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< The Legend of Banzai Maguire (2176 Series, Book 1) > < The Scarlet Empress (2176 Series, Book 5) > < The Shadow Runners (2176 Series, Book 3) > < Day of Fire (2176 Series, Book 2) > < The Power Of Two (2176 Series, Book 4) > < The Star Prince (Star Series, Book 2) > Susan Grant

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(Super Reader)

(Nonstop fun thrill ride)

(ok)

(Fighter Pilot Wakes up in the Future and Finds herself in a Dangerous Love Triangle)

(Fast action seat of the pants book)

This is a definite Buck Rogers riff, except that in this case Buck is Bree, or Banzai, if you prefer.

A military pilot of the USA variety gets into trouble with the rest of a patrol, and a few happenings later ends up in suspended animation and wakes up in 2176.

Then you have the Han empire and the UCE - e.g. the yanks or Buck's side, if you prefer.

She has to choose between the suave Han overlord and the somewhat scruffier UCE rebel. No prizes for guessing which, in this case.

Not too bad, but Buck and Wilma in this one are a fair bit less martial than in the original.
The Legend of Banzai Maguire by Susan Grant was a nonstop fun thrill ride.

Bree "Banzai" Maguire is an Air Force pilot whose plane, while flying over North Korea, gets shot down. From there, the action and adventure doesn't stop. Banzai gets captured and wakes up 170 years in the future. This earth of the future has two major world powers, and neither democratic. These futuristic explanations can sometimes be difficult to understand and rationalize. But Grant gives us a reasonable account that's pretty easy to grasp. Banzai soon realizes that a group of freedom fighters has chosen her as their symbol of hope.

The Legend of Banzai Maguire is considered an action-romance book. Though, it's considerably heavier on the science fiction/action side.

This book is just the first of five in the 2176 miniseries. The first and fifth are written by Susan Grant. Unfortunately, this first book leaves you hanging enough to want to know what happens in their fight for freedom, so I'm off to pick up the next in the series!

the story itself was good but there was way too much detail in certain scenes. I found myself skipping pages just to get on with it. The series is great but susan grant lowers it. She just lost my intreast. I would never read any of her books again.
THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE by Susan Grant is the first in a five-book futuristic romance series written by four different authors. The gist of the story is that U.S. air force pilot Bree "Banzai" Maguire is shot down over North Korea, captured, and put into bio-statis. But when she wakes up, she discovers it's 176 years later, and two hunky men - one a prince, the other a treasure hunter - are fighting over possessing her.

I really enjoyed the author's description of the future, as well as her realistic and fascinating tidbits about military life. I also thought the story was engaging and attention-grabbing, especially when the love triangle was thrown in. It was fun reading!

However, a couple things kept me from giving the book 5 stars. For one, the initial set-up (in which Bree and her wingman are shot down and captured) takes 50-plus pages to describe. For another, the "legend" part wasn't clear to me. If the legend was supposed to be about pilots gone missing, then wouldn't the legend be about them both, not just Bree? Also, Bree hadn't done anything before being shot down that merited hero-worship status. Nor did she think to question anyone as to why they were hero worshiping her, which frankly I thought odd. Finally, the ending was too abrupt to satisfy and the epilogue actually detracted me. I'd WANTED to read the next book immediately ... until I read the epilogue. Now I'm not so excited.

Anyway, it's still an interesting book ... but ONLY IF you are prepared to read the rest of the books in the series, because THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE definitely doesn't stand alone as a "happily ever after" romance.

