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When Lightning Strikes
During a magical storm, romance writer Alaina Costanza is hurled back in time, into the Western world of her latest novel. There she is kidnapped by her own character, a ruthless outlaw known only as Killian. Thrown together by fate, Alaina and Killian will discover a love too magnificent to last a single lifetime. But even magic has a price, and time is running out. For the sake of Alaina's child, they must risk it all and fight for a future than depends on lightning striking . . . twice.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1994
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About the author
Kristin Hannah
140 books290k followersKristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. In 2018,
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023.
Her new novel, The Women, about a young woman coming of age during the turbulent 1960's in America, who joins the Army Nurse Corps and serves in Vietnam will be published February 6th, 2024.
A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023.
Her new novel, The Women, about a young woman coming of age during the turbulent 1960's in America, who joins the Army Nurse Corps and serves in Vietnam will be published February 6th, 2024.
A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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November 10, 2022
My least favorite of Kristin Hannah’s books. The story dragged with not much character or plot development.
December 2, 2022
This was such a boring book with a drawn-out cliched plot. It should have been category length not 400 pages long!
The setup is rather intriguing at first. Alaina Costanza is a single mother and a romance writer living in the present day. Or whenever Geraldo Rivera had a talk show, so maybe "modern era' would be more appropriate. During a storm, Alaina finds herself transplanted back in time. She finds herself in the setting of one of her books: the Wild West.
What's more is Alaina isn't just in the time period her book is set in... she's in the actual book, with the hero and the villain. Alaina finds herself kidnapped by her villain, a ruthless outlaw known only as Killian. Fate has thrown them together for a reason.
This could have been a great book, but rather than being action based it was bogged down by internal angst. Chapters went by where nothing literally happened. Very cliched, with a black woman who somehow has mystical insights into the heroine's relationship with the hero.
Boring, sappy and just went on for too long!
The setup is rather intriguing at first. Alaina Costanza is a single mother and a romance writer living in the present day. Or whenever Geraldo Rivera had a talk show, so maybe "modern era' would be more appropriate. During a storm, Alaina finds herself transplanted back in time. She finds herself in the setting of one of her books: the Wild West.
What's more is Alaina isn't just in the time period her book is set in... she's in the actual book, with the hero and the villain. Alaina finds herself kidnapped by her villain, a ruthless outlaw known only as Killian. Fate has thrown them together for a reason.
This could have been a great book, but rather than being action based it was bogged down by internal angst. Chapters went by where nothing literally happened. Very cliched, with a black woman who somehow has mystical insights into the heroine's relationship with the hero.
Boring, sappy and just went on for too long!
November 2, 2022
Very repetitive, feelings going back and forth, back and forth. Escape - caught, escape - caught. Going back in time is a plot that she has used several times. But the book was boring, up until the end. Not enough excitement to make up for most of the book. Would not recommend.
August 3, 2018
İkinci Şans....Bitirirken ağlattı beni...Fantastik ve gizemi çok da güzel harmanlanmış...Kurgu muhteşem,sevdiğini kaybetmenin acısını o kadar güzel anlatmış ki...Okuyun bence...
August 22, 2010
Let me say that I love a good time-travel romance.
Alaina "Lainie" and Killian each have scarred pasts. They meet up when Lainie finds herself in 1896 Arizona. Unfortunately for half the book she considers herself dreaming. Of course, Killian thinks she might be crazy but there is a pull between the two of them with plenty of tension. I would have enjoyed seeing a smoother transition of their love for each other. Their relationship is bumpy and I was surprised that Killian considered letting his men have their way with her.
I can't put a handle on Ms. Hannah's books yet since this is only my second one that I've read of hers. It seems like there is plenty of promise when the books start out but everything should flow smoother. I would still consider reading other books of hers; I am just hoping that her writing style will improve.
Alaina "Lainie" and Killian each have scarred pasts. They meet up when Lainie finds herself in 1896 Arizona. Unfortunately for half the book she considers herself dreaming. Of course, Killian thinks she might be crazy but there is a pull between the two of them with plenty of tension. I would have enjoyed seeing a smoother transition of their love for each other. Their relationship is bumpy and I was surprised that Killian considered letting his men have their way with her.
