Helpful Score: 4
The Wishing Chalice was a "cute" time-travel romance and an easy read. Just as the story seems redundant, the plot changes to a more interesting level just in time. This seems to happen everytime the plot changes. The Hero Hunter is lovable; the heroine Isabel, is as well, and more complicated then the story allows. If the story had of been longer, giving more depth into the characters, I would of scored it much higher. This book of 320 pages or so had the makings of a great 500 page romance, given more detail, circumstance, and drama.
Helpful Score: 2
Twenty-five year old Isabel currently lives in England at her late grandmother's cottage as she recovers from a miscarriage and a divorce. England is not a strange land for Isabel as her English mother has lived there following the death of her American husband (Isabel's father) three years ago.
Isobel wanders a cemetery filled with the gravestones of her ancestors when the weather turns nasty. She seeks shelter, which Isabel finds in a dilapidated castle. There she notices a beautiful chalice.
Not long afterward, Isobel realizes something is not right in her world. She is no longer amidst ruins, but instead is inside a thriving castle. Stranger yet is the body that her mind resides in as she learns she is married to Hunter and living in Windermere Castle as his wife Detra in 1315. As she adapts to a new body and century (a bit too easily) she falls in love with her spouse who wonders if his wife is beginning to love him though he worries about her sanity.
Fans of time travel romance will enjoy the fine THE WISHING CHALICE though the story line is somewhat typical of the sub-genre as Isabel mentally adapts too easily for a modern day western woman going back to medieval times. Used to freedom of decision, Isabel would have to deal with loss of independence similar to the women trying to obtain any authority in post Taliban Afghanistan. Still the lead couple is a charming duet as Hunter is bewildered by his spouse's seemingly attitude adjustment and the support cast brings to live the early fourteenth century. The sub-genre audience will appreciate Sandra Landry's quality tale.
Harriet Klausner
Isobel wanders a cemetery filled with the gravestones of her ancestors when the weather turns nasty. She seeks shelter, which Isabel finds in a dilapidated castle. There she notices a beautiful chalice.
Not long afterward, Isobel realizes something is not right in her world. She is no longer amidst ruins, but instead is inside a thriving castle. Stranger yet is the body that her mind resides in as she learns she is married to Hunter and living in Windermere Castle as his wife Detra in 1315. As she adapts to a new body and century (a bit too easily) she falls in love with her spouse who wonders if his wife is beginning to love him though he worries about her sanity.
Fans of time travel romance will enjoy the fine THE WISHING CHALICE though the story line is somewhat typical of the sub-genre as Isabel mentally adapts too easily for a modern day western woman going back to medieval times. Used to freedom of decision, Isabel would have to deal with loss of independence similar to the women trying to obtain any authority in post Taliban Afghanistan. Still the lead couple is a charming duet as Hunter is bewildered by his spouse's seemingly attitude adjustment and the support cast brings to live the early fourteenth century. The sub-genre audience will appreciate Sandra Landry's quality tale.
Harriet Klausner
Helpful Score: 1
She's thrust centuries back in time, into another woman's body (young, beautiful.. ah, that's the way to go, if you're going to time travel! lol!)
Very good!
Very good!
Helpful Score: 1
Isabel is deeply saddened by the breakup of her marriage. While recovering in a English counterside, she discovers a strange chalice that transports her into another woman's body,Lady Detra, in the 14th century. She is torn between her attraction to this woman's husband and her former life. It is clear that Lady Detra and her husband had a very troubled maeeiage.How long will she be in this woman's body and what happened to that woman? It is a dilemma and one that is tearing Isabel apart.
