugs Moran, the biggest bootleggers of the century, want a certain suitcase stowed away on Shamus Fitzgerald's airplane. To get it, they'll gladly pump Shamus full of holes.
Wisconsin, 1993:
Libby Carmichael flies her antique plane into a thunderstorm. She's about to die. Then lightning strikes: Libby is thrown back in time. Swooping out of a suddenly clear sky, she rescues Shamus from a carload of gun-toting gangsters.
So begins the story of Libby and Shamus, an adventure that defies time, a romance that dares fate...
If the thunder don't get ya, the lightning will
Chicago, 1925:
Al Capone and Bugs Moran, the biggest bootleggers of the century, want a certain suitcase stowed away on Shamus Fitzgerald's airplane. To get it, they'll gladly pump Shamus full of holes.
Wisconsin, 1993:
Libby Carmichael flies her antique plane into a thunderstorm. She's about to die. Then lightning strikes: Libby is thrown back in time. Swooping out of a suddenly clear sky, she rescues Shamus from a carload of gun-toting gangsters.
So begins the story of Libby and Shamus, an adventure that defies time, a romance that dares fate...
- GenresTime Travel
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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May 26, 2021
Wings of Time was a typical time travel romance written in the early 1990s except for the time period of the storyline. Rather than the heroine landing somewhere in the 1800s, Libby Carmichael, a pilot, traveled back to Chicago in 1925.
Bootleggers, Prohibition, Bugs Moran and Al Capone ruled the day. Naturally, Libby was secretive after saving Shamus Fitzgerald, the hero. The guy was a product of the times and had a difficult time believing she flew “aeroplanes” let alone understanding her different personality.
I managed to read the romance over a week: not bad, not great. Let’s just say, middle of the road.
If you love the early 1900s and want to read a much better romance with a time travel element, may I suggest Amy Harmon’s What the Wind Knows? Or perhaps you might like Elizabeth Hallem’s Yesterday's Flame about a modern day smoke jumper? This romance was on a similar level with Wings of Time.
Then there are the numerous TT romances where the heroine finds herself unexpectedly in the 1800s:
Judie Aitken’s A Love Beyond Time or Distant Echoes.
Deb Stover’s Another Dawn
Carolyn Lampman’s A Window in Time
Elizabeth Crane’s Reflections in Time
Rosalyn Alsobrook’s Time Storm
Madeline Baker’s Feather in the Wind
Leslie Lafoy’s It Happened One Night
Jenny Lykin’s Waiting for Yesterday
Susan Plunkett’s Heaven's Time
Victoria Presley’s Yesterday and Forever
Rebecca Flander’s Yesterday Comes Tomorrow
Or, how about where the H jumps into his future and the author’s present day with Sherry Lewis’s An Echo in Time? Or Susan Delaney’s A Star to Sail by?
Did you say you are interested in a dark vampire TT fantasy? Then look no further than Natalia Lincoln’s The Mirror. But beware, it is not for the squeamish.
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I went through a TT splurge between 2008 and 2011. I still search for an interesting romance that crosses time. I’ve read quite a few stories with this genre, not all of them good. Many of the stories had cookie cutter plots. Just remember I rated them years ago and my tastes have changed.
Bootleggers, Prohibition, Bugs Moran and Al Capone ruled the day. Naturally, Libby was secretive after saving Shamus Fitzgerald, the hero. The guy was a product of the times and had a difficult time believing she flew “aeroplanes” let alone understanding her different personality.
I managed to read the romance over a week: not bad, not great. Let’s just say, middle of the road.
If you love the early 1900s and want to read a much better romance with a time travel element, may I suggest Amy Harmon’s What the Wind Knows? Or perhaps you might like Elizabeth Hallem’s Yesterday's Flame about a modern day smoke jumper? This romance was on a similar level with Wings of Time.
Then there are the numerous TT romances where the heroine finds herself unexpectedly in the 1800s:
Judie Aitken’s A Love Beyond Time or Distant Echoes.
Deb Stover’s Another Dawn
Carolyn Lampman’s A Window in Time
Elizabeth Crane’s Reflections in Time
Rosalyn Alsobrook’s Time Storm
Madeline Baker’s Feather in the Wind
Leslie Lafoy’s It Happened One Night
Jenny Lykin’s Waiting for Yesterday
Susan Plunkett’s Heaven's Time
Victoria Presley’s Yesterday and Forever
Rebecca Flander’s Yesterday Comes Tomorrow
Or, how about where the H jumps into his future and the author’s present day with Sherry Lewis’s An Echo in Time? Or Susan Delaney’s A Star to Sail by?
Did you say you are interested in a dark vampire TT fantasy? Then look no further than Natalia Lincoln’s The Mirror. But beware, it is not for the squeamish.
~~~~~
I went through a TT splurge between 2008 and 2011. I still search for an interesting romance that crosses time. I’ve read quite a few stories with this genre, not all of them good. Many of the stories had cookie cutter plots. Just remember I rated them years ago and my tastes have changed.
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