I can't put a handle on Ms. Hannah's books yet since this is only my second one that I've read of hers. It seems like there is plenty of promise when the books start out but everything should flow smoother. I would still consider reading other books of hers; I am just hoping that her writing style will improve.
January 24, 2019
It is AMAZING to me that this author went on to later write what I consider to be the two best fiction novels I’ve ever read (The Nightingale and The Great Alone). This is a bad romance novel, but I’ll refrain from criticizing it in detail because, again, this author has grown leaps and bounds in the last 25 years since this was published. Hannah fans should stick with her later works.
March 31, 2020
I am still struggling to finish this. I thought it started great very unusual plot with the time travel novelist mixed with a western. Then it went downhill when they got back to camp and Killian turned wimpy and the book turned into a cheesy romance novel. I hate all the internal drama in romance novels. With pages and pages of Killian feeling pain and thinking he couldn't help Lainie because he will just mess it up and Lainie with all her fear and internal struggling this book is boring. I think it could have still been a good book if you could take out 100 pages of pining and whining.
I am to the point I don't care what happens, but will probably trudge through for the reading challenge I'm doing.
I am to the point I don't care what happens, but will probably trudge through for the reading challenge I'm doing.
August 14, 2024
My 22nd Kristin Hannah book! Can we believe it? Only one more book still in print to go!
What to expect in this book:
-Magical realism
-Historical romance
-Trauma and troubled characters
-Unlikely love stories
-Outlaws/cowboys
-The Wild West
Thoughts
As I have mentioned with some of Kristin Hannah's older backlisted books, they are a much different vibe and genre from her more recent releases, that mostly focus on historical fiction novels about powerful leading women. Her earliest books are more historical romance or female/chick lit. They remind me more of what my mother or grandmother would have read in the 1990s. When Lightning Strikes was released in 1994 and continues to show the immense growth that she has had as a writer over the last 30 years.
Lainie is a romance writer living in Washington with her teenage daughter. Coming from a troubled past and unfamiliar with love in most forms, she clings to her writing as a sense of stability for her. However after a recent public incident, Lainie is uncertain how she will continue to write novels. Until one night, she becomes fully immersed in her story and has found herself face to face with her own antagonist and villain, Outlaw John "Killian" in 1896. Lainie has to find a way out of her own story and seek to discover if true love can actually exist for herself or if fiction is greater than fact.
In the beginning, KH advises her readers to suspend disbelief as they encounter the events in the story. I have read other books that involve an author or a reader becoming part of the story they are writing or creating, but what made this different is how she strung the storyline together to where it seemed like parallel universes. I love magical realism and so this premise was not far-fetched for me. If you enjoy a sliding doors or parallel universe story, this will make sense to you as well. The areas of concern for me were simply some questions that are never answered about Lainie's backstory as well as the intensity of the story toward the end and the overall pacing wrapped up so quickly.
Overall, for being a person that does not typically care for historical romances or Westerns, I found this to be more interesting and entertaining then I expected it to be. But overall, this ranks to the bottom of her list of books, along with some of the other older ones I have read. As always, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane will forever have special places in my heart. Kristin Hannah-keep doing what you are doing and creating stories for generations of women. I cannot wait to see what is next.
What to expect in this book:
-Magical realism
-Historical romance
-Trauma and troubled characters
-Unlikely love stories
-Outlaws/cowboys
-The Wild West
Thoughts
As I have mentioned with some of Kristin Hannah's older backlisted books, they are a much different vibe and genre from her more recent releases, that mostly focus on historical fiction novels about powerful leading women. Her earliest books are more historical romance or female/chick lit. They remind me more of what my mother or grandmother would have read in the 1990s. When Lightning Strikes was released in 1994 and continues to show the immense growth that she has had as a writer over the last 30 years.
