Constance O'Day-Flannery

Ah yes, the queen of time travel romance, as they say about this author and it's so true! I've always enjoyed her writing because it conveys the undulating slowness of courtship so beautifully.

In "Once and Forever," I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of pagan history and knowledge in it, and my pagan heart soared when the author wrote "So mote it be." Woohoo! :)

One of my favorite quotes from the book:

"I think humility is seeing the truth and not denying it, with the gracious ability to thank the observer. Perhaps that is what I might teach you... not to give your power away so easily." (Once and Forever, Constance O'Day-Flannery)… (mehr)

Time travel is one of my favorite genres. I was eager to read TKP because I have been looking for a copy for a long time. It starts out with our modern day(1988) heroine, Kristine, getting sucked into the past(1871) and meeting Sean. I really enjoyed this part of the book. It was interesting and the pace was good. Eventually our hero and heroine plunge into the heroine's time in her modern day. Here is where the book just dies for me, a slow, tortuous, agonizing death. It was awful. There was a lot of description of modern day marvels, etc.: this just made the book sound 'dated' and younger readers may not even know the items being referenced (but that didn't bother me that much). The description of Kristine getting back to her career and daily life was dull. Finally the hero and the heroine get some romance going and the story picks up a little, with some conflict. Some of this was pretty hard to swallow, but it, of course, came to it's conclusion with more craziness. I liked the epilogue. This would not be a keeper for me. I gave it 3 stars, because I really liked the hero and heroine.… (mehr)