Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Wishing Chalice by Sandra Landry ISBN: 0-425-19458-2 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a very neat Time-Travel
Comment: Sandra Landry brings a bright voice to Paranormal Romance with "The Wishing Chalice". A combination of three things - a Chalice, a deep wish and a violent thunderstorm - propels Isabel Herbert back in time. Just not in time, but into another's body. She awakes in another's bed, and in the arms of another's husband - Hunter of Windermere Castle. Handsome Hunter could make the memories of the 21st Century fade fast.
Only, Hunter is puzzled by his wife's sudden change. She was distant from him, especially in bed. Suddenly, they are heating up the covers. However, Hunter also made a wish on his mother's chalice and now believes this is the reason for the change in his wife. But how long will Hunter be granted the dream of a loving wife?
So the chalice, to Isobel, is the means of return to the 21st Century, if she so chooses. But Isobel is seeking it not only for the possible return, but to see into the future, to know if this is where she belongs. Meanwhile Hunter is busy hiding
it hoping it will keep his "new" wife as she is.
This time travel - by having her arrive in another's body instead of just popping back herself - creates a lot of internal conflicts as well as a long of external problems for Isobel. You even get a "guest appearance" of Robert the Bruce in
the novel. So, it's a story that will keep the readers interested to the very end.
Rating: 5
Summary: A quality tale
Comment: Twenty-five year old Isabel currently lives in England at her late grandmother's cottage as she recovers from a miscarriage and a divorce. England is not a strange land for Isabel as her English mother has lived there following the death of her American husband (Isabel's father) three years ago.
Isobel wanders a cemetery filled with the gravestones of her ancestors when the weather turns nasty. She seeks shelter, which Isabel finds in a dilapidated castle. There she notices a beautiful chalice.
Not long afterward, Isobel realizes something is not right in her world. She is no longer amidst ruins, but instead is inside a thriving castle. Stranger yet is the body that her mind resides in as she learns she is married to Hunter and living in Windermere Castle as his wife Detra in 1315. As she adapts to a new body and century (a bit too easily) she falls in love with her spouse who wonders if his wife is beginning to love him though he worries about her sanity.
Fans of time travel romance will enjoy the fine THE WISHING CHALICE though the story line is somewhat typical of the sub-genre as Isabel mentally adapts too easily for a modern day western woman going back to medieval times. Used to freedom of decision, Isabel would have to deal with loss of independence similar to the women trying to obtain any authority in post Taliban Afghanistan. Still the lead couple is a charming duet as Hunter is bewildered by his spouse's seemingly attitude adjustment and the support cast brings to live the early fourteenth century. The sub-genre audience will appreciate Sandra Landry's quality tale.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book!
Comment: Life has wounded Isobel badly; at twenty five she's lost most people she loved, divorced, and had a miscarriage. Though a citizen of two lands, she really has no place. Then, she finds a chalice in some ruins and sees a vision of the most handsome man she's ever laid eyes on with a woman. If only that woman was her, she wishes, and suddenly, it is.
Unfortunately, what she witnessed was a less than perfect scenario. Hunter, the man, was having yet another disagreement with his unwilling wife, Detra. When Detra injures her head and awakens with no memory, apparently, he has no idea what to make of it, only that maybe he has a new chance to win her heart. Isabel would like nothing better than to give him that, with her, but she has no idea if this life is really hers or if she will find herself back in this century. Somehow, she has to find out where she belongs and fix the mistakes Detra left behind.
*** Ms Landry's story is one of great passion. Hunter and Isabel love each other with intense heat, even when they doubt one another. If you enjoy the Outlander series, this one will be a much briefer but equally satisfying tale. ***
Reviewed by Amanda Killgore
 |
Title: Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman ISBN: 0743453085 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman ISBN: 0743453077 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: A Garden in the Rain by Lynn Kurland ISBN: 0425192024 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
 |
Title: Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke ISBN: 0060541741 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
 |
Title: Master of Ecstasy by Nina Bangs ISBN: 0505525577 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