***The "2176 series" includes book #1 THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE by Susan Grant, #2 DAY OF FIRE by Kathleen Nance, #3 THE SHADOW RUNNERS by Liz Maverick, #4 THE POWER OF TWO by Patti O'Shea, and #5 THE SCARLET EMPRESS by Susan Grant.***

I read this book a month ago and just finished reading the second part to this. In "Banzai Maguire" the action rips right through the book, its fast pace wants you itching for more. The romance part is minimal but it sets itself up in the "Scarlett Empress." From getting shot down in present day and moved into the future through cryo, you'll love Susan Grant's creative imagination of the future...nano technology! Maybe she knows something we don't? Read the book, you'll find yourself relating to one of the characters and that's what makes things interesting. This may not be much of a review, but then again I don't want to give it away either!
The first in a series called 2176: five books with tough, kick-butt heroines who help restore democracy to the world and find true love along the way.

Book One: THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE. After US Air Force pilot Bree "Banzai" Maguire is shot down in Korean airspace, she awakens in the year 2176 to a romantic adventure everyone will love.
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< The Legend of Banzai Maguire (2176 Series, Book 1) > < The Scarlet Empress (2176 Series, Book 5) > < The Shadow Runners (2176 Series, Book 3) > < Day of Fire (2176 Series, Book 2) > < The Power Of Two (2176 Series, Book 4) > freaks

< Shadows on the Aegean > < Sunrise on the Mediterranean > < Reflections in the Nile > < A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) > < The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody Mysteries) > < Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12) > Suzanne Frank

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(Best of the Series)

(Pre-History of the World's Favorite Mystery Island)

(Review)

(A Wonderful book reminisent of the Earth's Children Series)

(Fresh Ideas and a New Adventure)

Of all four books in this time traveling series of Chole and Cheftu, this was my personal favorite. I found the story to be a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world with its rituals and customs. Some of the rituals however were a bit too graphic and un-necessary but I don't want to spoil anything by saying too much. Although you don't have to read Reflections in the Nile first, I would suggest that you do only to get a better understanding of the characters and their motivations.
Frank develops a story around the history and legends of Atlantis. She ties together various threads of pre-history and early history, including Egypt, pre-classical Greek civilization and proto-Hebrew culture.

She sets the book in the time of the Great Famine, when the biblical story places Joseph the son of Jacob in Egypt as the Prime Minister. She reckons the pharaoh of that period as Senwosret III, the last king before the Hyksos dynasty established by invaders from the East. Frank weaves a story of cultural and language history that is exciting and stimulating, as well as vivid in bringing out the strange, erotic, profligate and idolatrous character of the early Hellenic peoples.

Her motif is the real society from which the later Olympian myths of the Greek gods developed. This is a fascinating aspect of the story as she portrays how the pagan, superstitious culture of a real, understandable people trying to deal with a precarous natural setting became legendary due to the destruction of their culture by a cataclysmic earthquake and volcanic explosion that destroyed the whole character of the Aegean.

She provides great detail of the technology and social structure to account for the information in Plato's account form ancient times, supplemented by later Roman writers. She provides insights into the character of the ancient Mediterranean world, and its links with the Semitic cultures.

One novel aspect she includes in her tale is the inclusion of Egypt as a vassal of the Empire of Aztlan, which ruled the northern Mediterranean areas associated with Greek culture. Other writers reckon Joseph and the story of the migration of Jacob's family into Egypt occurred in during the Hyksos dynasty, and present evidence that this was facilitated by the Hyksos being Semitic.

She places Atlantis [Aztlan] in the Aegean as the isle known today as Santorini. It appears she is following an earlier very popular view among scholars. A related book, by an archaeological historian, Andrew Collins, purposes an alternative that Atlantis was indeed, as earlier thought, a western island continent on the American side of the Atlantic.

Oh, and for added excitement, in this book she accounts for the ancient tales of Vampirism (porphyria) shared by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, as well as forms of spongiform encephalitis, a true epidemic of the time.

A seredipitous bit of information about this book is that the author is from Dallas, Texas, the area where I stay and call home when I am not in Africa.

