This book is obviously the author’s love letter to Wales, that much is obvious. Unfortunately, I didn’t fall in love with this book. Not even much “in like” with it.

I like the concept, take an apparently beloved historical figure (and I Wiki’d him online because I’d never heard of him), Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales, and combine his story with a “romantic” tale of time travel.

The characters were flat and most of the time pretty uninteresting. They didn’t change or grow. They were static and forgettable. The point of view shifted from chapter to chapter between Meg and Llyweln. I didn’t have a problem with the first person narrative, but the pacing was pretty slow in many places, especially during the long diatribes about military strategy and planning. There were so many characters all with unpronounceable Welsh names, it was hard to keep them straight. Who was the main villain? What was the main conflict? I was lost after a while, there was just too much, but not enough. I didn’t know where the author wanted my attention.

I don’t see how this is classified as a romance. There were a couple of kisses. And literally, that’s about all that was said about them, “he kissed me.” I don’t understand why these two people would want to be together, why the Prince of Wales, in the Middle Ages, would let a strange woman be privy to all his military strategy.

And the time travel aspect. Ugh. It felt like a gimmick. It didn’t work. You could have cut out the entire time travel and have a more focused historical fiction novel. A young woman from the 1990′s suddenly travels back in time to the Middle Ages. She’s pretty accepting of everything, so are all the people she meets. She drives (drives! Very few questions are asked about this strange “chariot” she rides in) through some portal , who knows why, it’s never explained, and there still is no conflict! There was no point! Don’t just tell me, hey it’s time travel. Believe it. Give me the magic and mysticism to back it up. And all the back story of Meg’s husband – - no point! Another gimmick. I don’t think there has ever been a book where I felt you could cut out one of the two main characters and have a better, more interesting book. The ending was ridiculous. I actually screamed “No freakin’ way!” I can’t believe that the author finished it that way. Not because it was a shocking ending, or a cliff hanger, but because it just didn’t explain anything. It was a cop out.

Was this book trying to be “Outlander”? At least that one was done right.

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Meg is a young single mother of a two and a half year old girl. She's endured an abusive relationship with her now-dead husband, the father of her daughter, and has little reason to trust men or believe in romance--until she's hurled back through time to the court of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. Coming from the future, Meg is able to warn Llywelyn of the dangers in store for him and help him navigate the complex politics of the time. I loved how historically based this book was and what a vivid picture it gave of the time period, but I think my favorite part was watching Meg grow as a character. Medieval Wales wasn't a place where women had great power--and yet it's in exactly this setting that Meg truly overcomes her past and grows into the strong, capable women she was meant to be. 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I love medieval history, and I loved the blend of history, romance, and time-travel fantasy in this book. Meg is a young single mother of a two and a half year old girl. She’s endured an abusive relationship with her now-dead husband, the father of her daughter, and has little reason to trust men or believe in romance–until she’s hurled back through time to the court of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. Coming from the future, Meg is able to warn Llywelyn of the dangers in store for him and help him navigate the complex politics of the time. I loved how historically based this book was and what a vivid picture it gave of the time period, but I think my favorite part was watching Meg grow as a character. Medieval Wales wasn’t a place where women had great power–and yet it’s in exactly this setting that Meg truly overcomes her past and grows into the strong, capable women she was meant to be. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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