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Ye Olde Antique Shoppe: The Edward V Coin
A Timeslip Adventure When Rachel's last remaining relative dies, she expects to inherit her London house. What she does not expect is to also inherit an Antique Shop which has not been opened in more than sixty years. She takes her friend, Peter Attwood, an archaeologist and historian to investigate the shop, but what they find is far more than a simple neglected retail store. They discover a coin minted at the time of the young King Edward V, but when they try to remove it from the shop, they step outside and into 1483, the year the coin was minted. Wanting to see the princes in the Tower and perhaps discover the truth of what happened to them, Peter persuades Rachel to dress in some of the historical clothing in the back room of the antique shop, and visit the Tower. There they watch the young King Edward V writing and when he leaves his scroll on a stone bench, Peter takes the opportunity to grab it. A journal written by one of the princes could be worth a fortune, but when they try to take it out of the shop, they find the same it cannot be taken into the twenty first century. A scheme to hide the scroll in the fifteenth century and find it again in the twenty-first seems an easy option, until they are observed digging it up and accused of witchcraft.
157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 30, 2018
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About the author
Margaret Brazear
79 books22 followersMargaret Brazear was born in 1948 in London where she remained until she married in 1968. Ever since she can remember, she has always had a vivid imagination, making up little scenarios and stories. Her maternal grandmother was Romany and her first full length book, The Romany Princess, is loosely based on the stories that her mother used to recount.
Margaret started writing some thirty years ago, but family and events got in the way until she found Amazon.
Website http://www.margaret-brazear-kindle-au...
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Margaret started writing some thirty years ago, but family and events got in the way until she found Amazon.
Website http://www.margaret-brazear-kindle-au...
Email margaret-brazear@sky.com
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March 29, 2021
First in the Ye Olde Antique Shoppe science fiction time travel series and revolving around Rachel Jarrod? and her friend Peter Atwood.
My Take
Okay, well, Rachel is quite honest in wanting to sell everything off so she can fulfill her dreams.
It is a fantasy of mine, being able to travel back in time, and I think I'd do much better than these two. For all Peter's knowledge about the past, he's incredibly clueless. As for Rachel, I wanna smack her upside the head. I'm all for women's lib — and I suppose with Rachel's lack of awareness of past history, we should, ahem, excuse her, but...bloody hell...
Yep, we learn all this through third person dual protagonist point-of-view from Rachel's and Peter's perspectives. Sadly.
I was really confused about the house ownership. It sounded as if the house had been in the family, and they had rented it out while living in the basement. But then Brazear says the family eventually bought the whole house...oh, oh, I finally see it...as I dissect this bit. No reader should have to worry at it to figure out what the author is saying. I hate that.
Okay, no. That bit is wrong. Later, Brazear claims the house was signed over to Charlie, but even that makes no sense, as I don't see how a grunt soldier could have afforded such a huge house...?? It's these inconsistencies that add on to my annoyance with this story...sigh...
Just how on earth does Peter believe he'll be able to pass this container off as hundreds of years old? He does nothing much to prep it to fake the professor out, and yet he should know better as an archeologist.
Sure, it was action-packed with plenty of adventure, but their mutual idiocy was a real turn-off. Well, it didn't help that Brazear had some too-obvious spelling errors.
The Story
A scary feeling antique shop with a room designated as off-limits. It's part of Rachel's inheritance, and she sees it as a source of funding for her dream.
Peter, on the other hand, sees it as a treasure chest of primary sources...going back in time.
The Characters
Rachel is a fashion designer with dreams of opening her own atelier. David is Rachel's father and the baby of the family. Charlie Jarrod, an antiques dealer, had been his oldest brother. Their sisters had included Iris.
Peter Atwood is Rachel's longtime friend, a gay man, an archeologist, and a medievalist, working at the London Museum.
Ye Olde Antique Shoppe has stood empty since Charlie died in 1955. Isabel had been a past love of Charlie's. How past, we don't know. Cyril Rhodes is the Jarrod family solicitor. Professor Carlton works in the medieval history department at Oxford University.
The Mid-1400s
Edward and Richard are the young royals with Edward to be crowned. If their uncle Richard allows it. Lord Rivers is the young boys' maternal uncle as well as their half-brother. Philip Smithson is the vicar. Father Matthew. Michael Sanders, the Earl of Chadwin, is the lord of this manor.