Lainie is a romance writer living in Washington with her teenage daughter. Coming from a troubled past and unfamiliar with love in most forms, she clings to her writing as a sense of stability for her. However after a recent public incident, Lainie is uncertain how she will continue to write novels. Until one night, she becomes fully immersed in her story and has found herself face to face with her own antagonist and villain, Outlaw John "Killian" in 1896. Lainie has to find a way out of her own story and seek to discover if true love can actually exist for herself or if fiction is greater than fact.
In the beginning, KH advises her readers to suspend disbelief as they encounter the events in the story. I have read other books that involve an author or a reader becoming part of the story they are writing or creating, but what made this different is how she strung the storyline together to where it seemed like parallel universes. I love magical realism and so this premise was not far-fetched for me. If you enjoy a sliding doors or parallel universe story, this will make sense to you as well. The areas of concern for me were simply some questions that are never answered about Lainie's backstory as well as the intensity of the story toward the end and the overall pacing wrapped up so quickly.
Overall, for being a person that does not typically care for historical romances or Westerns, I found this to be more interesting and entertaining then I expected it to be. But overall, this ranks to the bottom of her list of books, along with some of the other older ones I have read. As always, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane will forever have special places in my heart. Kristin Hannah-keep doing what you are doing and creating stories for generations of women. I cannot wait to see what is next.
May 9, 2011
I hadn't read any of her books and really enjoyed "Winter Garden:" but this was a not well written romance novel.
December 27, 2016
I think there is an issue when I like the snippet of your Mc Lainies novel more then the actual novel.
April 19, 2022
I liked the idea of the heroine being transported back in time, not only to 1896, but right smack dab in the middle of the very town and characters that she had created for her novel.
It is supposed to be a story of a love so strong that it transcends time to bring two souls back together again 100 years later, but to me, their characters just didn’t mesh well. Yeah, they had their deep-rooted issues to work out, but there just wasn’t any magic (romance-wise).
“She expected a hero, demanded one. Unfortunately, what she got was a broken-down outlaw with a soul full of regrets. They were both screwed.”
I loved Hannah's Chasing the Moon, so although I didn’t care for this one, I will definitely keep reading her work.
It is supposed to be a story of a love so strong that it transcends time to bring two souls back together again 100 years later, but to me, their characters just didn’t mesh well. Yeah, they had their deep-rooted issues to work out, but there just wasn’t any magic (romance-wise).
“She expected a hero, demanded one. Unfortunately, what she got was a broken-down outlaw with a soul full of regrets. They were both screwed.”
I loved Hannah's Chasing the Moon, so although I didn’t care for this one, I will definitely keep reading her work.
June 15, 2025
okurken fırtınanın şiddetini, havanın soğukluğunu ve yağmurun sesini iliklerinize kadar hissedeceğiniz güzel bir kitap.
laina, çocukluğundan beri ciddi şekilde zorluklar yaşamış, kelly adında bir kızı olan başarılı bir yazardır. yine uyumakta zorlandığı bir gece bilgisayarının başında yazdığı kitabıyla uğraşırken fırtınadan dolayı çakan bir şimşek ve yıldırımdan dolayı bilinç kaybı yaşar ve kendini bir anda 1800 lü yılların sonunda, yazdığı kitabın içinde bulur.
yazdığı banka soygunu sahnesinin ortasına düşen genç kadın, soygunculardan biri tarafından rehin alınır ve casus sanılarak alıkonur. ince ince işleyerek yazdığı killian adlı karakterin eline düşen genç kadın aklının almadığı gerçeklerle yüzleşerek korkularından kurtulması gerektiğini böylece kendi zamanına dönebileceğini anladığında artık çoktan aşkın pençesine düşmüştür.
kitap ilk 100 sayfada biraz zorladı çünkü geçmişe geldiğini anlama/anlatma kısmı uzun sürdü. sıkmadı ama yordu diyeyim. nihayet o eşik aşıldığında da nasıl bitti anlamadım bile. killian'ın topluluğundaki yaşlı kadının söylediği gibi ikisinin de kendi kaderleri için ders alması ve çözmesi gerekenler vardı ve bunu hallettiklerinde artık laina'nın geri dönme zamanı gelmişti.
