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The Mists Of Time (2010)

by Susan Squires(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312943555 (ISBN13: 9780312943554)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Paperbacks

series

Da Vinci Time Travel

review 1: I read a short story by Squires and loved it, and bought two books on the strength of that story.I disliked this book so much I stopped reading it in the middle.Why? Well, there's certain things I hate in a novel (especially a romance novel), and this book had it all. Main character is a romance writer. This seems like a blatant self-insertion.
Female character has no friends.
Male character has no friends. The no-friends thing bugs me on two levels. First of all, if someone truly has no friends it's hard to believe they could build a romantic relationship. Secondly, it's a cop-out by the writer so s/he doesn't have to create any more characters. It's lazy writing.
Diana's superpower is that she knows what people are going to say before they say it. (This is w... morehy she can't have any friends.) However, we learn this is her superpower because she's continually surprised when she DOESN'T know what a character is going to say. The reader needs to be SHOWN how this impacts her life - just saying "She knows what people are going to say next, and that makes her weird, so she has no friends" isn't enough.
Medraut's name is spelled both Medraut and Medraught in the beginning of the novel - it's like no one ever did the "search and replace" when they changed the spelling at the last minute. It's not that people are calling him by different names, like when they call him Mordred later - this is just a case where the spelling switches back and forth. (This is the fault of the copy editor and not the writer - but it's darn annoying.)
The bad guy is just eeeeeeeeevil, a cardboard cutout evil, without any real character depth. Because of this, he's not particularly scary.
Boy, if I had to hear Diana's inner voice talking about how boring and ugly she was one more time, I was going to throw the book across the room. A little self-doubt is OK, but the level to which the character had it was unreadable.
I just didn't like the hero. His character didn't gel for me. It just didn't seem consistent. And where the heck did he get his money if he spent so much time in jail? Perhaps this was explained later, but I never got to that part.
Too much of the author trying to show off how well she knew the city by tediously specifying each street the character uses to get from point A to point B, but no description of the character of any neighborhood. It felt like I was reading Google Maps.
I am sure this worked for plenty of other people, but all of the above stuck in my craw.
review 2: THE MISTS OF TIME by Susan Squires is a time travel romance set in modern day San Francisco and goes back to the days of Camelot.A Davinci Time Travel novel. It is well written with details, depth, adventure, page turner and fast paced. It has adventure,magic, Merlin, romance, intrigue,knights, mystery, time travel, secrets, betrayal, danger,a race to prevent an ancient evil force from wreaking havocand mayham on the presen, .the unexpected and passion. The heroine, Diana is beautiful, a romance writer, doesn't remember her past, complicated, sexy and will travel back in time to Camelot and King Arthur and Guinevere's court.The hero, Gawain, is a knight of old,is Diana's protector, takes him twelve years to find her, and finds her intriguing. Together they must try to save the present by going back to the past,and not meet their past shelves. Diana must face her past, where she will meet her mother and learn of her true birth and who her father really his. They will together face danger, adventure, passion and learn true love. This is a wonderful story of Camelot refreshed, betrayal, trust, magic,facing the past and the future.I would recommend this book if you enjoy time travel, Camelot, magic, Merlin, knights of old. and a love that spans the ages of time you will enjoy this one. This book was received for review and details can be found at St. Martin's Press and My Book Addiction and More. less

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