Audio Review: Narrator 3 stars / Story 1.5 Stars
I Love (with a capital L) time travel stories so I couldn't wait to listen to this one. It started out great - Jake Mallory, living in 1776, is about to be hung for treason - while on the gallows, something happens, and he is transported to his same hometown but in the present time. At that point, the story started to go downhill.
The dialogue between the characters was just ridiculous and Jake, although now 200+ years in the future acclimates himself immediately. He doesn't even speak very differently than how we speak today and is completely comfortable with cars, computers, TVs. The female lead, Melody, is incredibly immature and boring and it's hard to see why anyone would fall in love with her. Her family (Wiccan mother, inventor father, cute brother) are much more interesting than she is.
I have read many time travel stories and you obviously have to suspend some belief to enjoy it (A Knight in Shining Armour by Jude Devereaux is the pinnacle of time travel romance stories), but this book is poorly developed and badly written and I can't really recommend it except to the most devoted fans of this genre.
I Love (with a capital L) time travel stories so I couldn't wait to listen to this one. It started out great - Jake Mallory, living in 1776, is about to be hung for treason - while on the gallows, something happens, and he is transported to his same hometown but in the present time. At that point, the story started to go downhill.
The dialogue between the characters was just ridiculous and Jake, although now 200+ years in the future acclimates himself immediately. He doesn't even speak very differently than how we speak today and is completely comfortable with cars, computers, TVs. The female lead, Melody, is incredibly immature and boring and it's hard to see why anyone would fall in love with her. Her family (Wiccan mother, inventor father, cute brother) are much more interesting than she is.
I have read many time travel stories and you obviously have to suspend some belief to enjoy it (A Knight in Shining Armour by Jude Devereaux is the pinnacle of time travel romance stories), but this book is poorly developed and badly written and I can't really recommend it except to the most devoted fans of this genre.
