The Mists of Time (Da Vinci Time Travel, #4)

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The Mists of Time (Da Vinci Time Travel #4)

by Susan Squires (Goodreads Author)

3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 · rating details · 176 ratings · 34 reviews

Diana Dearborn knows all about romance, at least in the books she writes. But passion eludes her in real life--until she's offered the chance to travel back in time to Camelot. The world of King Arthur and Guinevere is nothing like she pictured, neither is the knight she encounters on her return to San Francisco: Gawain, the hero of her current project. He's complicated,

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Paperback, 339 pages

Published August 31st 2010 by St. Martin's Paperbacks

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Oct 28, 2010 Tori smexys_sidekick rated it 2 of 5 stars

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Originally posted at http://www.smexybooks.com/2010/10/rev...

I actually gave this a 2.5 stars but goodreads doesn't allow for that.

Blurb: Diana Dearborn knows all about romance, at least in the books she writes. But passion eludes her in real life—until she’s offered the chance to travel back in time to Camelot. The world of King Arthur and Guinevere is nothing like she imagined, neither is the knight she encounters on her return to San Francisco: Gawain, the hero of her current project. He’s co...more Originally posted at http://www.smexybooks.com/2010/10/rev...

I actually gave this a 2.5 stars but goodreads doesn't allow for that.

Blurb: Diana Dearborn knows all about romance, at least in the books she writes. But passion eludes her in real life—until she’s offered the chance to travel back in time to Camelot. The world of King Arthur and Guinevere is nothing like she imagined, neither is the knight she encounters on her return to San Francisco: Gawain, the hero of her current project. He’s complicated, mysterious, and sexier than anything her imagination could conjure. And he’s been waiting for her...

Diana and Gawain must prevent an ancient, evil force from wreaking mayhem in the all-too-real present. But even if their mission succeeds, does Diana’s destiny lie with this man from another time—and will their love alter history forever?

The premise of the book is fabulous. Time travel back to the time of Camelot. I adore any stories revolving around time travel and Camelot. Can anyone say Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Author’s Court? Loved it. The twist and turns that Ms. Squires gives the tale of Camelot and it’s inhabitants is fresh and intriguing. Evil rises in the past to threaten the future. The use of magic and strategy throughout the story gives a modern feel to an old tale. But it stagnates at times. The story reads fast at times and exceedingly slow at others. I found myself flipping back through pages thinking I had missed something.

Our heroine, Diane Dearborn, is a modern day romance writer who cannot seem to find love for herself. When she is offered a key to return in time she jumps at the chance. When she arrives, she lands in the middle of a battle. She grabs the first sword carrying warrior she sees, jumps back into the machine, and travels back to the 21st century. Only this is no ordinary warrior. He is a wizard who has come to the future to change it.

Diane keeps dreaming of a nameless man who tells her to, ”Remember-trust me.” When Diane meets Gawain and realizes it’s her dream man she instantly thinks stalker. As they interact more she disabuses the notion he is from the past and thinks he’s insane. The same past that she just came from. I did not understand that. Gawain is/was a knight of Camelot and has waited forever for Diane to remember him. He was sent forward in time to find her but missed her by 12 years. Soon it becomes apparent that Diane has a connection to Camelot and Gawain dating back to her childhood. As these two connect emotionally and physically we are swept along into a complex and dark tale of betrayal and revenge that spans time.

Diane and Gawain were hard for me connect to. The emotional immaturity of these two gives off a juvenile vibe. There is so much angst and insecurity between these two it’s as if the author had to make sure we understood these characters were two extremely vulnerable tortured individuals. The scenes between them are at times romantic and sexy; yet other times I felt I was watching to two socially inept teenagers. They do not develop well for me within the story.

The main storyline matures and speeds up towards the end when the focus is more on the plot then the romance. Ms.Squires incorporates Diane's mysterious past into the arc and fleshes out the background story in a believable manner. The secondary characters are personable and add depth and spirit to the story.

While certain parts of this story were enjoyable; over all it just didn’t work for me. It has a rushed, incomplete feel to it.(less)

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Sep 18, 2010 Donna rated it 3 of 5 stars

I tried to love this book, but I just couldn't. I didn't find either Gawain or Diana particularly appealing. Their insecurities became more and more irritiating as the story went on. I realize that their self doubts was one of thep oints of the story, but that didn't make it any less irritating. Also,the reason for the two of them being sent to the future didn't seem to make a lot of sense.

