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A Time for Us
Middlesbrough, England, 1413. Ailith deCotmer is the only child of the astrologer Galen. But their cruel liege, Lord Preston Claybourne, is smitten with Ailith's young beauty, and Galen believes that time travel is the only way she can escape his unwanted attention...
New Orleans, 1998. Joshua Claybourne Kenley, president of a medievalist club, literally bumps into a young woman dressed in medieval clothing—but he knows she isn't a member of the club. It is Ailith, who realizes by her shockingly unfamiliar surroundings that she has been catapulted through time...
Joshua doesn't believe for a moment that this beautiful stranger has traveled through time. But despite his practical nature, he cannot resist Ailith, who is both bewildered and delighted by the modern gadgets and her new way of life. As he rescues her from several hilarious mishaps, he falls deeply in love—and the two plan a wedding. But Ailith wants her parents to join her in the present world, so she plans a trip back in time. She only hopes she'll be able to return to the present that she loves as much as Joshua...
New Orleans, 1998. Joshua Claybourne Kenley, president of a medievalist club, literally bumps into a young woman dressed in medieval clothing—but he knows she isn't a member of the club. It is Ailith, who realizes by her shockingly unfamiliar surroundings that she has been catapulted through time...
Joshua doesn't believe for a moment that this beautiful stranger has traveled through time. But despite his practical nature, he cannot resist Ailith, who is both bewildered and delighted by the modern gadgets and her new way of life. As he rescues her from several hilarious mishaps, he falls deeply in love—and the two plan a wedding. But Ailith wants her parents to join her in the present world, so she plans a trip back in time. She only hopes she'll be able to return to the present that she loves as much as Joshua...
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1998
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September 10, 2023
Some time travel novels are really great, others are pretty crummy, and this one fell somewhere in between. It's entertaining but flawed. You won't feel you wasted your time by reading it, but if you don't read it, it's not a terrible loss.
February 21, 2023
Unlike the novel itself I will try to make the summary and review as quiet and painless as I can. The heroine is a the very beautiful daughter of His lordship’s astronomer. She and her family never did understand why His Lordship favoured them so or why the heroine was educated as a Lady rather than the peasant that she is but now they do. The Earl wants the heroine as his Leman, his mistress. Horrified, the heroine refuses the offer but the Earl is not a man to be denied. He threatens her parent’s imprisonment if she does not comply and worse of all, the heroine actually desires him as a man. It's just his soul that is rotten. But her parents have a plan to see her secreted away. Her father has reputed to have built a time machine but when they discover the machine broken, the heroine is secretly pleased because she does not want to be sent to an unknown time. But as it turns out, she doesn't have a choice. A friend of her father, a man of great magic, sends her forward in time thanks to a a traveling orb.
Waking up in the strange tent of a naked man, she is stunned to see His Lordship before her. But at a second glance, the man is not the Earl though he does resemble him a great deal. No, this man has softer eyes.... if is he does have that harsh temper. The hero is furious when he finds a strange woman in his tent while he's changing. He and his girlfriend are not on the best of terms and the last thing he needs is another woman in the mix. He's being pressured to marry by his controlling mother and though he's beginning to have doubts about his girlfriend, he feels the need to work things out with her. So, he kicks the young woman out of his tent and believes that problem to be solved. Only, the heroine has nowhere to go. So, for the next 3 days she hides in the hero's closet, sneaking food from the kitchen and bathing when no one else is around. She also spends this time familiarizing herself with the strange new time she's found herself in. When the hero stumbles once again upon the young woman in his house when he's changing, he isn't so furious this time. He's spent days regretting how he treated her and now he has a chance to make it better. Though he must hide her. If anyone discovers he's kept a beautiful woman in his bedroom while his girlfriend and parents have come to visit, they will make him marry her. But as time passes, the hero finds himself falling in love with her. The heroine too loves this man she has traveled almost 500 years to meet. But she must return to her time to fetch her parents, not willing to leave them to the fate His Lordship has in mind for them. The hero must come as well, not willing to let his pregnant wife risk the dangerous of the 1400's alone.
This was a horrid book. The first thing that tipped me off to the pain and suffering I was to experience was the fact that the author would change POV's like nobody's business. In one page, the point of view would just from the hero to the heroine and back to the hero again. It was stupidly frequent and this jarred me out of the story. The second thing that tipped me off was the completely unnecessary over dramatics. The hero was a dick. He would scream and snap at everyone who came his way and he got angry over situations that he had no business getting THAT angry over. A naked woman in his house? The heroine eating too much sweets and getting a tummy ache? Dude just chill out. With my dislike for the characters as a whole, the horrid writing style and the uneventful plot, all came together to make a book that I spent my Saturday reading. What a waste of time.