Tom knows all about the antique shop and works his delivery business.
The Cover and Title
The cover is promising with its hazy old brown façade of Ye Olde Antique Shoppe (in gilt) with a pair of bow windows on either side of a pair of arched doors with a flagstone sidewalk. At the very top are vines dangling over the red brick spanning the width of the cover. The series info follows the top header that spans the front of the building. At the bottom is a golden Edward V coin on the left with the title in a silvered gold shadowed gothic-style font. Below this is the author's name in the same colors.
The title is all about the treasure found, the key, The Edward V Coin.
My Take
Okay, well, Rachel is quite honest in wanting to sell everything off so she can fulfill her dreams.
It is a fantasy of mine, being able to travel back in time, and I think I'd do much better than these two. For all Peter's knowledge about the past, he's incredibly clueless. As for Rachel, I wanna smack her upside the head. I'm all for women's lib — and I suppose with Rachel's lack of awareness of past history, we should, ahem, excuse her, but...bloody hell...
Yep, we learn all this through third person dual protagonist point-of-view from Rachel's and Peter's perspectives. Sadly.
I was really confused about the house ownership. It sounded as if the house had been in the family, and they had rented it out while living in the basement. But then Brazear says the family eventually bought the whole house...oh, oh, I finally see it...as I dissect this bit. No reader should have to worry at it to figure out what the author is saying. I hate that.
Okay, no. That bit is wrong. Later, Brazear claims the house was signed over to Charlie, but even that makes no sense, as I don't see how a grunt soldier could have afforded such a huge house...?? It's these inconsistencies that add on to my annoyance with this story...sigh...
Just how on earth does Peter believe he'll be able to pass this container off as hundreds of years old? He does nothing much to prep it to fake the professor out, and yet he should know better as an archeologist.
Sure, it was action-packed with plenty of adventure, but their mutual idiocy was a real turn-off. Well, it didn't help that Brazear had some too-obvious spelling errors.
The Story
A scary feeling antique shop with a room designated as off-limits. It's part of Rachel's inheritance, and she sees it as a source of funding for her dream.
Peter, on the other hand, sees it as a treasure chest of primary sources...going back in time.
The Characters
Rachel is a fashion designer with dreams of opening her own atelier. David is Rachel's father and the baby of the family. Charlie Jarrod, an antiques dealer, had been his oldest brother. Their sisters had included Iris.
Peter Atwood is Rachel's longtime friend, a gay man, an archeologist, and a medievalist, working at the London Museum.
Ye Olde Antique Shoppe has stood empty since Charlie died in 1955. Isabel had been a past love of Charlie's. How past, we don't know. Cyril Rhodes is the Jarrod family solicitor. Professor Carlton works in the medieval history department at Oxford University.
The Mid-1400s
Edward and Richard are the young royals with Edward to be crowned. If their uncle Richard allows it. Lord Rivers is the young boys' maternal uncle as well as their half-brother. Philip Smithson is the vicar. Father Matthew. Michael Sanders, the Earl of Chadwin, is the lord of this manor.
Tom knows all about the antique shop and works his delivery business.
The Cover and Title
The cover is promising with its hazy old brown façade of Ye Olde Antique Shoppe (in gilt) with a pair of bow windows on either side of a pair of arched doors with a flagstone sidewalk. At the very top are vines dangling over the red brick spanning the width of the cover. The series info follows the top header that spans the front of the building. At the bottom is a golden Edward V coin on the left with the title in a silvered gold shadowed gothic-style font. Below this is the author's name in the same colors.
The title is all about the treasure found, the key, The Edward V Coin.
February 13, 2021
I love time travel books, especially when they have a good plot and well rounded characters. This had neither. The premise is good, Rachel inherits a shop and a large house. There is a plaque on a door to a back room that requests that items are not removed from the area. Of course, a coin from the reign of Edward V, one of the princes in the tower, is located and Rachel and her friend Peter find themselves back in the mid 1480's.
The thing is, Peter for an historian, is rather stupid. Rachel is annoying, in that she will not listen to the expert. They come and go to the time period several times but do not really plan. In this I found the characters very one-dimensional. This story had all the ingredients to be something. I was left disappointed. I will read the next, as they are short, to see if the characters improve. I think these books are more teenage/young adult than for the older reader.
