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My Review:Title: The Librarian
Author: Christy Sloat
Published by: CHBB Publishing
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 267
Genres: Historical, Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge, CC's Science Fiction vs Fantasy Bingo 2018
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:
Blurb:He’s from 1892 England, she’s in a small library in 2017. And that's just the start of their troubles.
Emme never meant to stay in Maine. She'd come only to find a librarian for her Gram's library, a custodian for the collection of mysterious books she'd promised to protect. On a dark, wintery night, alone in the library, she takes her first glance into one of the antique novels and finds herself transported to 1892 England staring into the eyes of handsome and dashing hero Jack Ridgewell. As each chapter passes she learns you can truly fall in love with a character in a book, that book boyfriends are real and Emme must choose between the real world, and his.
When the last page is read he's gone and Emme feels the cold loneliness of lost love. Will she find Jack again, or will their love be forever lost? The answer lies within the pages…
This book meets the wibbly wobbly time travel space requirement for #SFvFBingo being hosted by Curiosity Killed the Bookworm.
It seems like a great beginning but I kept losing focus and the storyline seemed to be too linear for me. It just felt a bit off and by the time I got to 30% I was no longer interested in what happened to the characters. So I had to put it down. Also, there seemed to be quite a few errors in the timeline.
Emme was in college for one year and studying to be a teacher, then she talked about being almost done with school when her grandma got sick. It takes longer to get a degree than 2 years.
Her best friend was a doctor already. When did they become friends? When she was 11? When she was in middle school? And when did she have time to be friends with her while going to medical school and doing her residency. Big time descrepancy here.
The time travel aspect was pretty cool but the characters weren’t developing quickly enough and we didn’t really know the why of the time traveling. The story just wasn’t going anywhere.
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