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Sweet story lacking in realism

Reviewed: 12-05-16

While this is a sweet story, everything is completely romanticized. Accepting time travel was relatively easy for the expectant reader, but the way characters accepted her going back and forth so calmly and with perfect equanimity was hard to take. Characters in the past who knew she was from the future were remarkably lacking in curiosity about her world. And I found it disturbing to find our heroine so easily accepting of 18th century life. No mention at all is made of personal hygiene in either time period. No one ever has to use toilet facilities or brush their teeth, the lack of which should have been noticed by our heroine! I don't think she ever even splashed her face with water in the mornings. Life in 1715 would have been very hard, especially for women, but our story has a rosy romantic view of it. But then I guess if I can accept time travel and two strangers falling in love without really knowing each other, why not? I have enjoyed this reader more in other books; here she has difficulty with an American accent.

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