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Mar 18, 2013 Sandra rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really got into the first of this series, but by this last one, it seemed repetitive to the point that at the beginning, I thought I was re-reading a book.
One of my pet peeves is that the cover art PLEASE reflect the story there in! Wow, how hard is it for book company's to give the artist a one page out line on what the characters look like??? I've been reading a long time and you would think they could figure this out. But no. You pick up a book in a store and buy it because the cover art a...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Shagufta rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nice genre involving time travel. Overall, a nice and easy read.

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Feb 11, 2012 jackie frye rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Diana Dearborn was a romance author with low self esteem and she has a stalker. She could not remember her childhood before the age of 13, her adopted parents were dead, and her new book was not going well. A stranger gave her an old leather bound book by Da Vinci with instructions for using a time machine he invented in the back of the book. The time machine was located below the museum in which she worked. Diana decided to use the machine to visit Camelot. The machine worked and she found hers...more

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May 24, 2011 Nicole rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: frothy-romance

I read a short story by Squires and loved it, and bought two books on the strength of that story.

I disliked this book so much I stopped reading it in the middle.

Why? Well, there's certain things I hate in a novel (especially a romance novel), and this book had it all.

Main character is a romance writer. This seems like a blatant self-insertion. Female character has no friends. Male character has no friends. The no-friends thing bugs me on two levels. First of all, if someone truly has no friends...more I read a short story by Squires and loved it, and bought two books on the strength of that story.

I disliked this book so much I stopped reading it in the middle.

Why? Well, there's certain things I hate in a novel (especially a romance novel), and this book had it all.

Main character is a romance writer. This seems like a blatant self-insertion. Female character has no friends. Male character has no friends. The no-friends thing bugs me on two levels. First of all, if someone truly has no friends it's hard to believe they could build a romantic relationship. Secondly, it's a cop-out by the writer so s/he doesn't have to create any more characters. It's lazy writing. Diana's superpower is that she knows what people are going to say before they say it. (This is why she can't have any friends.) However, we learn this is her superpower because she's continually surprised when she DOESN'T know what a character is going to say. The reader needs to be SHOWN how this impacts her life - just saying "She knows what people are going to say next, and that makes her weird, so she has no friends" isn't enough. Medraut's name is spelled both Medraut and Medraught in the beginning of the novel - it's like no one ever did the "search and replace" when they changed the spelling at the last minute. It's not that people are calling him by different names, like when they call him Mordred later - this is just a case where the spelling switches back and forth. (This is the fault of the copy editor and not the writer - but it's darn annoying.) The bad guy is just eeeeeeeeevil, a cardboard cutout evil, without any real character depth. Because of this, he's not particularly scary. Boy, if I had to hear Diana's inner voice talking about how boring and ugly she was one more time, I was going to throw the book across the room. A little self-doubt is OK, but the level to which the character had it was unreadable. I just didn't like the hero. His character didn't gel for me. It just didn't seem consistent. And where the heck did he get his money if he spent so much time in jail? Perhaps this was explained later, but I never got to that part. Too much of the author trying to show off how well she knew the city by tediously specifying each street the character uses to get from point A to point B, but no description of the character of any neighborhood. It felt like I was reading Google Maps.

I am sure this worked for plenty of other people, but all of the above stuck in my craw.(less)

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Oct 02, 2010 April rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: time-travel-romance-camelot

THE MISTS OF TIME by Susan Squires is a time travel romance set in modern day San Francisco and goes back to the days of Camelot.A Davinci Time Travel novel. It is well written with details, depth, adventure, page turner and fast paced. It has adventure,magic, Merlin, romance, intrigue,knights, mystery, time travel, secrets, betrayal, danger,a race to prevent an ancient evil force from wreaking havocand mayham on the presen, .the unexpected and passion. The heroine, Diana is beautiful, a romance...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jumped into this series in the middle--which I usually hate doing!--but found this book and was intrigued as it involves the legend of Camelot/King Arthur and time travel, which are 2 of my absolute favorite things to read about.

It was a fun book. An inventive take on time travel and what ifs.

I will definitely be on the look out for the others in the Da Vinci Time Travel series.

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May 29, 2011 Barbara Monajem rated it 5 of 5 stars

A lovely time travel -- moving, romantic, and full of delightful complexities. :)

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May 25, 2012 Ellen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance-series, paranormal-series, contemporary

Gawain, oh you poor troubled man. Who needs magic when you have those muscles?

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May 28, 2012 Michelle the Romance Witch rated it 3 of 5 stars

wow what a weird but interesting story...
more to come later

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Mar 03, 2011 Jean rated it 3 of 5 stars

Again, although I liked it there was too much smut!

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Aug 27, 2012 Leslie Jonsson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I like her vampire books better....

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Susan Squires is a NYT bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance. Whatever her time period or subject, some element of the paranormal creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the ten most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best Book. Time for Eternity received a s...more

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