Waking up in the strange tent of a naked man, she is stunned to see His Lordship before her. But at a second glance, the man is not the Earl though he does resemble him a great deal. No, this man has softer eyes.... if is he does have that harsh temper. The hero is furious when he finds a strange woman in his tent while he's changing. He and his girlfriend are not on the best of terms and the last thing he needs is another woman in the mix. He's being pressured to marry by his controlling mother and though he's beginning to have doubts about his girlfriend, he feels the need to work things out with her. So, he kicks the young woman out of his tent and believes that problem to be solved. Only, the heroine has nowhere to go. So, for the next 3 days she hides in the hero's closet, sneaking food from the kitchen and bathing when no one else is around. She also spends this time familiarizing herself with the strange new time she's found herself in. When the hero stumbles once again upon the young woman in his house when he's changing, he isn't so furious this time. He's spent days regretting how he treated her and now he has a chance to make it better. Though he must hide her. If anyone discovers he's kept a beautiful woman in his bedroom while his girlfriend and parents have come to visit, they will make him marry her. But as time passes, the hero finds himself falling in love with her. The heroine too loves this man she has traveled almost 500 years to meet. But she must return to her time to fetch her parents, not willing to leave them to the fate His Lordship has in mind for them. The hero must come as well, not willing to let his pregnant wife risk the dangerous of the 1400's alone.
This was a horrid book. The first thing that tipped me off to the pain and suffering I was to experience was the fact that the author would change POV's like nobody's business. In one page, the point of view would just from the hero to the heroine and back to the hero again. It was stupidly frequent and this jarred me out of the story. The second thing that tipped me off was the completely unnecessary over dramatics. The hero was a dick. He would scream and snap at everyone who came his way and he got angry over situations that he had no business getting THAT angry over. A naked woman in his house? The heroine eating too much sweets and getting a tummy ache? Dude just chill out. With my dislike for the characters as a whole, the horrid writing style and the uneventful plot, all came together to make a book that I spent my Saturday reading. What a waste of time.
July 23, 2016
A Time For Us by Christine Holden
I enjoyed this story. It was time travel from the past to the present.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
Middlesbrough, England, 1413. Ailith deCotmer is the only child of the astrologer Galen. But their cruel liege, Lord Preston Claybourne, is smitten with Ailith's young beauty, and Galen believes that time travel is the only way she can escape his unwanted attention...
New Orleans, 1998. Joshua Claybourne Kenley, president of a medievalist club, literally bumps into a young woman dressed in medieval clothing—but he knows she isn't a member of the club. It is Ailith, who realizes by her shockingly unfamiliar surroundings that she has been catapulted through time...
Joshua doesn't believe for a moment that this beautiful stranger has traveled through time. But despite his practical nature, he cannot resist Ailith, who is both bewildered and delighted by the modern gadgets and her new way of life. As he rescues her from several hilarious mishaps, he falls deeply in love—and the two plan a wedding. But Ailith wants her parents to join her in the present world, so she plans a trip back in time. She only hopes she'll be able to return to the present that she loves as much as Joshua...
I enjoyed this story. It was time travel from the past to the present.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
Middlesbrough, England, 1413. Ailith deCotmer is the only child of the astrologer Galen. But their cruel liege, Lord Preston Claybourne, is smitten with Ailith's young beauty, and Galen believes that time travel is the only way she can escape his unwanted attention...
New Orleans, 1998. Joshua Claybourne Kenley, president of a medievalist club, literally bumps into a young woman dressed in medieval clothing—but he knows she isn't a member of the club. It is Ailith, who realizes by her shockingly unfamiliar surroundings that she has been catapulted through time...
Joshua doesn't believe for a moment that this beautiful stranger has traveled through time. But despite his practical nature, he cannot resist Ailith, who is both bewildered and delighted by the modern gadgets and her new way of life. As he rescues her from several hilarious mishaps, he falls deeply in love—and the two plan a wedding. But Ailith wants her parents to join her in the present world, so she plans a trip back in time. She only hopes she'll be able to return to the present that she loves as much as Joshua...
February 2, 2016
Meh.
There wasn't anything particularly bad about this book, but nothing really stood out either.
There wasn't anything particularly bad about this book, but nothing really stood out either.
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