From the Bookshelf of Baltimore County Public Library Summer Reading BCPL SRC …

[close] This book is certainly a non-thinking book, meant for the beach when you have to keep one eye on the kids as they play in the surf. It's pretty predictable as far as plot goes (but that is not necessarily the problem, for me at least. I tend to read romance books for the predictability of the plot lines). The trouble comes in the characterization. Jamie (the heroine) has very little back story. The reader does not understand why she is a geek. We get one page of her playing a multi-player online game. We get one paragraph of what her job is (she's apparently a song writer and a pretty good pianist, but we don't get much information on that until half way through the book). This is a time-travel romance, but it doesn't live up to the possible repurcussions of a woman from 2012 being shoved into 1816. The hero (whose name is Micah, but Jamie never calls him that, she calls him Mike) does not have the problems you would expect from a peer of the realm confronted with a woman who speaks her mind and uses foul language. All that being said, once I 'got over' the weak characterizations, I enjoyed the book for what it was (and what I hope it was intented to be), a typical romance novel.