My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A different slant on the characters in England’s troubled past leads to an absorbing, engaging, wild ride through history. The colours, textures and odours come alive under Debra Shiveley Welch’s guidance, as does the sense of the past era because of the author’s personal link with her ancestry. With each advance in the plot, the tension builds and leaves the reader wondering about the eventual fate of the heroine, Bridge. The time-shift, for her, changed from apprehension to a romance with King Henry V111 before her marriage to the love she’d dreamed of, while she nursed the events of the history as she knew it, to prevent her future self being wiped out.
Jumping into various character’s thoughts allows the reader to understand their interaction with Bridge. Omniscient point of view and passive writing works, in this instance, to embroil the reader in a dream-like tumble of past, present and future.
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