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Out of Time (2010)

por Monique Martin

Séries: Out of Time (1)

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Mystery, romance and adventure... Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't. Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. When the local kingpin with a dark secret sets his sights on Elizabeth, day to day struggles become a fight for their very lives.… (mais)
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this is very much like a van helsing fanfiction i wrote in 2018 and i'm glad that someone finally finished it because i certainly haven't. ( )
1 vote cthuwu | Jul 28, 2021 |
Well. This book didn't do anything for me. Nothing wrong with it. I just did not connect with the characters or their predicament. I won't be reading the rest in the series. ( )
  CatherineStewart | Mar 23, 2020 |
I love paranormal. I just thought this book dragged on a little too much... I did give it 2 stars because while I did not like the book I do think that Monique Martin is a brilliant writer. This just was not for me. ( )
  Angel.Carter | Aug 11, 2016 |
This is not one star, this is one half a star. And that is a generous half star. This was a Book bub bargain but I still felt duped and that the blurb set an expectation that was far from met. Caveat - I do not like romance novels. Especially those of the Harlequin variety. And I am not a fan, at all, of Fifty Shades of Grey - not because of the subject matter, but because I don't feel the subject matter was handled well. But I digress.

When I chose this title, what I was expecting was a time travel novel with a supernatural/horror element. The first chapter was fine. Introduction of Professor Simon Cross, occult studies and his teaching assistant Elizabeth. An implication that they were attracted to one another and the items that would aid the time travel. This book is 254 pages on my Nook.

For the first 200 pages, literally not figuratively, the story was nothing more than burning flashing eyes, sensuous curvature of her breasts, his hard manhood, her thighs and ass, his ass and back and the sexual tension that drove them to have endless cold showers in a seedy hotel room in the year 1929, to which they had been transported.

At some point, they finally had sex and then the story became about how much they dropped the whole idea of anything they were supposed to be investigating or doing on this time travel trip and ran back to their seedy motel/apartment and had sex. Or when they went to Coney Island for the day, wanting to have sex on the train and the roller coaster and at the movies. And in their job at the speakeasy (he as a piano player, she as a barmaid) watching each other, lusting after each other and dipping into the back room for a quickie or a make out session.

In between the sex, they went to a diner and ate breakfast every day at 1pm and then had more sex with an occasional glass of bootleg scotch or bourbon. Occasionally, one or the other would be assaulted for various reasons and they would clean each others wounds and have sex.

The last 54 pages were the story about the supernatural, crammed in amongst more sex/sexual tension and lots of loose ends, unexplained ideas and half thoughts. The book finally ends with a list of follow up books with these same characters presumably screwing their way through time.

I'm not a prude. Sex is great. Well written sex scenes within the context of a story are great. This is not that. This is Harlequin romance stuff with Fabio on the cover. If you are into that, then this a book for you and hell, maybe it's a 5 star read for those who go in knowing that and wanting that kind of novel.

But this is not a good time travel novel. Both devices (a ring and a watch) that were supposed to be so important to the story were poorly explained and in the case of the ring, barely even covered making it at most an afterthought. Characters would come in with no explanation as to the hows and whys (Simon's grandfather who incidentally had died about 38 years earlier in Chapter 1) and in the last 10 pages, a mysterious council who controlled time travel was mentioned in passing but Simon was too busy worrying that he would never have sex with Elizabeth again to stop for the explanation. I'm not kidding. Father Cavanugh, a priest who seemed to be important in the beginning, dropped in and out...I could list a lot of things but the truth is, the inconsistencies are so many that it's a book in itself.

As for the horror portion. A 1920's era bootlegger/gangster who is a cross between a vampire and demon with yellow eyes. He made himself into this incidentally with Egyptian artifacts that he acquired from King Tuts tomb. How a low level rum runner acquires Tut's treasures 5 years or less after the discovery - well, yet another poorly explained plot point. He ran around ripping the throats out of men, women and children thus controlling the Bowery. Oh yes, lest I forget, the power of love was his undoing. He also spent a lot of time ogling and leering at Elizabeth and there was of course a pissing contest about who would have her.

It has been a long time since I have read a book I would rate so low. I suppose I am a book masochist because I make myself finish any book I start to give it and the author a chance to make me a believer. This one defied all efforts to do so. One for fans of the romance genre and probably needs to be put into a more accurate category so as not to deceive readers as to what it's really about.
1 vote ozzieslim | Feb 21, 2015 |
Beautiful story

Beautiful story

I was pleasantly surprised to find myself worrying about the characters when I had gone too long between spells of reading. The story is quite original and addictive, I think I might buy the next book in the series as a birthday present for myself. ( )
  Mozzie | Jan 15, 2015 |
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Mystery, romance and adventure... Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't. Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. When the local kingpin with a dark secret sets his sights on Elizabeth, day to day struggles become a fight for their very lives.

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