At RWA, so many people told me how much they love the HaBOs – or that their spouses and partners love hearing about them. You guys are like oracles of romance: you freaking know every one of these things. So here’s another from Janice, who has one from waaaaaay back in the day.
I read a book about 24 years ago. yeah I know a real long time ago. Anyway
it was probably one of my first time travel romance. Let my sister in law
read it and never got it back.Starts off in modern France with and american girl staying or visiting a
french castle. There are R/R engraved over the doorways/arches. Anyway she
lands back in very early france falls in love with the lord/baron but in the
futre she had been shot and the bullet was lodged near her spine, bullet
moved and hit her spinal cord and she was dying. Could not go back to future
for operation. Baron new of a medical guy called him in and lo and behold he
was also from future so he did operation.I would like to know who was the author and the name of the book if you can
get that info for me it would be great.
Time traveling spinal cord injuries? I hope she wore a seatbelt.
Did you read a lot of time travel romance? I remember when every third one was a time travel, like vampires are now. Anyone recognize this book?
R. Garcia y Robertson did a series I rather liked—
The first one was Knight Errant
“Without swooning over an ancient portrait or using any of the devices associated with time-travel romances, heroine Robyn Stafford goes back (and forth and back again) six centuries to medieval England to find and keep her man. Hers is, for the most part, an exciting romp: Robyn becomes a witch, is jailed by villains, charms mad King Henry VI and meets 15th-century counterparts of 21st-century people she had known. She fervently wishes to return, but once back, she willingly forgoes Hollywood, her job and the pleasures of her own time. “
Followed by Lady Robyn
“Wielding such 20th-century devices as spandex underwear, instant coffee crystals and a working knowledge of Shakespeare’s history plays, Robyn is a charming and resourceful heroine; Garcia y Robertson deftly plays up the contrast between Robyn’s 20th-century sensibilities and the medieval surroundings for comic effect.”
And White Rose
I haven’t read the last one although I have a copy. I was waiting to see if there was another book in the series because the ending was reported to be abrupt. Maybe just another victim of the Death Spiral.
Patrice: what main character are you referring to? I love the Fever series but haven’t read any other KMM books. I want to know what is going on!!!
For me I only have one real rule for TT (barring bad writing, really bad research, etc, those are givens for any genre):
The one coming from the present has to be the heroine. Completely just a personal preference. This also extends to other variations of the ‘fish out of water’ theme (that’s dead on the nose the appeal for me), see also: paranormals (she’s the human) and, what I call, “girl from another world” stories.
I liked how Susan Grant’s Once a Pirate handled getting the heroine back to the present AND getting the hero.
I’d argue PC Cast’s Warrior Rising is pretty close to TT. (Not Goddess of Spring though, and I’m still working through the other Goddess books as I get through my TBR pile)
I intensely dislike time travels. I just can’t suspend my disbelief, I keep thinking about diseases and paradoxes and getting burned as a witch, and just how powerless people (esp. women) were until very recently. (And still are in some places.)
A Knight in Shining Armour was the last Jude Devereaux book I read, she kinda jumped the shark there. YMMV.
meganb: Yes! Connie Willis’ “To Say Nothing of the Dog” is such a fun, silly, sweet story. But then I’m a Wimsey/Vane uberfan, so I was morally obligated to like it. (Serendipitously, I had it in my hand this morning while re-shelving other stuff and nearly started it, I definitely will now 🙂
Knight In Shining Armour didn’t hold up to re-reading at all with me. I remember thinking it was so romantic when I was a kid, and recently, I mostly just wanted to slap the heroine and tell her to grow a spine (and a brain).
geekgirl wrote:
Connie Willis’ “To Say Nothing of the Dog” is such a fun, silly, sweet story. But then I’m a Wimsey/Vane uberfan, so I was morally obligated to like it.
I love the Wimsey/Vane stories myself, but am not clear of the connection between them and the Willis book. More info, please?
geekgirl wrote:
Connie Willis’ “To Say Nothing of the Dog” is such a fun, silly, sweet story. But then I’m a Wimsey/Vane uberfan, so I was morally obligated to like it.