One thing, the proofreader kept leaving the word 'passed' instead of 'past'. Jarring.
The thing is, Peter for an historian, is rather stupid. Rachel is annoying, in that she will not listen to the expert. They come and go to the time period several times but do not really plan. In this I found the characters very one-dimensional. This story had all the ingredients to be something. I was left disappointed. I will read the next, as they are short, to see if the characters improve. I think these books are more teenage/young adult than for the older reader.
One thing, the proofreader kept leaving the word 'passed' instead of 'past'. Jarring.
January 16, 2021
I'm one of those annoying people who'd love to step into a time machine and go on adventures, so how could I ignore Margaret Brazear's Ye Olde Antique Shoppe series? It has a wonderful premise. An antique store that's not been open for over sixty years. A coin that takes a person into another time when it's removed from the building. Period costumes aplenty to use as camouflage...
For the most part, the premise lived up to its promise, but there were two things that irritated me a bit. One was the proofreader who was unable to tell when to use "past" instead of "passed." This happened several times and is such an easy fix. The second irritation concerned the characters. Rachel is in it for the money. She's a Here & Now Girl who doesn't give a hoot about the past or anything else other than gathering up the money for her fashion house. Okay. She and I aren't going to be BFFs, but that's not the thing that bothered me the most. What really made me roll my eyes was the fact that she became all fire-breathing feminist when she went back into the past, and she refused to keep her mouth shut even when she learned what the consequences were for her verbal diarrhea. Peter was better-- but not much. For a supposed expert, he was absolute rubbish at planning ahead. This is good for getting characters into scrapes that they have to figure their way out of, but I'd rather have those scrapes be unforeseen circumstances instead of something brought on by a lack of basic logic.
Were Rachel and Peter irritating enough to keep me from continuing with the series? No, at least not enough to keep me from reading the second book. I liked the look into that period of English history, and when the two begin to learn what Rachel's uncle was up to with his magical antique shop and those historical costumes, I wanted to know more. Besides, it's still a marvelous premise, and I want to see how the author develops it.
For the most part, the premise lived up to its promise, but there were two things that irritated me a bit. One was the proofreader who was unable to tell when to use "past" instead of "passed." This happened several times and is such an easy fix. The second irritation concerned the characters. Rachel is in it for the money. She's a Here & Now Girl who doesn't give a hoot about the past or anything else other than gathering up the money for her fashion house. Okay. She and I aren't going to be BFFs, but that's not the thing that bothered me the most. What really made me roll my eyes was the fact that she became all fire-breathing feminist when she went back into the past, and she refused to keep her mouth shut even when she learned what the consequences were for her verbal diarrhea. Peter was better-- but not much. For a supposed expert, he was absolute rubbish at planning ahead. This is good for getting characters into scrapes that they have to figure their way out of, but I'd rather have those scrapes be unforeseen circumstances instead of something brought on by a lack of basic logic.
Were Rachel and Peter irritating enough to keep me from continuing with the series? No, at least not enough to keep me from reading the second book. I liked the look into that period of English history, and when the two begin to learn what Rachel's uncle was up to with his magical antique shop and those historical costumes, I wanted to know more. Besides, it's still a marvelous premise, and I want to see how the author develops it.
August 13, 2018
Potential
I'm not a writer so I don't know what it takes to write a book. As a reader I was disappointed in this story. It had such a great plot and had the potential to be so much more. The main character in the book could have some how time lapsed and met a family member who ended up be someone famous in history or just made more of the travel experience. I hope this book is a series otherwise just a weak ending.
I'm not a writer so I don't know what it takes to write a book. As a reader I was disappointed in this story. It had such a great plot and had the potential to be so much more. The main character in the book could have some how time lapsed and met a family member who ended up be someone famous in history or just made more of the travel experience. I hope this book is a series otherwise just a weak ending.
December 25, 2018
Couldn't finish it
It's not real often In sorry I picked up a book. This could be been a fabulous tale of adventure, history and time travel but the useless sexual innuendo ruined for me. No doubt some people will be scratching their head head and so deep g what I'm talking g about. Makes me sad.
It's not real often In sorry I picked up a book. This could be been a fabulous tale of adventure, history and time travel but the useless sexual innuendo ruined for me. No doubt some people will be scratching their head head and so deep g what I'm talking g about. Makes me sad.
