A woman gets ditched by her shitty boyfriend while on vacation in England, and while she’s crying over him in an old church, a nobleman from 400 years in the past is pulled through time by her tears. She helps him find out who betrayed him to the queen all those years ago and caused his wrongful execution. They fall in love. He gets sucked back in time. She cries a lot. Again. Then *she* gets zapped back in time to save him because he’d still been executed even after discovering at least part of the truth in the future. They fall in love again. She gets pulled back to the future. She cries a lot. Again.

Ugh. This 80s romance novel has not aged well, although, to be honest, bad writing is pretty much always bad writing. Plot holes and contradictions don’t breed in the pages over time. It’s just…not good. However, if you squint, tilt your head just right, and replace the two MCs with Nandor and Guillermo from What We Do in the Shadows, it almost kind of works. ( )

This is the first romance book I ever read! It will always be myfavorite ( )

How many books do you remember a week after you've finished reading it?

I read this book when it was first released, and I read it again when it was re-released. Dougless is such a charming underdog, the youngest child trying not to be the family clown. She feels like she can't do anything right, and in spite of landing a doctor (who is going to propose "any day") she discovers he isn't her best choice in husband material, but he's her chance to appear to have done the right thing with her family. Until she meets her knight in shining armor, and he shows her how a man should treat a lady.

One of the first time travel romance novels, this story stuck with me for all these years, and even in re-reading it (I must have been mixing up two books, they don't BOTH travel through time, do they?), I still loved the way Dougless uses a waterfall as a shower, and I remembered Nicholas's trip to the dentist. I love the way Nicholas is fascinated by modern-day inventions. Particularly endearing is the ending... Because love endures the test of time. ( )

Abandonada por un novio cruel, Dougless Montgomery llora sobre una fría estatua en una iglesia inglesa. De repente, como en respuesta a sus plegarias, aparece un hombre extraordinario.
Él era Lord Nicholas Stafford, Conde de Thornwyck y según su lápida murió en 1564. Dougless sabía que él era poco menos que un milagro; un hombre que no intentaría cambiarla, que la encontraba fascinante tal y como era ella.
A pesar de todo, no podía imaginar lo fuertes que eran las cadenas que los ataban ni la aventura magnífica en que se embarcarían.

The ending gutted me. I have never cried so much because of a romance novel. ( )