I love the Wimsey/Vane stories myself, but am not clear of the connection between them and the Willis book. More info, please?
The story is a very convoluted comedy of errors, about time traveling oxford historians. There are a bunch of literary references, especially tonnes of Dorothy Sayers. It reads very much like one of her books, with quick wit, great dialogue, and odd characters. It’s a wonderfully fun read and I highly recommend it if you’re a Wimsey fan. 🙂
spamword: present44
I could present 44 reasons to read it, but I’d spoil it terribly.
Suze, you might like another of Connie Willis’ novels, “The Doomsday Book.” In her time travelling universe graduate students conduct their research by visiting history – but only relatively safe periods. However, despite all precautions, Kivrin ends up not in 1320 but in 1343, at the height of Black Death’s rampage through Europe. Her writing well and truly incorporates the many unpleasant aspects of historical life, along with intelligent plots and beautifully rounded characters.
“To Say Nothing of the Dog” is set in the same universe but with a different cast. I’ve read it twice, and found my second reading considerably enhanced by reading Willis’s inspiration, Jerome K Jerome’s classic “Three Men and a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).” Not romances, though there are romantic elements, both novels are excellent and might change your mind about the time travelling genre…
Spamword: talk 43 – I could talk for 43 minutes about how much I enjoyed these books
Goodness, if the Connie Willis books are inspired both by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jerome K. Jerome, I really ought to overcome my caution about time travel and give them a go. Thanks to those who have described them for the information!
Time traveling Oxford historians with references to Dorothy Sayers and JKJ sounds irresistible. I’m in. Heading for Amazon now.
Time traveling Oxford historians with references to Dorothy Sayers and JKJ sounds irresistible. I’m in. Heading for Amazon now.
Just keep in mind that “To Say Nothing of the Dog” is considerably lighter in tone than “The Doomsday Book” and though occuring in the same universe they’re standalones. Enjoy 🙂
I’m a huge fan of time travel. Besides many of those already mentioned a couple of my faves were written by Kristin Hannah – Once in Every Lifetime and When Lightning Strikes. Another favourite and as far as I can figure one of a very few books she wrote is Stardust Time by Marti Jones. And Linda Lael Miller wrote a very good one with My Outlaw.
RE tehOUTLANDER Series by Diana Gabaldon. Let me say I love Jamie, I need a ‘Jamie ’ in my life. That said. In VOYAGER, when Claire makes arrangements to return to Jamie. What a bomb…One dress, i cloak, no extraas at all. Ever read POISONWOOD BIBLE, ewhen the pilgrims dressed in layers! And for heavens sake Claire made bucketrs of money as a surgeon. She should have planned, and packed better,smarter. EG Line the custom cloak with Waterproofer, Scotchguard, more pockets sewn in the lining for stuff. And a silk dress??? What was she thinking..
Oh well, it’s just a story and I can get bound up in what I woiuld have taken….More Aspirin!.
Cait
Ps, I prefer mine when they stay ing the present when all is said and done. I have the KMMs, the LKs, the COD’Fs Claire Cross, Jenny Lykins,Sherry Lewis, Victoria Alexander, Teresa Medieros, Judi Mccoy , Madeline Baker …Too amny to list them all.
I think by the volume of comments this thread inspired that authors and publishers should pay attention and get us more TT books on the shelves to buy!
The first time travel I read was a YA a girl who went back in time to the court of Edward VI. She becomes the sickly prince’s favorite and deduces that the prince had asthma and diet problems, thereby curing him. She then fell for Edward’s best friend, and got on the Seymours’ bad side. Eventually she goes back to the future only to realize that by changing the past, America became a Spanish territory. She ended up undoing what she did and got her guy-who timetravelled to the future.
My second time travel was Teresa Medeiros’ book with Arian the witch. I adored the heroine and hero, and it’s the first book where my face part was before the couple got together. Arian’s adjustment to life in 1998 was very entertaining.
I’m open TT, but I don’t go seek them out.