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This book was great. The voice actor reading it was pleasant to listen to and brought great depth to the book. I look forward to the next book.

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West: History Interrupted

This is a really fun book. It has lots of action and adventure as well as mystery and danger. Josie thinks Carter is joking about time travel, because it's only on tv right? Then she wakes up in the past. Of course their is a lot to get used to. And she is not sure who to trust including Carter and Taylor who is the local sheriff. The book has some great characters in it. And their is a few surprises at the end. One you may see coming. But the rest.... I felt a bit like Josie I was a bit sad at the end. This was a fast listen it really draws you in and you don't want to stop until it's done. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out on audio! Great series with nice narration!

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I was intrigued when I read the blurb, I love time travel stories and I think it is a good start to the series. Not sure I would call it a romance, more like fantasy/scifi, even though it has a little bit of romance in it. Interesting mix of suspense, drama, old west & scifi. Josie made for a pretty good heroine the way she survived being thrown back into time despite having al the obstacles thrown in her way. I wish Taylor was not erased from history though. Lost one star because of the major cliffhanger ending and no warning.
My first time listening to Ms. Yves and she has a pleasant voice, well-suited for Josie's character. With more voice variations, more emotive presentation and better paragraph breaks would have been a 5-star listen for me. The style used would have been perfect for a more sedate story.

I received this free review copy audio book at my request and this review is voluntary. 

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A facinating lesson of (a new) history

Well, well, well! What do we have here? A different kind of story. If the other day I was mentioning in my other reviews that history has a way of repeating itself, now we have a different approach. Our main character is trying to change it. Funny thing is she has no idea how she ended up in all this.

Even since the beginning, I found myself having the same reaction as Josie. I mean, are you kidding me? Really ? Did that apparently (not) drunk guy sent me back in time ?! Now what? Now we have a great story, a true adventure and a novel that will keep you reading (listening, in my case) till late in night!

I loved the story, I loved how the author has built the action. It has a sort of equilibrium. Like everything happens exactly at the right point, so it does not become boring at all. And it has a little bit of mystery, a little bit of intrigue, love and just the perfect combination of everything else that make it a successful book.

Josie is one amazing heroine. She is definitely not a superhero. Her wits and strong character are her best attributes and she uses them so good. She is mature, no childlike behavior, no spoiled princess. She finds herself in a more than unusual situation and acts quickly. She has my appreciation of how she acted in some scenes. Yes, she has been the center of attention in my case as I put myself in her shoes. If I were to be alone in a strange place…. Uf!

The narration was fantastic as well. It went well in line with the characters and I think Lillian Yves has the perfect voice for a character such as Josie. She does a good job in voice acting for the male characters and for me it was easy to decipher who was who.

All in all, 5 stars and my thanks to Audibookworm and the author and narrator for yet another great book! Lovely, and I do wish you give it a try. It’s fascinating!

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Lizzy Ford. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

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The wild west, mixed with a dangerous romance.

4.5 Roses

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The wild west, mixed with a dangerous romance. What's not to love?

Josie is a fairly typical modern college student, finding her way through a world a bit too big for her. When she fills out a random survey at a theme shop in a tourist town - more interested in the gift card prize than the actual survey - she never suspects it will change not only her life, but quite possibly, history itself. At least, the person hosting the "giveaway" survey hopes she will, and in an almost cruel way, zaps her back to a time where women barely have a voice, and tensions are high between people of social standing, and skin color.

She's surrounded by people she doesn't know if she can trust, in a time she isn't sure how to navigate, aside from what she learned in history classes when she was young. It's a culture shock like none other, and against all odds, she survives things several women before her didn't. She's special, and she's going to change history all right - just not in the way anyone expected.

I loved the overall story, characters, and plot. I've always been a sucker for time travel stories, and grew up on a healthy diet of old paperback westerns, and any western movie ever made. This story felt hand-written for me, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Josie was fantastic, and her struggle to fit into the 1840s seemed realistic and relatable. The companions and enemies she finds in the few short days she has to stop a war, make her head spin, and cause her to question everything she thought she knew.

The narration was done well, and the inflections in the multitude of different characters was done very well. I wasn't a huge fan of it in the first few chapters, but before long, was drawn in easily. The narrator seems like a good fit for the story, and her pace flowed well for the setting.