ikisinin birbirlerinin ruh eşi olduklarını anlayıp artık ayrılacakları gerçeğiyle yüzleştikleri kısımlar çok duygusaldı. içlerinde kendileriyle alakalı çözmeleri gerekenler bir bir halloldukça sanki ben rahatladım, duygular o kadar iyi geçti bana.
finaldeki kısım uzasaydı keşke çünkü kelly bu duruma ne tepki verirdi çok merak ettim. kitapla alakalı en merak ettiğim şey bu oldu diyebilirim hatta çünkü laina'nın kızına karşı olan davranışları çok etkileyiciydi.
keyifli okumalar 🌸
laina, çocukluğundan beri ciddi şekilde zorluklar yaşamış, kelly adında bir kızı olan başarılı bir yazardır. yine uyumakta zorlandığı bir gece bilgisayarının başında yazdığı kitabıyla uğraşırken fırtınadan dolayı çakan bir şimşek ve yıldırımdan dolayı bilinç kaybı yaşar ve kendini bir anda 1800 lü yılların sonunda, yazdığı kitabın içinde bulur.
yazdığı banka soygunu sahnesinin ortasına düşen genç kadın, soygunculardan biri tarafından rehin alınır ve casus sanılarak alıkonur. ince ince işleyerek yazdığı killian adlı karakterin eline düşen genç kadın aklının almadığı gerçeklerle yüzleşerek korkularından kurtulması gerektiğini böylece kendi zamanına dönebileceğini anladığında artık çoktan aşkın pençesine düşmüştür.
kitap ilk 100 sayfada biraz zorladı çünkü geçmişe geldiğini anlama/anlatma kısmı uzun sürdü. sıkmadı ama yordu diyeyim. nihayet o eşik aşıldığında da nasıl bitti anlamadım bile. killian'ın topluluğundaki yaşlı kadının söylediği gibi ikisinin de kendi kaderleri için ders alması ve çözmesi gerekenler vardı ve bunu hallettiklerinde artık laina'nın geri dönme zamanı gelmişti.
ikisinin birbirlerinin ruh eşi olduklarını anlayıp artık ayrılacakları gerçeğiyle yüzleştikleri kısımlar çok duygusaldı. içlerinde kendileriyle alakalı çözmeleri gerekenler bir bir halloldukça sanki ben rahatladım, duygular o kadar iyi geçti bana.
finaldeki kısım uzasaydı keşke çünkü kelly bu duruma ne tepki verirdi çok merak ettim. kitapla alakalı en merak ettiğim şey bu oldu diyebilirim hatta çünkü laina'nın kızına karşı olan davranışları çok etkileyiciydi.
keyifli okumalar 🌸
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August 10, 2018
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Yazarın şu ana kadar okuduğum kitapların arasında farklı bir kurguya sahip ve okurken o büyülü atmosferin içine giriyorsun.
Yazarın şu ana kadar okuduğum kitapların arasında farklı bir kurguya sahip ve okurken o büyülü atmosferin içine giriyorsun.
June 30, 2025
I love Kristin Hannah, though I haven’t read many of her earlier works. While reading When Lightning Strikes, it was clear how much her writing has evolved over the years. This book wasn’t my favorite, but it was still enjoyable to experience one of her older stories. I normally don’t care for books with smut or spice, but Kristin Hannah handled the romance scenes with class and grace, and I really appreciated that.
September 16, 2018
Ritmi biraz yavaş olsa da beğendiğim bir kitap oldu .
June 16, 2024
Had a hard time getting into it. The story could have been 1/2 as long if you take out all of the push/pull moments between the main characters. I liked the story, just not quite enough meat.
September 9, 2024
It was fine. Not my favorite book she's written.
May 29, 2025
bebişlerim sonuna kadar mutlu olmayı hak etti keşke modern zamandaki hallerini daha fazla görebilseydik🥹
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March 19, 2025
Before picking this up, I assumed any Kristin Hannah book was an automatic purchase. This feels like it was written by a completely different writer.
When Lightning Strikes is a classic silly romance story of a struggling writer who falls asleep at her computer one stormy night and wakes up inside of her Wild West novel. And instead of falling in love with the hero who was supposed to rescue her, she ends up taken by the dark and mysterious villain Killian, who is supposed to be, I guess, her soulmate from a past life. Or something. It's all very vague.
