A Chance in Time – Ruth Ann Nordin – 3*

I actually feel a little guilty of only giving this book 3*, perhaps I should have given it 4* as I would definately re-read this book.

This book is based in history and involves time travel, only in this story the time-traveller is a man.  Most other books I have read with time-travel as a theme involve women travelling, although I guess the ultimate time-travellers are Dr Who and that guy from Back to the Future.

Anyway back to a Chance in Time; Penelope (the main character) was widowed about a year previously and had been living off the small farm that her and her husband owned.  She was a mail-bride and left a wealthy family to pursue a marriage for love, or rather a marriage where her being unable to have children would be an issue.

One day, whilst going to the near-by town to purchase the goods she needs, she finds a man laying on the side of the track.  He is unconscious.  With somewhat more strength than youd imagine she would possess, she manages to secure the man to her horse and take him back to her cottage.  She nurses him back to health and in the process falls in love with him.  He also, reluctantly, falls in love with her; however he knows he must leave her.

Distraught by the knowledge of his leaving, he does what he can to improve the farm so she can survive.  He vows to time-travel, find some gold and bring it back to her, leaving it somewhere she will find it.

You could really sense the feelings growing between Penelope and the man – it was a gentle and very moving progression of emotion under circumsatnces that had been forced on them both. 

I found myself caught up in their emotions and really felt their pain and love for each other.

To find out whether he succeeds in returning with gold, leaving her for good for his own time or remaining with her dispite everything you’ll just have to read the book for yourself and find out.

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Arousing Love – M.H. Strom 4*

This was a refreshing look at the relationship between 2 young people.  It showed the struggles of Christian youth to honour their faith at the same time as starting to explore the feelings that come with being in a relationship.

Parts of it were almost like an attack on the church as we know it, not an unwarranted attack though, one comment that really stands out to me was “Jesus wouldn’t be welcome in most churches as he would be too radical”.  It’s a sad time that the doctrines of the church have, in a lot of cases, moved so far from the messages of love and tolerance that Jesus taught.

Both young people involved in this story tested God’s will for their lives and whether they were meant to be together, asking for signs to confirm God’s plans.  When these signs were given to them, in ways that they did not expect, they became betrothed to each other.  It was an interesting insight in how marriage was historically looked at (the joining of 2 people) instead of the ceremonies that have grown up around the idea of marriage.