Publisher: Self-published
Published: June 9,
2010
ISBN: B003R0LNH4
Genre: Time Travel
Format: Ebook - Netgalley
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Gina@loveromancesandmorereviews.com
TWO-1/2 HEARTS
Due to a painfully progressive heart
disease, Sophie Ford is days away from death.
Her husband, Jamie, will do anything, anything at all to save her. Theirs is a love for all time. Among their interests are Civil War re-enactments. It is a passion of theirs. When one morning Jamie goes into his wife’s room
he is devastated to find her gone. Not
that she has died—she is gone.
Vanished.
Sophie meanwhile awakes in a strange room
and soon learns she is not in her home, but in in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Even more disconcerting is
she learns it is the year 1863. Alone,
with no idea how she arrived or where Jamie is or how to reach him she is
fortunate to be taken in by a doctor and his family. Perhaps more strange than her travel back
through time is that Sophie is cured of the heart ailment that was soon to take
her life. Unable to find her way back to
her own time she settles in in Harrisburg and soon catches the eye of a neighbour,
Richard Madden. While Richard may be a man of his time, Sophie wants nothing to
do with him. She is soon relieved to
find Jamie has joined her in the past…or has he?
She rejoices when a soldier, looking
identical to Jamie, arrives. Although he claims he doesn't know her, she's
convinced he's her husband and sets out to make him remember. Sophie races
against time as she faces increasing pressure from Richard, who threatens their
chance to reunite. Can love the machinations of a rejected suitor, war and a
threat from the future?
I’m a huge fan of time travel and
historical romances, particularly civil war and westerns so when I saw Tracey
Jane Jackson’s book, THE BRIDE PRICE,
I had to pick it up. It had some nice
promise to it but all too often I kept wondering “where was the editor?” Even long-time, traditionally published
authors who have been through the rigors of editing need a good editor for their
self-published books. Perhaps even more
so because it is so easy to “publish” a book today and become an author. If Sophie was such a fantastic re-enactor she
would have had a firmer grip on the language and phrases of the time she was
sent to. There were many more colloquial
and modern day expressions than I suspect one would have found in 1863 and that
someone would have raised an eye brow or two at some of the things Sophie and
Jamie said. But then, the characters from 1863 more often than not spoke that
way as well.
When the reason for Sophie and Jamie’s
ability to time travel was revealed it didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It was
a great premise—one I really liked. I
just feel the story would have been more cohesive if there were hints about how
the future was affecting the past earlier on.
It felt like the author thought she had to find a way to explain the
time travel, came up with a great idea, but didn’t go back through the story to
implement it.
The story could have just as well been
told without the heart ailment issue – and Sophie’s outcome made a lot more
sense without it. If it were a mystery
there would have been some nice red herrings, but as a romance they didn’t
work.
A less picky reader would enjoy THE BRIDE PRICE much more than I did. Check
it out if for no other reason than to read a decent romance that transcends
time.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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