It is interesting that Laurel Bliss (New Haven, CT), from the Library Journal (the arm of the Left in Schools and Colleges in the US), should dismiss Frank's book and suggest instead, the books from the lesbian writer Diana Gabaldon... She was not able to explain what she sees as a lack of "more believable settings, suspenseful plots, and plausible, likable characters" in Frank's work. Perhaps, because Library Journal writers in general have a certain distaste to... heterosexual couples? Just check what they say about books that praise homosexuality and are advised to children. I do not take their advise when buying a book in Amazon, but prefer to read regular people, like me, who read the book and express their thoughts!
I first came across this book while I was in my public library one day. I was searching for a good book to read while at the beach. The cover immediatly grabbed my attention and after reading the inside flap, I knew I had to read it. The imagery that was mixed into the stroy was incredible. I became intrigued by the theory which Frank offers as to the mysterious demise of the lost Empire of Atlantis. The detail in the story was exquisite and beautiful and I found myself wanting to be there with Chloe and Cheftu! I reminded me of Jean M. Auel's Earth's Childrens Series and was just as satisfying. I would recomend it to anyone, anywhere, anytime!!!
Suzanne Frank could very well have rested on her laurels after writing the phenomenal tale of the Exodus from Egypt in Reflections in the Nile. Instead, the second book in her trilogy presents a fresh world with just as much wonder and history-questioning theories.

Journey back to Ancient Atlantis, the doomed society of hedonism and scientific advancements. Cheftu and Chloe are forced to take on new struggles as they are faced with a civilization on the brink of collapse. What is their purpose? And will their love survive the temptations of the sensual lifestyle around them?

A wonderful read..a perfect excuse to call in sick, stay home and read.
Time traveler Chloe Kingsley, the heroine of Suzanne Frank's debut hit Reflections in the Nile, thinks she's returning from the splendor and intrigue of ancient Egypt to her artist's life in contemporary Dallas. Instead, she wakes up in ancient Crete as the Cybele Oracle, the seer of a decadent, sensual empire whose fall she foresees in visions of blood and fire. Reunited with her soul mate husband Cheftu, Chloe struggles for survival, both her own and of the magnificent civilization known to myth as Atlantis.
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< Shadows on the Aegean > < Sunrise on the Mediterranean > < Reflections in the Nile > < A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) > < The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody Mysteries) > freaks

< The Sea's Embrace > < King of Sword and Sky (Tairen Soul) > Angela Steed

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Her heart would guide him home. Architectural mastermind Katherine Shaw has left her career in the States behind to follow a passion for antiquity to The London Museum for Art and Archeology. During a museum excursion, a controversial relic is pulled from the ocean depths—a relic containing a mystery to which she is inexplicably joined. His home might claim her life. Born of the old gods, punished and locked away from love, Derrick has crossed seas of time to find Katherine. Chosen as the guardian of his land’s magic, he knows what Katherine doesn’t: herown mysterious origin and the danger she faces because of it. As they travel together in a place only heard of in legends, enemies and darkness surround them—until an unthinkable decision threatens the very magic that has brought them love. Reviews and Other Information: "In her wonderfullymystical tale, THE SEA'S EMBRACE, Angela Steed has created a magical world of love and passion, of danger and deception. With a well drawn cast of colorful and unique characters... I was completely charmed by this story and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys paranormal romance at its pulse pounding best!" -Author M. Jean Pike "Angela Steed has created a brilliant novel that I will hold close to my heart, and keep in my collection, for as long as there is magic and love in the world."-Author Kimberly Adkins "THE SEA'S EMBRACE is a magical tale that sweeps readers away into a world full of magic and wonder. This story whisks readers into a story of love, mysteries, lies, and deceptions... The characters and worlds Angela Steed creates are wonderfully written." Coffee Time Romance "Katherine and Derrick are likable characters and from the beginning I wanted them to succeed in their mission and then go on to live happily-ever-after..." Manic Readers
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< The Sea's Embrace > freaks

< A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest > < A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < What, No Roses? > < Spirited Away (Signet Eclipse) > < Sex and the Psychic Witch (The Triplet Witch Trilogy, Book 1) > Marianne Mancusi

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(This rip roaring romance is a blast in the past!)

