This is an OK time-travel romance, featuring the Merriweather sisters' Aunt Mildred, and the time-traveling knight (from the 1300's) she falls for. It is actually a 2nd prequel to the entire series, but you don't have to read it first. For those who like clean romances, with no sex scenes, this series is perfect for you. It has kisses, but no sex scenes at all.
I have liked all the books so far in this series. I liked this one, too, but I found it hard to like Mildred. She was so closed off and often mean to her sisters and her nieces. I get that it was because of what happened to her when she was young (no spoilers here, though) -- but that was no excuse to treat her family so badly. I did like how she finally opened up to Karen after losing her sisters and her nieces, but it bothered me that she spent so many years treating her family badly.
I liked Drake a lot, and thought his story was sad. What he endured was difficult, but he managed to still be a good person anyway. I was glad when he and Mildred finally found their HEA.
I also thought it was unbelievable that all of the Merriweather women would meet their loves through time-travel -- I get that time-travel is a fantasy anyway, but for all of them to just happen to meet men from the 1300's? I didn't buy it.
This book gets 3 stars from me. It would have gotten more if Mildred had not taken her pain out on her family.
My rating system is below.
1 star -- Hated it, or did not finish. I usually only give this rating if some of the content is truly objectionable to me, like if one of the main characters does something really awful, and gets away with it.
2 stars -- Didn't like it. This rating usually means that I thought the writing wasn't very good, the editing was terrible, I didn't like the characters, or it had other major flaws.
3 stars -- I liked it, but had some minor issues with it. This rating means that there were minor editing issues, the story needed more character development, it was just too unrealistic, or had some other fairly minor issue. The majority of books I read get this rating – I do not consider it a bad rating.
4 stars -- I liked it a lot. This is a high rating for me, and I rarely give a higher one.
5 stars -- I loved it, and will probably read it again. Very few books are good enough to get this rating from me. The ones that do are usually classics.