Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance Reviews
Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance
A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike …
A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg’s life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales …
Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales–and create their own history that defies the laws of time.
Daughter of Time is a stand-alone prequel to the After Cilmeri series. Other books include Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time. Book Three, Crossroads in Time is coming in the summer of 2012.
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January 27th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Sweeping Historical Fantasy,
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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|Muddled Mess of the Middle Ages,
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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|Enticing Tale of Time Travel,
REVIEW by Geraldine Evans
DAUGHTER OF TIME a stand-alone novel in the world of the After Cilmeri Series. – A TIME TRAVEL NOVEL
I’ll start by saying I’ve never read a time travel novel, so was half waiting for Dr Who to appear! Needless to say, he didn’t, but a young widow named Meg and her daughter, Anna, did. Freed by the death of her husband from a violent marriage, Met and her daughter have gone out for the mundane buying of ice-cream when their car skids on some ice. When she wakes up, Meg finds she has flown through some kind of time curtain and is in thirteenth Century Wales, having been rescued from her swamp-sinking vehicle by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales himself. It doesn’t take long for the pair to fall in love.
Thanks to her previous study of Welsh history Meg is able to save him from a premature death. They go through a peasant’s form of plight-troth and become man and wife. But love can’t conquer all, not in this world. Many dangers beset them from Llywelyn’s jealous brother, Dafydd to warring Marcher lords, and which, through them, threaten Wales’s very independence from an increasingly voracious England.
I very much enjoyed this book. I found Sarah Woodbury wove a telling tapestry of thirteenth Century Welsh royal life.. She had me caught up in the tale and in believing it is possible to pass through centuries to an earlier time. She has persuaded me to try more in this genre. Heartily recommended.
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|A perfect travel bag.,
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|Great bag for the price,
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