(Delightful!)

(time travel romance love story and chick lit at its COOLEST!)

(Entertaining sequel to "A Connecticut fashionista at King Arthur's Court",)

(3 stars)

Note: This story is written in the first person which works surprisingly well in this comical time travel romance!

This story returns to King Arthur's Renaissance Faire in Upstate New York (present day), the starting point for Kat Martin's journey to Camelot in "A Connecticut Fashionista in King Author's Court".

La Style magazine fashion photographer Chrissie Hayward is already irritated with the missing "Park Avenue Princess" when she receives a disturbing (and unbelievable) cell phone call from said coworker.

Kat claims to be calling from the future with her medieval boyfriend Sir Lancelot, and Queen Guinevere (due to the famous misunderstanding which was apparently caused by Kat's need for secrecy) and needs help getting back home.

Chrissie thinks she's being Punk'd especially when she finds Nimue (a time traveling gypsy from Avalon), at Kat's request, and is told she'd have to travel back in time to the point of King Richard's return to England and bring back a drop of blood from the Holy Grail to aid in Kat's return. The gypsy sends her with a message about love and an outlaw bent on revenge.

Chrissie arrives in Sherwood Forest expecting to find Ashton Kutcher and instead who does she find? Could it be? Robin Hood in the flesh?

It is indeed Robin of Loxley but he's far from the legendary version. Yes, he's incredibly handsome but all that business about stealing from the rich and giving to the poor hasn't crossed his mind and he thinks the idea of putting his neck on the line to defend the helpless is just plain crazy. Worse yet he thinks she's a boy!

Fortunately for him Chrissie's fully prepared to pull Robin up by his bootstraps and mold him into the man of the hour. What she isn't prepared for is losing her heart to him. After all she's on a mission and can't afford to be selfish. Then of course there's the fact that her idol thinks she's his latest merry man.

Poor Robin thinks he's gender confused until she finally reveals the truth. Although he is relieved that he's not gone crazy, a woman's betrayal had been responsible for his outlaw status, and another had broken his heart so he had formed a pact with his men that no women would be allowed into their camp. Can Chrissie trust a love that must be kept secret and what will happen when King Richard finally makes his appearance?

As we all know Prince John is just a puppet for the evil Sheriff of Nottingham who is not at all pleased with all this new distribution of wealth. His accomplice however may surprise you.

This story is a hoot especially when Chrissie is drawing on pop culture for their strategies or through some rather extraordinary magic Kat and Chrissie are dishing about their men and predicaments on their cell phones. And don't even ask about the ladies-in-waiting, it's just a little bit too much déjà vu for our erstwhile fashion photographer! For a rip roaring blast to the past I highly recommend A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest.

Reviewed by Leslie Tramposch for PNR Reviews
Chrissie receives a strange phone call from Kat stating she's stuck in the future. Kat insists that Chrissie must speak to the gypsy fortuneteller. However, the gypsy doesn't just zap Kat back to where she belongs, instead the gypsy sends Chrissie back in time.

Chrissie makes the best of the situation. She's thrilled to come face to face with the notorious Robin Hood, until she realizes he isn't even remotely similar to the hero she's read about in books.

However, Chrissie is determined to shape Robin into the man he was meant to be.

Ms. Mancusi's Robin Hood tale at times had me laughing aloud with the hilarious banter between Robin and Chrissie. Her heroine is a strong take-charge woman who cleverly urges Robin and his Merry Men to be all they can be. The hero is strong and honorable, very likable and not afraid to consider Chrissie's suggestions. This is a delightful fast-paced chick-lit tale!

i've read lots of time travel romances and rarely read chick lit, but i must say, the blending of these 2 elements by the author is unique, fresh, and wonderful!!

i won't summarize the story since the summaries are all here. Suffice it to say that i read the author's "fashionista" story (which was almost as good as this sequel) and the author blending the heroine going back in time in trouble with the fact that she can use the cel phone to communicate with her friend to discuss her man troubles (like in chicklit stories) is a nice supporting touch.

