Helpful Score: 2
This book was a liitle hard to get into, but once I did, I could not put it down. Nina Beaumont made it easy to put you in the character's roll. Adrienne de Beaufort who is a kind a gentle person gets transported back into time and into the body of Isabella who is a wicked person and her husband Alessandro di Montefiore has to learn to believe in her. A good book.
Helpful Score: 1
From Publishers Weekly
A great deal of research clearly underlies this interesting but overlong historical romance. In Normandy in 1794, Adrienne de Beaufort is being threatened with rape by a local revolutionary leader. She escapes wondrously through a portrait of Isabella di Montefiore, an Italian ancestor of hers whose diaries Adrienne has read, and finds herself inhabiting Isabella's body in Renaissance Siena on the night of Isabella's marriage to Alessandro di Montefiore. The gentle Adrienne knows that Isabella was heartless; she eventually betrayed her husband and helped arrange his murder. But Adrienne falls in love with Alessandro and attempts to change history. Beaumont ( Sapphire Magic ) realistically includes even unpalatable details about the era: Adrienne arrives on the wedding night, when the couple are slated to perform the ritual loss of virginity in front of a crowd. One of Isabella's brothers lusts after her shamelessly, but Adrienne makes an odd bargain with him that they will have intercourse only after she is pregnant with Alessandro's child. Alessandro also participates in a bloody campaign with Cesare Borgia, who is astounded by Isabella's apparent ability to tell the future.
A great deal of research clearly underlies this interesting but overlong historical romance. In Normandy in 1794, Adrienne de Beaufort is being threatened with rape by a local revolutionary leader. She escapes wondrously through a portrait of Isabella di Montefiore, an Italian ancestor of hers whose diaries Adrienne has read, and finds herself inhabiting Isabella's body in Renaissance Siena on the night of Isabella's marriage to Alessandro di Montefiore. The gentle Adrienne knows that Isabella was heartless; she eventually betrayed her husband and helped arrange his murder. But Adrienne falls in love with Alessandro and attempts to change history. Beaumont ( Sapphire Magic ) realistically includes even unpalatable details about the era: Adrienne arrives on the wedding night, when the couple are slated to perform the ritual loss of virginity in front of a crowd. One of Isabella's brothers lusts after her shamelessly, but Adrienne makes an odd bargain with him that they will have intercourse only after she is pregnant with Alessandro's child. Alessandro also participates in a bloody campaign with Cesare Borgia, who is astounded by Isabella's apparent ability to tell the future.
Denell W. (Chitimacha-Princess) reviewed Across Time (Harlequin Historical, No 203) on + 586 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Very exciting! Filled with romance and adventure!
Carol T. (anjeleyes) - reviewed Across Time (Harlequin Historical, No 203) on + 111 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent book. She does some amazing things in this book.
Helpful Score: 1
Thrown through time and into the body of an unsavory bride, how can she survive? Can she stay with the man she has wed and is madly in love with?
