A Train Through Time
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A Train Through Time
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Narrated by:
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Joseph Antone
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By:
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Bess McBride
College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she's on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women's studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night's doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era re-enactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group-handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain-finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie rejects any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream.
She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he... if he's only a figment of her imagination or worse yet... a man who belongs to an era long past?
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elle boards a train in the present, falls asleep and finds herself in 1901. she doesn't believe it even when Robert gives her a newspaper with the date on it.this story goes between past and present. the past she thinks is just a dream.
well written as you are with elle as she cannot understand where she is in the beginning and hoping everthing comes right in the end.
enjoyed the story very much.
I am looking forward to the rest in the series.
enjoyable story.
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I like time travel.
I am even partial to the occasional romance.
But I didn't think much of this.
To my mind, the book has three fatal flaws.
The first, as pointed out by other reviewers, the heroine spends far too much time in denial - first believing cosplay is going on, then insisting she's dreaming. Even though cosplay is quickly ruled out, and dreams are never this consistent.
Any sane person would have said something along the lines of, "Clearly, what I am experiencing is currently indistinguishable from having travelled in time, into the past. I don't know how it happened, I don't know if it's even possible, but until I get better information I need to go along with the idea."
The second flaw is the lack of a time travel model. She's physically present in the past yet it's implied that she's not absent from the present.
Thirdly, and most seriously, she has no obstacles to overcome. So she makes a big one for no reason. The author knows it, because she has the heroine actually saying (words to the effect of) "I don't know why I'm doing this - it doesn't actually make sense - but what the hey."
Very disappointing.
Where's the story?
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