[book] Distant Dreams by Jenny Lykins
Feb. 9th, 2008 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ice_of_dreamsIt's an old book, a time-travel actually. I just finished reading it after taking a break from Jasmine Hayne's the Fortune Hunter (which is a different category all together... really yummy but less filling).
Theme wise, other than time-travel, it's a marrying a stranger type of story. Character wise, the lead lady Shaelyn was all right. She cursed too much and she's not really helpless, but a forgettable character all together.
Alec was the guy who was involved in piracy and stealing slaves to set them free. (There's a political agenda, but it's not really all that fleshed out here, just that he's freeing the slaves in the underground railway) He married his brother's fiancee to get his brother to marry his true love and he has two women waiting on him, his old love Faith and his current wife Shaelyn.
Doses of good irony could be found when Alec worries about his wife while he is with his fiancee. There are good ship scenes, and then there are sickbed scenes (It's some minor character who gets sick to be nursed back to health, but still instrumental to the total flow... and how everyone goes happy) Predictable ending though. Predictable marriages. And predictable characters.
But I love it because it's a time travel. Now I'm going to go back to Fortune Hunter because it's a hot book, it's an arranged marriage and it's kinky enough to lull me to sleep. Honest. That was an honest sentence.
Theme wise, other than time-travel, it's a marrying a stranger type of story. Character wise, the lead lady Shaelyn was all right. She cursed too much and she's not really helpless, but a forgettable character all together.
Alec was the guy who was involved in piracy and stealing slaves to set them free. (There's a political agenda, but it's not really all that fleshed out here, just that he's freeing the slaves in the underground railway) He married his brother's fiancee to get his brother to marry his true love and he has two women waiting on him, his old love Faith and his current wife Shaelyn.
Doses of good irony could be found when Alec worries about his wife while he is with his fiancee. There are good ship scenes, and then there are sickbed scenes (It's some minor character who gets sick to be nursed back to health, but still instrumental to the total flow... and how everyone goes happy) Predictable ending though. Predictable marriages. And predictable characters.
But I love it because it's a time travel. Now I'm going to go back to Fortune Hunter because it's a hot book, it's an arranged marriage and it's kinky enough to lull me to sleep. Honest. That was an honest sentence.