This is basically a poor man's Outlander in the sense that it's a fish out of water, modern woman in the past type of love story, but instead of taking the time to get to know either character it instead feels rushed and the explanation of why they're in love feels unnecessarily strange. It was also frustrating to read about a female main character who was writing a Western novel....who didn't seem to know anything about the Wild West! She was totally unprepared for anything that happened, and on top of it, I simply did not buy their connection aside from being told they were in love.
It's clear reading this that Hannah has put a lot of time and energy into improving her writing and character work, because this was really terrible.
When Lightning Strikes is a classic silly romance story of a struggling writer who falls asleep at her computer one stormy night and wakes up inside of her Wild West novel. And instead of falling in love with the hero who was supposed to rescue her, she ends up taken by the dark and mysterious villain Killian, who is supposed to be, I guess, her soulmate from a past life. Or something. It's all very vague.
This is basically a poor man's Outlander in the sense that it's a fish out of water, modern woman in the past type of love story, but instead of taking the time to get to know either character it instead feels rushed and the explanation of why they're in love feels unnecessarily strange. It was also frustrating to read about a female main character who was writing a Western novel....who didn't seem to know anything about the Wild West! She was totally unprepared for anything that happened, and on top of it, I simply did not buy their connection aside from being told they were in love.
It's clear reading this that Hannah has put a lot of time and energy into improving her writing and character work, because this was really terrible.
August 18, 2022
I went into this book thinking it was a cool premise because it’s about a romance writer who gets thrown back in time to the era that she’s currently writing about in her novel. Also Kristin Hannah is a really popular author who is still pumping out new stuff to this day. But I think I can sum up this novel by basically just saying that it is very much a romance novel that was written in 1994. Lol super cheese, very cringe, and I laughed out loud at some of the lines that were meant to be serious.
I’ve heard her novel The Great Alone is good. Maybe I’ll try that one next 🤣
I’ve heard her novel The Great Alone is good. Maybe I’ll try that one next 🤣
September 5, 2022
This was cliche in almost every way- but it was still good!!
July 14, 2013
This book has a great idea behind it, the main character is an author writing a western novel and during a storm gets thrown back in time to 1890's in Arizona - where her story takes place. She of course thinks its a dream and all her fictional characters are in it.
Lainie - the main character keeps waiting to wake up, all the outlaws in her group thinks she's crazy. Finally an intriguing character shows up that is of course is a "witch Dr." and starts talking about fate, true love & destiny. Very predictable from the beginning the 2 main characters fall in love - deeper than any other people in the universe...
I thought the hardened outlaw Killian, (the love interest) had become too soft, too romantic to fast for believability. The Characters had a hard time talking to each other but a simple look in the eye or even sex seemed to relay all their Q & A's.
The story left a lot of unanswered questions for me, if anybody can shed some light on it please do.
1st - Why does the cover art have green grass and a swing - it was a western in the desert!
2nd - What happens to Viloula? She said the 3 of them; their lives were intertwined together & they'd meet again.
3rd - how does a dead man come back to life & time travel?? How does the bullet hole just disappear??
After finishing the book, I realize I did enjoy it, I’m glad the last 2 chapters had some unpredictability in it.
Lainie - the main character keeps waiting to wake up, all the outlaws in her group thinks she's crazy. Finally an intriguing character shows up that is of course is a "witch Dr." and starts talking about fate, true love & destiny. Very predictable from the beginning the 2 main characters fall in love - deeper than any other people in the universe...
I thought the hardened outlaw Killian, (the love interest) had become too soft, too romantic to fast for believability. The Characters had a hard time talking to each other but a simple look in the eye or even sex seemed to relay all their Q & A's.
The story left a lot of unanswered questions for me, if anybody can shed some light on it please do.
1st - Why does the cover art have green grass and a swing - it was a western in the desert!
2nd - What happens to Viloula? She said the 3 of them; their lives were intertwined together & they'd meet again.
3rd - how does a dead man come back to life & time travel?? How does the bullet hole just disappear??
