Jude Deveraux

A woman gets ditched by her shitty boyfriend while on vacation in England, and while she’s crying over him in an old church, a nobleman from 400 years in the past is pulled through time by her tears. She helps him find out who betrayed him to the queen all those years ago and caused his wrongful execution. They fall in love. He gets sucked back in time. She cries a lot. Again. Then *she* gets zapped back in time to save him because he’d still been executed even after discovering at least part of the truth in the future. They fall in love again. She gets pulled back to the future. She cries a lot. Again.

Ugh. This 80s romance novel has not aged well, although, to be honest, bad writing is pretty much always bad writing. Plot holes and contradictions don’t breed in the pages over time. It’s just…not good. However, if you squint, tilt your head just right, and replace the two MCs with Nandor and Guillermo from What We Do in the Shadows, it almost kind of works.… (altro)

This was 10% mystery, 20% romance and 70% soap opera. I didn't feel like I was reading a cozy mystery. I felt like I was watching an episode of General Hospital.

So many characters. The plot so convoluted, contrived, fantastical and... silly! Just like those soap operas in their heyday during the 90's that I watched as a tween. Well, I've outgrown them so I did not enjoy reading this but like any soap opera, you stick around to see how it all ends. Most things were wrapped up nicely except...

Spoiler: Why did Reid go through all that trouble of sawing Oliver's skull open, remove his brain and then find Kate's toy hedgehog to fill in the gap? Did he know Rachel put jewels inside it? Why not remove the jewels greedy as he was? And if he didn't, why go through all that trouble? Was he just that insane with anger? The author didn't address it at all.… (altro)