Merlin’s Daughter
Sara Semple Templeton visits her ancestors’ manor in England, both to please her
grandmother by reconnecting with the Semple branch of the family, and to find answers
to the strange dreams she has featuring a mysterious lover/rescuer from the 17th
century.
She arrives in the middle of a reenactment of the battle between the Royalists and
Cromwell’s Parliamentary forces. The man in the role of Cromwell’s general seems
eerily familiar…
Merlin’s Daughter has a decent plot. It has an appealing hero and heroine, both in the
current time-frame and their counterparts in the 17th century. There’s time travel, which
is one of my favorite plot devices. The story even a beautiful wicked witch to provide
conflict.
The story, however, was disjointed at times. A little more backfill or detail was needed
for both the current and the past plots. It may be that this fairly complicated story needed
the room a novel could provide instead of a novella. It would have been nice to know
more about Sara and Justin’s background, to draw the reader in as to why these two
recognized each other from a past life.
There were a few inconsistencies that bothered me as well. For example, when Sara
wakes up in her past life with her modern memory, she doesn’t recognize her
maidservant or her daughter, yet later she remembers her father, her husband and her
life to that point.
Tracy
grandmother by reconnecting with the Semple branch of the family, and to find answers
to the strange dreams she has featuring a mysterious lover/rescuer from the 17th
century.
She arrives in the middle of a reenactment of the battle between the Royalists and
Cromwell’s Parliamentary forces. The man in the role of Cromwell’s general seems
eerily familiar…
Merlin’s Daughter has a decent plot. It has an appealing hero and heroine, both in the
current time-frame and their counterparts in the 17th century. There’s time travel, which
is one of my favorite plot devices. The story even a beautiful wicked witch to provide
conflict.
The story, however, was disjointed at times. A little more backfill or detail was needed
for both the current and the past plots. It may be that this fairly complicated story needed
the room a novel could provide instead of a novella. It would have been nice to know
more about Sara and Justin’s background, to draw the reader in as to why these two
recognized each other from a past life.
There were a few inconsistencies that bothered me as well. For example, when Sara
wakes up in her past life with her modern memory, she doesn’t recognize her
maidservant or her daughter, yet later she remembers her father, her husband and her
life to that point.
Tracy
Author: Patricia Scott
Category: Time Travel
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Rating:
Released: September 2009
Category: Time Travel
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Rating:
Released: September 2009
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