A Good YarnThe tale is a good yarn, primarily along the romantic side with touches of historical data incorporated throughout. The author provides a substantial amount of detail about the main characters which makes them all the more realistic. Although I found it a bit slow at the beginning, I soon began to enjoy the colourful characters and found it flowed along nicely. If you have never read a S. Kearsley’s book then I highly recommend “Mariana” as a first pick which was superb. Read these three stars as 2.5. I liked the book, but found quite a bit of it implausible. An odd phrase to use when discussing a book about time travel!Our heroine, Eva Ward has returned to the Cornish coast, where she spent summers during her childhood, to recover from the death of her beloved sister and to scatter her ashes off the coast. She begins to experience some odd things - hears voices that shouldn't be there, sees wavering images of people and paths where there should be none, etc. And, then suddenly, she finds herself in the past! A few hundred years in the past - during the time period of the Jacobite rebellion. Normally associated with Scotland, the Jacobites also had a niche on the Cornish coast. Now normally when we see historic Cornwall we see smugglers - and we are not disappointed. The men that Eva meets in the past are indeed smugglers. Extremely unique smugglers, if I do say so. These men are surprised when Eva (essentially) apparates and disapparates before their very eyes, but they don't accuse her of being a witch or anything else. She tells them her tale and their reaction is akin to: "Really, you are from the future? How did you get back here? Let me get you some period appropriate clothing to wear so our less enlightened brethren don't burn you as a the witch."Their blase reaction really bothered me, other than that, I liked the twist at the end - truly did not see it coming.
What do You think about Un Amor Contra El Viento (2012)?
This book was really slow to get into but I'm glad I stuck with it because I ended up enjoying it.
—Asmiov
Ah, another time-travel romance that brushes elbows with Jacobites! :) Delightful.
—Betty6419
As usual, this author has thoroughly enchanted me!
—stacy