And i was surprised how the author turned this classic robin hood tale on its head with the edited addition of maid marion. How does the author resolve Robin's love of Maid Marion and his love for the heroine? well when you read about maid marion you know why!

and the author as everyone says puts robin hood at first in the not_so_heroic light when he first refuses to save a boy who would be punished bodily by the Sheriff for stealing food because his family's starving. And only the heroine stepping in to help moves Robin. But Robin improves when the heroine shows up and she encourages him to fight for the poor more and more and the poor look up to Robin and his merry men. And this sounds more realistic, esp. when Robin bans women from his merry band because of maid marion rejecting him once and another woman betraying them, so when he and Chrissie, the heroine, become intimate, he tells her sadly that he can't admit their relationship to the others because of his ban otherwise they'll turn to another leader, but this really turns off Chrissie as it would to any woman who wants her relationship acknowledged.

And i like the fact the author didn't make the heroine perfect. she's not a stupid innocent virgin and she becomes furious and reacts physically (smashes their love nest) when she thinks robin is still in love with maid marion just like a real you or me would have reacted even though we find out later robin has let go of marion and his love has grown for Chrissie.

and mancusi's books are SOOOO funny, always referring to teen angst, modern fashions/celebrities/situations with modern humor, so that we can understand exactly how we'd react in modern terms if we were in her shoes. in contrast to fashionista, hoboken's heroine is definitely a take charge type. You see this in the beginning when Robin thinks she's a man(because of how she's dressed) and challenges her to knock him off a log in water if she doesn't want to pay him his "tax". The heroine manages to use her gymnastics athleticism to knock him off and so he's surprised but liking her (as him).

DEFINITELY GREAT READING MATERIAL worthy of an award.

This highly entertaining romp is the sequel to Mancusi's equally amusing novel, "A Connecticut fashionista at King Arthur's Court."

Ever since Mark Twain wrote the brilliant comedy "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court" other writers and Hollywood have mined a rich seam of humour from copying the idea of someone from the writer's own time sent back to Camelot.

Some of these have been very good. One of my favourite comic songs is "Busy Doing nothing" which comes from the first film version of Mark Twain's book. Others have been less inspiring. (For instance the film "Black Knight" starts well but gets increasingly tiresome.)

Marianne Mancusi's two books are definately amongst the more amusing of the genre.

Both books starts in upstate New York in the early 21st century at a mock medieval event called "King Arthur's Fayre". The editor of top women's magazine "La Style" has sent an assoicate fashion editor and a photographer to the Fayre to research an article about how medieval fashions are influencing the latest styles.

They are a mismatched pair. The heroine of the first book, Katherine (Kat) Jones, is the associate fashion editor, a Park Avenue Princess straight out of "Sex and the City" complete with the $400 Manolo Blahnik shoes and killer Armani couture which she insists on wearing despite the fact that "King Arthur's Fayre" is being held in a muddy field.

The heroine and first person narrator of this book is the photographer, Christine (Chrissie) Hayward, who is of course the Hoboken hippie of the title. Unlike Kat she is enjoying King Arthur's Fayre - or would have been if Kat would stop bitching.

Kat manages to annoy a gypsy fortune teller who threatens to cast a spell on her. Nobody else takes this seriously, but a few minutes later Kat is watching a simulated joust when the lance breaks, and a fragment flies towards her and strikes Kat on the forehead, knocking her out. She recovers in Camelot ...

Chrissie wasn't looking in Kat's direction at that moment, and this book opens with her searching for the absent partner she assumes has skived off. Then her mobile rings ...

