Book Review - The Whirlpools of Time by Anna Belfrage @abelfrageauthor @maryanneyarde

 

The Whirlpools of Time

By Anna Belfrage

Publication Date: 11th June 2021. Publisher: Timelight Press. Page Length: 388 Pages. Genre: Time travel romance, Scottish Historical Romance

He hoped for a wife. He found a companion through time and beyond.

It is 1715 and for Duncan Melville something fundamental is missing from his life. Despite a flourishing legal practice and several close friends, he is lonely, even more so after the recent death of his father. He needs a wife—a companion through life, someone to hold and be held by. What he wasn’t expecting was to be torn away from everything he knew and find said woman in 2016…

Erin Barnes has a lot of stuff going on in her life. She doesn’t need the additional twist of a stranger in weird outdated clothes, but when he risks his life to save hers, she feels obligated to return the favour. Besides, whoever Duncan may be, she can’t exactly deny the immediate attraction.

The complications in Erin’s life explode. Events are set in motion and to Erin’s horror she and Duncan are thrown back to 1715. Not only does Erin have to cope with a different and intimidating world, soon enough she and Duncan are embroiled in a dangerous quest for Duncan’s uncle, a quest that may very well cost them their lives as they travel through a Scotland poised on the brink of rebellion.  

Will they find Duncan’s uncle in time? And is the door to the future permanently closed, or will Erin find a way back?

Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚⭐ = A book in a million

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review

The Whirlpools of Time

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.

This is a book that has everything. Do not be fooled into thinking this is simply a time travel romance, and that every scene will be full of love, adoration and kissing (although there are plenty of scenes such as that). There is danger hidden around corners, enemies desperate for revenge, and an uncle that needs to be found before he gets caught up in the Jacobite revolution and gets himself killed.

Duncan may be from the eighteenth century, but he finds the girl he loves in the twenty-first century. In a turn of events, the two find themselves back in 1715, narrowly escaping death, but quickly realising that there are enemies to be made everywhere, and humiliating the wrong person could lead to events that would have best been avoided.

Duncan’s uncle is assumed to be in Scotland, and with the uprising clearly going to happen, his pregnant wife is worried enough for Duncan and Erin to travel to Scotland to find the missing family member and return him to his home. Along the way, the pair find themselves in many altercations that will have you gripping the edge of your seat as you frantically turn the pages, desperate to know whether they will survive and get back to each other safely or not.

Both Duncan and Erin were absolutely lovely to read about, especially when they are together, as they are so clearly in love. They are used to different ways of living, and Erin clearly does not know how to ride a horse, but they make things work, and Erin spends a lot of her time on Duncan’s horse, held in his arms, rather than riding by herself.

This book was absolutely wonderful, and I enjoyed every second of reading it. It is the kind of book that makes you stay up much later than you intended because you don’t want to put it down!

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Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this was impossible, she became a financial professional with two absorbing interests: history and writing. Anna has authored the acclaimed time travelling series The Graham Saga, set in 17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval series The King’s Greatest Enemy which is set in 14th century England.  

Anna has also published The Wanderer, a fast-paced contemporary romantic suspense trilogy with paranormal and time-slip ingredients. Her September 2020 release, His Castilian Hawk, has her returning to medieval times. Set against the complications of Edward I’s invasion of Wales, His Castilian Hawk is a story of loyalty, integrity—and love. Her most recent release, The Whirlpools of Time, is a time travel romance set against the backdrop of brewing rebellion in the Scottish highlands.

All of Anna’s books have been awarded the IndieBRAG Medallion, she has several Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choices, and one of her books won the HNS Indie Award in 2015. She is also the proud recipient of various Reader’s Favorite medals as well as having won various Gold, Silver and Bronze Coffee Pot Book Club awards.

Find out more about Anna, her books and her eclectic historical blog on her website, www.annabelfrage.com .

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