time travel

This is the first Sandra Hill book I have read and it was absolutely brilliant. The storyline was different to most time-travel books. This one has the hero (ROLF) bought forward from the tenth to the twentieth century instead of having the heroine go back in time. The story is hilarious, I have never laughed so much as I did reading it, especially at some of Rolf's pronounciation of the words. Merry-death(Meredith) is a wonderful herione especially when Rolf is trying to put her in her place. He is a real chauvanist but very lovable with it. I can guarentee this book will have you in stitches and tears, a brilliant read. Well done Sandra. I do hope there is going to be a follow on to this book. I can't wait.

I loved this book. It made me laugh and cry and I even found myself breathless after a few of the love scenes. This is the story of Gierolf, or Rolf, the hero, who is a Real Live Viking from the year 997. He is in a boat wreck and somehow ends up in 1997 off the shores of Maine. Our heroine, Meridith, or Merry-Death as Rolf calls her, is a professor at a nearby collage. She is trying to complete a project started by her late grandfather. A Viking Longboat. Rolf arrives just in time to help. He is fasinated by all the modern conviences but she is still not quite sure that he is telling her the truth about his time travel. The fall in love but he must try and go back in time to complete a task so this causes a rift between them. How this rift is overcome is a ending I wasn't expecting. The secondary character of Mike is wonderful and I liked Thea the niece also. Sandra Hill has a definate winner here. Make sure you have kleenex when you read this.

Meridith was utterly boring and dimwitted and I found no real reason for Rolf to be drawn to her. Nearly 100 pages of prudish resistance gets dull fast. On a good note I did like Sandra's easy writing style. The words flow from the page without the jerkyness of some writters trying to be too poetic.