Spoiler alert: it's Kat on the phone, having found a way to speak from another time, and if you read this second book as far as the call, it gives away the surprise ending of the first book. If you are minded to try these books, I strongly recommend that you read "A Connecticut Fashionista" first and then tackle "A Hoboken Hipster" if you like it.

What one can say without spoiling either book is that Kat needs help to get home: she asks Chrissie to go back to the gypsy (who is actually a sorceress from Arthur's time in disguise) to ask for assistance. At first Chrissie thinks Kat is playing a ludicrous joke or has gone off her rocker, but she goes to find the gypsy. Next thing she knows, Chrissie is sent back to the time of King Richard the Lion-hearted to find an item necessary for Kat's return.

Unfortunately she arrives while King Richard is still being held for ransom in a dungeon in Austria. Prince John and the wicked sheriff of Nottingham are running the country. Then Chrissie meets Robin of Locksley.

Robin is not remotely as Chrissie has imagined him, but nevertheless she finds herself falling deeply in love with him. There are three barriers in the way of her doing anything about this. The first is that she is due to return to her own time. The second is that he think's Chrissie is a boy. The third is Maid Marion ...

The style in which the story is told is a delight, and it is a funny, entertaining romp. Strongly recommended.
A cell phone plea from her friend, if she can be called that, sends Chrissie Hayward to a Ren Faire fortune teller. Her friend, Kat, is stranded in the twenty-second century with Lancelot and Queen Guinevere (From A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court), and needs Chrissie to contact Nimue and get a rescue going. Nimue is more than willing, but she needs special ingredients, among them a drop of blood from the Holy Grail, which was last seen in the days of King Richard the Lionheart after he brought the cup of Christ back from the Holy Land. So, Chrissie finds herself sent back in time to Sherwood Forest where she encounters Robin Hood the first rattle out of the hat. On the plus side, he's more handsome than some of the actors who have played him. On the minus side, he needs to get a clue about what he's supposed to be doing. He and the Merry Men have not gone in for the robbing the rich to give to the poor; they just got the first part right. He also thinks Chrissie is Chris, an eunoch, thanks to her lean build and pants. Since women are banned from the camp, that's an advantage, to a degree. Chrissie is able to become one of the Merry Men and get them on fire to be the heroes she has heard legends about, but that only makes life more dangerous. She has no idea when Richard will return from the Holy Land and Chrissie needs to stay alive and keep her secret from the Merry Men, though Robin did find out and a romance was begun, until the King gets back. Then, she can rescue Kat and go back to the future. But, does she want to?

*** Despite the somewhat annoying use of the first person, present tense narration, this is a fun read. The characters, mostly, are somewhat as expected, especially after they wake up to their destiny, but there are subtle differences that make them Ms. Mancusi's own renditions. If you enjoyed the original Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court or Back to the Future, you'll like this. ***

Amanda Killgore
If Chrissie Hayward knew that morning she'd be going back in time to rescue her crazy coworker Kat, she'd have worn better shoes. Doubly so if she'd expected to meet her true love. According to the mysterious gypsy, Chrissie was the "gentle soul who would tame an outlaw's thirst for revenge" -- aka the real Robin Hood. So how come the guy was such a dud?

LOST...IN SHERWOOD FOREST?

No, Robin of Locksley was no Prince Charming. And the part about robbing the rich to feed the poor? He didn't get the memo. In fact, all the guy seemed to do was mope. (And he and his not-so-merry men thought Chrissie was a boy. Sure, she wasn't stacked, but still!) Nonetheless, he was loyal and brave and handsome as sin. If Chrissie coudl just get him with the program, she could right his wagon and get these boyz'n the wood to be heroes of the realm instead of twerps in tights. Only then could this prince of thieves become king of her heart.
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< A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest > < A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < What, No Roses? > < Spirited Away (Signet Eclipse) > freaks