May 10, 2019
This book was fantastic. It was educational, funny, interesting, funny and did I say it was funny?
There were only two main characters but that was all you needed to keep up with. They go on an adventure from the past and almost get stuck there. I think you will really enjoy reading this one. I'm looking for more of Margaret Bragear's books.
There were only two main characters but that was all you needed to keep up with. They go on an adventure from the past and almost get stuck there. I think you will really enjoy reading this one. I'm looking for more of Margaret Bragear's books.
October 14, 2019
It took me a while to finish this book -- I hardly read on my Kindle anymore except when traveling. This book was about time-traveling. It had an interesting premise, but I felt like it could have had more depth. However, I enjoyed what I read, and realized at the end that there are more adventures coming.
July 9, 2021
Enjoyed The Edward V Coin, But Felt Shortchanged
Really liked the premise. The characters weren’t particularly engaging, probably because the book was so short. Seemed like a prequel, intended to sell its sequels. Would’ve liked more character development, and experiencing a few more of their adventures. I’d read the next book, but it may be awhile.
Really liked the premise. The characters weren’t particularly engaging, probably because the book was so short. Seemed like a prequel, intended to sell its sequels. Would’ve liked more character development, and experiencing a few more of their adventures. I’d read the next book, but it may be awhile.
September 24, 2021
Enjoyable Quick Read
This story is a quick read. The two characters are likeable and the time travel storyline is interesting. There’s not a lot of historical detail or depth but I can see the potential for further stories to develop more. I will be reading the next book to see how plots and characters progress.
This story is a quick read. The two characters are likeable and the time travel storyline is interesting. There’s not a lot of historical detail or depth but I can see the potential for further stories to develop more. I will be reading the next book to see how plots and characters progress.
February 22, 2020
Time Travel
I don't really like the character Rachel, too full of herself, but the rest if the story wasn't bad. Would appreciate a little more respect for the historical part, but I'll try a second volume.
I don't really like the character Rachel, too full of herself, but the rest if the story wasn't bad. Would appreciate a little more respect for the historical part, but I'll try a second volume.
December 28, 2020
Antique shoppe caught my intetedt
I liked the book. It was a very fast read. Not at all what I expected when I began reading. I would have liked more historical details. The book is not what it could be if it was more about the history of the time. I call it historical lite.
I liked the book. It was a very fast read. Not at all what I expected when I began reading. I would have liked more historical details. The book is not what it could be if it was more about the history of the time. I call it historical lite.
February 12, 2021
Interesting concept. An old store is inherited. Within the shop is a room with historic dress. If you take anything out of the room, you'll step back in time to that period. Not my favorite time period to go back to but it was interesting.
March 9, 2021
Nice premise; unlikable characters
Two people travel back in time and only think of fame and fortune. The most unlikable thing for me is instead of learning from it, they can't seem to accept the time they are in and say and do life threatening things.
Two people travel back in time and only think of fame and fortune. The most unlikable thing for me is instead of learning from it, they can't seem to accept the time they are in and say and do life threatening things.
March 16, 2021
Love time travel books. This one had the ingredients to be very good, but fell short. The characters needed more depth, more common sense and someone in the past to anchor them going back To be two adults, neither of the main characters showed a lot of common sense.
Wished for more.
Wished for more.
July 16, 2020
Good read
A very unique story line. Good characters. Can learn a little history as an added bonus. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
A very unique story line. Good characters. Can learn a little history as an added bonus. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
August 31, 2020
As a history buff I enjoyed this book.
July 25, 2021
As much as I love time slip books this really was rubbish and expensive I won’t be reading the rest in the series sad really as I have other books by this author and they were very good
August 27, 2021
Fun read. Quick and to the point. Will read more of the series.
July 27, 2022
While I realize this was just the first installment of this time-travel series, I felt it strangely incomplete, with no complexity at all to the story line. Perhaps further volumes will change this impression, but this one didn't leave me in a hurry to read the later ones.
April 16, 2023
Time travel by Coin
This a wonderful story about time travel. All they needed was to wear clothes from the time period and carry a coin from the past.
This a wonderful story about time travel. All they needed was to wear clothes from the time period and carry a coin from the past.
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