My only complaint with this audiobook, and the reason for a half rose taken away, is fairly minor. In several places during the story, the author repeats herself a bit too much. For example, when a character is trying to figure something out, or the author is basically explaining why a character decided to do something, the explanations overlap and go around in circles a few too many times. Unlike with a book, I wasn't able to skip a few paragraphs to get past it, unsure of where the story would pick back up. It wasn't a major complaint though, and not worth a whole rose being removed. The story overall seemed well done, and put together without holes and gaps left unanswered. I would definitely be interested in reading/listening to any more books she ends up adding to the series, and am thankful to have had the opportunity to enjoy this one.

I would definitely recommend this book, either in it's written form, or the audiobook version.

*I was given a complimentary audiobook copy of this book, from the author via Audiobookworm Promotions, to listen to in exchange for an honest review.

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loved the book the narrator was good she produced character and personality into audio version

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AWESOME

I thoroughly enjoyed this book,couldn't put this book down.Listened to it in one sitting.This was my first time with this author and narrator thought they both did a excellent job.Will definitely continue with the series.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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OMG, OMG… OMG!

This book was so, so, so good! I want to hurry up and write this review so I can go and download East book to end this awesome Siri’s! I can only hope there is a north and east south. I am so in love with this book I wish I could give it 10+ stars but S5 is the limit I give it five glowing stars! The narrator is awesome the writing is awesome the book is freaking awesome!

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An amazing travel to the Old West

During a visit to an Old West tourist attraction, Josie is requested by a man named Carter to fill in a survey in exchange for some money to help her pay her studies. Later on both go out for a drink and Carter tells her about the need to change the past in order to prevent a great massacre. Half drunk, Josie accepts, just to suddenly find herself appear in the 1940s. Why does everybody seem to know her? Will she have what it takes to change the course of history?

Despite the fact that this book is categorized as Romance, it is not, or it is not its main genre. This is about time travel, not very sci-fy but more in a fantastic way, like Doctor Who, show that is mentioned several times throughout the book, as one of Josie's favorites. What I mean about more fantastic is that there is not even a mere attempt to explain anything of what happens in a scientific way, and I almost laughed at the fact that Josie was going to get a vaccine that would cover any past, present, and future disease known to man. It is kind of ludicrous, but this is one of the concessions we usually give to the Time Travel genre, especially when it is inspired by Doctor Who.

Josie's real mission is unknown to her and us, and Lizzy Ford built up the intrigue in a very smart way, giving us pieces here and there, while also tricking us to think what she wanted. This has worked very well, and this was a book I couldn't put down, since I needed to know why some things were like they were presented and how we could be deceived.

Even though I think Josie was a bit too naive at the beginning, I was able to connect to her later on. The story is written in first person from her point of view, and as she is the only character, apart from Carter, from our time, it was easy to follow her train of thought and understand her motivations. Apart from her, the rest of characters were not very developed, but this did not stop some of them from being very interesting. I especially liked the two Indian twins.

I said that this was not a Romance book, but there is romance in it. I am not sure about the need of it, and for me it felt a bit forced, but I guess the romance and sex scenes will be appreciated by those who expect some romance in this book. Somehow I wanted to know Taylor better, and I think the ending would have felt a bit stronger for me if he would have been a bit more developed.

What did not work very well for me was Lillian Yves narration. Yves gave a clear and emotive narration, but I found some little issues that were distracting when put together. First, Yves tended to introduce pauses in the middle of sentences, like reading in slow bursts, and then the pauses between sentences felt like artificially shortened (probably during the editing part). This caused that some pauses between sentences were even shorter than the pauses within sentences, which gave the narration a robotic feel. If it was not for the expressive narration by Yves, it would have sounded exactly like Text-To-Speech. I find it weird that nobody has mentioned this on any review, since this bothered me from beginning to end. Another minor issue was that all voices sounded similar to the ear, and this coupled with the previous issue, made following dialogs difficult, since the shortened pauses between sentences and paragraphs did not make it clear when a character stopped talking and another one started.

All in all, it was a wonderful audiobook, and the tension and the intrigue were so well built that I couldn't stop listening. I am looking forward to the next in the series.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Lizzy Ford. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

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Fantastic time travel story!

Amazing storyline and plot in this 21st century time travel story. Deception, misconception, and romance all wrapped up with sorrow and Sci-fi. Definitely looking forward to book two!

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