< Frankly, My Dear (Timeswept) > < Sweeter Savage Love > < Desperado (Timeswept) > < Love Me Tender (Leisure Romance) > < Hot&Heavy > < Truly, Madly Viking (Time of Your Life) > Sandra Hill

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(i love the hero)

(frankly not worth reading)

(Supermodel Goes Back in Time to Pre-Civil War Louisiana Bayou)

(Gone with the Wind, it ain't)

(Best Yet !!)

the book was a good read. it wasn't the best but i thought it was worth reading and re-reading a few more times. James Baptiste is definitely a hero that i fell in love with. i think that even if everything about the book was a nightmare, i'd still fall for James Baptiste. he's a hero with a lot of baggage and needs saving and that's where the heroine comes in. altho he is very competent too. i didn't mind the heroine, i mean i liked her even tho she did seem like a hypocrite at times. nothing big but she's all about women depending less on their looks but throughout the book she has makeup on. other than stuff like that i liked her.

i think everything from the sub-characters to the main plot could have been better and more developed...but the overall is still ok enough for me. in no way is this a superb book. i mean everything could have been done better but...it turned out as it is.

this is actually one of my favorite book of Sandra Hill. mainly because of James Baptiste (the hero). i simply just loved him. he's nothing at all like Rhett Butler tho. newho, so i gave this 3.5 stars because of James Baptiste and 0.5 stars for everything else that i enjoyed.

worth reading once for some....but a few more times for me.
The heroine gets on the bad side of a voudine and is sent by curse back into the pre civil war south where she is mistaken for a Quadroon, a light skinned woman of color.

The plot is boring even dragging. The characters are two dimensional. And when it comes to period this book does the job badly. The authress should have done better research. It gives the reader hardly any feel of romance and nothing of what life for quadroons was like. Not a feel of the Quadroon balls where they saught white protectors among the southern elite to become their concubines nor the slave market where they were sold as Fancy Girls. It does not even give us anything of the relationships of these women even though their exoticness gave them the reputatation of being the most beutiful women of the south.

Better reading would be The Quadroon by Mayne Reid written before the civil war or Old Creole Days by George W. Cable written after the civil war.
So far, I've read three romances by Sandra Hill, all which I found funny and endearing. However, this book, FRANKLY, MY DEAR, is my least favorite of the three, mostly because I thought it cheesy. Entertaining, but cheesy.

Inspired by "Gone with the Wind," FRANKLY, MY DEAR is a time-travel in which a supermodel from 1996 named Selene is swept back in time to New Orleans circa 1845 by a voodoo curse. At first, she is mistaken for a quadroon (and then a runaway slave), but is saved by handsome James Baptiste, a plantation owner who grudgingly employs her as the governess for his young soon, Etienne. James is no Rhett Butler; at first, he is unbelievably overbearing and rude, but the two quickly fall in love, despite their differences and the fact that Selene intends to return to her own time.

What I enjoyed most about this book was its humor and the repartee between James and Selene, especially at the beginning, when she'd just arrived in the past and was trying to adjust to a backwards culture.

What I enjoyed least was its predictability (the identity of the murderous ghost was pretty much given away at the beginning) and its easy-outs. Almost from the start, Selene learns how to return to her own time, so there is no conflict there. She is also sent back in time with her make-up kit (rather convienently, I might add), which provides the answers to everything.

There were also some characterization issues that bugged me a bit. Etienne seemed too mature for a 5-year old, unrealistically so. Also, there were some things that James did that bothered me immensely, including the scene with the prostitute. Unlike Selene, I was not turned on by this. Turned off, is more like it. Yuck.

Anyway, for all its faults, I still found the book entertaining and easy to read. I also enjoyed the descriptions of life in the Louisiana bayou, and enjoyed being taken back in time to a land of voodoo, mint juleps, and snarly alligators. It sure beats reading about the ton.

Oh, I also learned that there are two time-travel romances related to this one by Sandra Hill. SWEETER SAVAGE LOVE is about Etienne all grown-up and DESPERADO is about the mysterious couple that appears in Selene and James' epilogue.

