Publisher: Gallery
Books
Published: March 11, 2014
ISBN: B00DPM7YMC
Genre: Fantasy,
Time Travel
Format: Ebook
Obtained via: Publisher via Edelweiss
ONE Heart
Her daughter dead from a seizure, her son off to school and
divorced from her husband Maggie takes herself to the wilds of Scotland where
years before she found solace and happiness.
Suffering from seizures herself she tries to keep her life steady. But Maggie dreams, deep dreams that take her
to another time and place. Or are they
dreams?
Suddenly Maggie finds herself living between two worlds—the present
and ancient Scotland in a time when a woman having a seizure wasn’t a sign of
illness but rather someone to be revered.
In that far gone time there is a child—one that reminds her of her
daughter. And a man…a man she could,
perhaps love.
I’m a lifelong fan of time travels. Books, movies, I can’t resist them. When I saw Claire McDougall’s VEIL OF TIME and
the blurb comparing it to OUTLANDER I had to get it.
Not even close.
Maggie’s side of the story is told in the first person and not
well done at all. It reads more like
someone’s diary with pretty much “I did this, I did that” narrative. A lot of telling with no showing. There is no sense of what she experiences coming
out of one of her dreams, her physical reactions to seizures, nothing. Fergus’s side of the story is told in third
person. Again, a lot of telling, but no
showing.
Most telling of all is in the Q&A at the end of the book the
author talks about how she heard Outlander was going to be made into a movie so
she felt she needed to get going on her book so it would be out before
then. Maybe the rush to get her book out
before Outlander went to film/video is the reason behind a really poorly
written book. But that’s no excuse.
I always think long and hard before giving a 1 or 2 rating – in
this case, it’s definitely a buyer beware.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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