After finishing the book, I realize I did enjoy it, I’m glad the last 2 chapters had some unpredictability in it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 20, 2019
“Akıl unutsa bile yürek unutmaz.”
Sanırım bu alıntı kitabın konusunu en güzel şekilde yansıtıyor. Tekrar bir aşk romanı yorumuyla geri dönüş yaptım ve uzun bir aradan sonra Kristin Hannah'yı okudum. Yazarın şuana kadar iki kitabını okudum ve şöyle bir problemim var ki yazarın üslubuna bir türlü alışamıyorum. Nedeni Kristin Hannah'nın oldukça uzun ve ayrıntılı betimlemelerinden kaynaklanıyor olabilir fakat bu romanında ilk defa olay örgüsüne kapılıp bu ayrıntıya takılmadığımı söyleyebilirim. Bu romanı diğer romanlarından oldukça farklıydı, masalımsı bir türde yazılmıştı, karakterler arasındaki diyaloglar çok eğlenceli ve mizah doluydu.
Yazarın oluşturduğu büyülü atmosfer çok hoşuma gitti fakat bir puan kırmamın nedeni belki bu konuyu biraz daha iyi kullanabileceğini düşünmemdi. Yinede okurken çok zevk aldım ve ilk defa yazarın bir kitabına tam anlamıyla kendimi verebildim ve girdim. Karakterleri de çok sevdim özellikle de Killian'ı tabiki hehe.
Kitabın konusu kısaca bir aşk roman yazarı olan Laina'nın kendisini kendi yazdığı kitabının kurgusunda bulması ile gelişiyor ve kanun kaçağı Killian ile yolunun kesişmesiyle devam ediyor. Yazar çok farklı bir türde okurlarını karşılayarak oldukça başarılı olmuş okumak isteyen herkese keyifli okumalar dilerim.
Sanırım bu alıntı kitabın konusunu en güzel şekilde yansıtıyor. Tekrar bir aşk romanı yorumuyla geri dönüş yaptım ve uzun bir aradan sonra Kristin Hannah'yı okudum. Yazarın şuana kadar iki kitabını okudum ve şöyle bir problemim var ki yazarın üslubuna bir türlü alışamıyorum. Nedeni Kristin Hannah'nın oldukça uzun ve ayrıntılı betimlemelerinden kaynaklanıyor olabilir fakat bu romanında ilk defa olay örgüsüne kapılıp bu ayrıntıya takılmadığımı söyleyebilirim. Bu romanı diğer romanlarından oldukça farklıydı, masalımsı bir türde yazılmıştı, karakterler arasındaki diyaloglar çok eğlenceli ve mizah doluydu.
Yazarın oluşturduğu büyülü atmosfer çok hoşuma gitti fakat bir puan kırmamın nedeni belki bu konuyu biraz daha iyi kullanabileceğini düşünmemdi. Yinede okurken çok zevk aldım ve ilk defa yazarın bir kitabına tam anlamıyla kendimi verebildim ve girdim. Karakterleri de çok sevdim özellikle de Killian'ı tabiki hehe.
Kitabın konusu kısaca bir aşk roman yazarı olan Laina'nın kendisini kendi yazdığı kitabının kurgusunda bulması ile gelişiyor ve kanun kaçağı Killian ile yolunun kesişmesiyle devam ediyor. Yazar çok farklı bir türde okurlarını karşılayarak oldukça başarılı olmuş okumak isteyen herkese keyifli okumalar dilerim.
January 27, 2023
When Lightening Strikes by Kristan Hannah
Romance author, Elana Castanza has sent her daughter off to the wilds for survival field training and they won't be able to talk for over 12 days.
During the storm she is writing her story and when lightening strikes she wakes up and she's in the story she was writing. The west is a place for forgiving.
Kidnapped by Killian in the western plot she was writing, 100 years in the past. She knows what is going to happen at the bank robbery, she had written the book scenes.
Problem is some things are not going the way she had written them. After days of not waking up in her regular bed she just wants to get back to her daughter-in the real world.
