Helpful Score: 3
Interesting as a time travel book, combined with a romance. The sex scenes are very graphic.
Helpful Score: 2
Robin Schone offers a time travel romance with many layers. While the heroine is misplaced in Victorian England she is confronted with many choices, if she submits to her husband's advances, is she committing adultry? While she sifts through her bewildering situation she realizes the relationship she finds herself in is a better fit than the one from her own time. The hero is a little thin skinned, but worth the trouble. As always, Robin Schone offers explicitly satisfying sex scenes and the bad characters are truely bad.
Helpful Score: 2
very sexy book. great story
Elaine awakens to find herself in a new body, in the 19th instead of the 20th century. Interesting take on time-travel and an enjoyable read.
Helpful Score: 2
I didn't enjoy this one as much as her other novels and stories. Maybe the time travel threw me off. However, if you like erotic fiction, Schone delivers.
Helpful Score: 1
Held my attention, but the characters are all rather unlikeable. Rather unpleasant overall.
Helpful Score: 1
There is quite a lot to this dark gothic style paranormal as well as many twists and surprises. Very original plot. I've read the other reviews and I've concluded it takes a particular type of romance reader to appreciate this story.
I thought Schone did a great job and I found her writing unique, darkly erotic, and very imaginative. A page turner for me that held my attention to the end.
I don't recommend it to the faint of heart or to those expecting a warm fuzzy story-line, for it gets a bit chilling. Strong characters were well defined and easy for me to get emotionally involved in.
I thought Schone did a great job and I found her writing unique, darkly erotic, and very imaginative. A page turner for me that held my attention to the end.
I don't recommend it to the faint of heart or to those expecting a warm fuzzy story-line, for it gets a bit chilling. Strong characters were well defined and easy for me to get emotionally involved in.
Helpful Score: 1
Robin Schone offers a time travel romance with many layers. While the heroine is misplaced in Victorian England she is confronted with many choices, if she submits to her husband's advances, is she committing adultry? While she sifts through her bewildering situation she realizes the relationship she finds herself in is a better fit than the one from her own time. The hero is a little thin skinned, but worth the trouble. As always, Robin Schone offers explicitly satisfying sex scenes and the bad characters are truely bad.
Helpful Score: 1
This has a great beginning and then fizzled into crap. There was a masturbation scene with the heroine (Elaine) and another one with the hero (Charles). I thought, OK, this has promise. Then Elaine time traveled and a woman (not sure what her roll was other than torturer of the woman Elaine replaced) was obnoxious to the extreme forcing Elaine to pray pray pray and repent for her thoughts (like she even had any at that point), so much that I just couldn't read anymore. Charles was never in the picture when Elaine traveled and I couldn't stand it anymore to even wait for his return. This is my first book by Robin Schone and it will probably be the last.
Helpful Score: 1
Not one of my favorite Schone books;didn't like how one minute the hero was erotic and loving and the next he would be ordering the heroine about like a child, but a nice weekend read.
this story has all kinds of twists keeps you interested
I haven't written a review in years, probably. This book charmed me so much that I must recommend it to the serious romance reader.
While the theme is farfetched, you know, Druids and magic- the main characters are wonderfully rich and complex. I particularly like the way it deals with how they analyze and eventually begin to understand each other, even tho there is a bit too much modern anxiety in the female lead.
It is a marvelous, satisfying read. Go for it!
While the theme is farfetched, you know, Druids and magic- the main characters are wonderfully rich and complex. I particularly like the way it deals with how they analyze and eventually begin to understand each other, even tho there is a bit too much modern anxiety in the female lead.
It is a marvelous, satisfying read. Go for it!
great erotic romance!
These characters are very well developed. The plot was interesting... AND it is a Robin Schone!
Robin Schone offers a time travel romance with many layers. While the heroine is misplaced in Victorian England she is confronted with many choices, if she submits to her husband's advances, is she committing adultry? While she sifts through her bewildering situation she realizes the relationship she finds herself in is a better fit than the one from her own time. The hero is a little thin skinned, but worth the trouble. As always, Robin Schone offers explicitly satisfying sex scenes and the bad characters are truely bad.
I'm not much of a bodice-ripper reader, but I enjoyed a book with a similar premise (The Mirror by Marlys MiIlhiser) so I thought I'd give this a try. I couldn't get through it though. I had a hard time understanding some of the writing. For example in chapter one a quirt is being raised and lowered repeatedly, and I couldn't remember what the word "quirt" means -- later through Elaine's memory of the scene I realized it must be a whip, but I never did figure out if he was beating her with it, or if he was just beating on the furniture or what!
It was ok. It didn't make me fall in love with the characters, and quite often the hero was annoying. However, there were some very well written parts, and the story itself wasn't bad.
Woman is transported to another woman's body in the past and falls for her new husband
From the back cover...
Elaine Metcliffe feels trapped in her marriage and hasn't felt passion in years. She awakens one morning to find herself in another woman's bed, inside another woman's body, and married to another woman's husband. Charles Mortimer, a virile nineteenth-century English baron, is a far cry from her twentieth-century husband. Bent on seducing the restful young bride he believes her to be, Charles educated Elaine in practices of physical pleasure she has never dared imagine. Torn between fidelity to the passionless man she left behind and the exquisite temptation of Charles's touch, Elaine must now chart the course of her own destiny...
Elaine Metcliffe feels trapped in her marriage and hasn't felt passion in years. She awakens one morning to find herself in another woman's bed, inside another woman's body, and married to another woman's husband. Charles Mortimer, a virile nineteenth-century English baron, is a far cry from her twentieth-century husband. Bent on seducing the restful young bride he believes her to be, Charles educated Elaine in practices of physical pleasure she has never dared imagine. Torn between fidelity to the passionless man she left behind and the exquisite temptation of Charles's touch, Elaine must now chart the course of her own destiny...
I thought I would try this author but I couldnt get into her books. They seem to dark for me.
it was okay. not her best. liked the tutor much better.
Erotically sickening!