I read this one over last summer, and I was very enthusiastic to do so. I wanted, so badly, to like this book. But it just wasn't to be.

The things that stuck out in my mind as things that highly annoyed me, was:

1. The heroine. Never have I read about any heroine crying anywhere nearly as much as she does. She is truly the 'watering pot' of the book! She'd have guts to get things done one minute,
then be sobbing wildly about something, some slight, the next!
Drove me bonkers!

2. The hero. Yuck! I never really felt he cared that much about her, really. I just felt like he took her for granted and
took advantage of her upon occassion. I had no really caring for this man at all. And to think, she wasted all those tears on this jerk!

Well, there you have it. Though the time travel aspect was interesting (the reason this book gets 2 stars¬ 1), it just was not enough to save this stinker.

Superior time travels:

The Bushwacked Groom by Eugenia Riley (or any time travel by her)

A Perfect Love by Sandra Landry

Enchanted Time by Amy Elizabeth Saunders

I'm not sure what the wide appeal of Sandra Hill's books is suppossed to be, but if the others are anything like this one,
why bother?

1-10 scale: 3.0 find something worthwhile to do like watching the grass grow. It would be more productive!
Stars: Only 2, and that's only because it wasn't totally without merit, but mostly!
I loved this book and have read it over 3 times.. Sandra Hill knows how to add the right mixture of sassy sayings and fun in her books. I will never get tired of her books she is an Auto- buy for me.. I highly recommend this book to all who love a great time travel and alot of laughs..
Tiring of the pretentious world of high fashion, model Selene heads to New Orleans for one last job and is transported back in time to the Old South, where she meets beguiling planter James Baptiste. Original.
Sandra Hill is an author to watch. Her innovative romances are some of the hottest and sassiest on the market. And her hilariously funny time-travel romances are cutting edge; they're always just a little too racy, raunchy, wild, and funny. If you haven't readGone with the Windor seen the movie, you will still laugh out loud at this half take-off, half homage to one of America's greatest love stories. Sandra Selente ("Selene") is a supermodel whose favorite movie of all time isGone with the Wind.When she finds herself transported back in time to the old South, Selene's only point of reference is the movie. She quickly learns she is not cut out to be a Southern belle. When James Baptiste rescues her, she declares him to be her very own Rhett--until she discovers he has a penchant for blondes. Thank goodness that for Selene "tomorrow is another day."
Rerations
< Frankly, My Dear (Timeswept) > < Sweeter Savage Love > < Desperado (Timeswept) > < Love Me Tender (Leisure Romance) > < Hot&Heavy > freaks

< Feather in the Wind (Leisure Historical Romance) > < The Angel&the Outlaw (Leisure Historical Romance) > < The Spirit Path > < Under a Prairie Moon (Leisure historical romance) > < Cheyenne Surrender (Leisure historical romance) > < Beneath a Midnight Moon > Madeline Baker

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One more notch in Madeline's 'Great Novel Post'. This was a Super read.
I highly recommend this book Feather in the Wind (Leisure Historical Romance) for all Historical Romance lovers.
Good from beginning to end. I like my romances a bit more sensual with longer love scenes, but Madeline Baker's writing makes up for it.
Everything the other reviewers said is true about this book. Even though it took be 3 days to finish it, I didn't want to put it down&see it end.

I don't know weather there is a story for Black Winds uncle, that preceded this one, but if there is i'd love to read that one too.

This is the 1st. timetravel by Madeline but it won't be my last. I am just about to start "Under a Praire moon"&shall be searching for her other stories.

I love anything written by Madeline Baker and this book is no exception. It was Romantic, exciting and just plain sexy. I loved the hero and heroine they were so in love even time couldn't keep them apart.
Praying for the strength to guide his people, Native American leader Black Wind sees the image of a st