She tells the others her story and they do believe her as she knows Killain's real name, his wifes name and circumstances that led to her death. Nobody but Killian knows of the truth.
The old wise woman tells her they are soulmates and she almost believes her as time goes on...
He used to be a caring loving hero and when he finds her gone he thinks again he's back to his normal self-caring for others. Steamy hot sex scenes and he does want to help her get back to her daughter...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Romance author, Elana Castanza has sent her daughter off to the wilds for survival field training and they won't be able to talk for over 12 days.
During the storm she is writing her story and when lightening strikes she wakes up and she's in the story she was writing. The west is a place for forgiving.
Kidnapped by Killian in the western plot she was writing, 100 years in the past. She knows what is going to happen at the bank robbery, she had written the book scenes.
Problem is some things are not going the way she had written them. After days of not waking up in her regular bed she just wants to get back to her daughter-in the real world.
She tells the others her story and they do believe her as she knows Killain's real name, his wifes name and circumstances that led to her death. Nobody but Killian knows of the truth.
The old wise woman tells her they are soulmates and she almost believes her as time goes on...
He used to be a caring loving hero and when he finds her gone he thinks again he's back to his normal self-caring for others. Steamy hot sex scenes and he does want to help her get back to her daughter...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
January 27, 2021
I don't love Westerns so take this review with a grain of salt, but I hated this book. Our main character is a writer who has no life but her daughter and now that her daughter is away at a survival camp, she's got nothing to do but pop pills and drink herself silly. One night at her computer, lightning strikes and she wakes up inside her newest Western novel. The rest of the book is her getting kidnapped by the big bad guy and then falling in love with him. He was so alpha and treated her so terribly in the beginning, I couldn't buy the shift into love. Of course he has his reasons for being the way he is, but I just didn't attach to the story at all. Most of the book she thinks she thinks she is dreaming and is trying to fall asleep so she can wake up in present day to get back to her daughter. Lastly, there are a lot of things really unexplained. They meet a witch doctor type person who says they'll all meet again but that never really ties up. Then the last part with our 2 main characters was completely unexplained and made no sense. I didn't buy the relationship, didn't enjoy the setting, and overall really didn't enjoy my time with this book.
June 10, 2010
Time travel, wild wild west, modern day woman thrown back in time right in the middle of a bank hold-up. Then she gets taken hostage by the very handsome and sexy bank robber.
So much humor and sexual tension in this book. I got my feet wet on time travel romances with this book. If you've never read a time travel romance, I would recommend you start with this one. The storyline will have you furiously turning the pages until the very end.
So much humor and sexual tension in this book. I got my feet wet on time travel romances with this book. If you've never read a time travel romance, I would recommend you start with this one. The storyline will have you furiously turning the pages until the very end.
August 30, 2019
I have read six of Kristin Hannah's books starting with the Nightengale and next The Great Alone. These set the bar pretty high and I loved them. Also three others, but I didn't like this book at all although read 100 pages and just couldn't get inot it. I think this was one of her earlier books and she became a much better writer as she went along. I am reading Firefly Lane next and hope it's good....the reviews were mixed. I'll continue readind Ms Hanna's books, just not the early ones.
July 9, 2020
I like this author quite a bit, but I feel that this book was a dud, and not up to her standards. The protagonist is a messed up young woman, who is an author. There is a storm, and she wakes up in the past. Naturally she wants to return to her time and her daughter. But problems ensue. It was very predictable, and I didn't feel the characters were very dimensional. They seemed quite flat, quite one dimensional.
January 16, 2017
I wanted to love this book, I really did, but it kind of drug on for 150 pages and all of the action happened in last 50 pages. The premise was good but it lacked something that I can't quite put my finger on. The characters perhaps were too rigid, too unlikely a pair, perhaps. While far from the worst book I've ever read, it wasn't my favorite either.
July 23, 2019
I usually like Kristin Hannah's books, but just did not enjoy this one at all. The whole premise was just silly to me (and I've read Outlander and love it so the time travel idea isn't something I just dismiss). I didn't connect at all to Lainie, and just didn't like the book. Will read her other books though, maybe because this was one of her earlier books?
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