Brekke K. (sfvamp) - , reviewed on 3/20/2011 + 108 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I'm not liking the direction in which Susan Squires is taking her DaVinci Time Travel Series which seems to incorporate less time travel and utilize more bizarre, illogical magic. I know you can say that the very definition of magic is that it doesn't subscribe to known powers of science. But it has to follow some rules. And if feels more and more like Susan Squires is haphazardly throwing everything into her plots, including the kitchen sink, and calling it magic. I wonder if she's having problems with writer's block?

The heroine of this story is a romance writer who has never actually been romanced. Consequently her stories lack passion and her inexperience with men shows up in their cardboard characterization. She even talks about how often in the romance world the device used to get the main characters together is flimsy and the villains are one-dimensional. So how ironic that this novel fails in those categories too. I wanted to like this book and when I embarked on reading it I felt certain I was going to read a guaranteed good story. How wrong was I?

Like fellow reviewers, I too can't understand what was the point of the time travel but to convolute things. Having a hero and heroine from the past had no merit on this story. Nor did having a villain from the past make much sense either. Frankly this would have worked better as a straight historical or contemporary story. A better paced latter half of the story with hints of a greater purpose to come in later books still couldn't save this book for me.

This story failed for me on so many levels--logic, romance, plot, and history. I miss when her time travel stories involved actual time in the past and her characters were vampires. She should have stuck with the vampires.

Avoid this book.

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