Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have great respect for authors, as they put so much time and energy into such a great feat as writing books. Therefore, it is with great regret that I have to say that this book leaves much to be desired. I believe it had great prospects, as the idea of a modern, troubled woman traveling back in time with her toddler, only to meet up with a great historic figure - well, this really grabbed me. But the writing was so challenging. I managed to get 2/3 of the way through, and then I couldn't take it anymore. This book had a great start. In fact, I read the sample first, became quite intrigued, and then downloaded the book. But disappointment set in about 1/3 of the way through. The dialogue was painful. There was no flow - it was inconsistent, confusing, and sometimes just made no sense. There were so many characters, with poor explanation of who they were - I had to look up the actual history on the internet just to figure out what the heck was happening. The chapters alternate between Meg's perspective, then Llywelyn's - which would have been interesting, except that Llywelyn's "thoughts" were laced with modern-day colloquialisms, much like Meg's- so I wasn't sure who was speaking. Llywelyn speaks of going to his "office." Did medieval princes really call it an "office?" Then later, when trying to correct Meg's way of addressing him, he states, "....if you can just tack `my lord' on there at the end...." Isn't that modern-day phrasing? I got so confused I wasn't sure if it was Meg or Llywelyn who traveled back in time. Realism - there was none. I would expect if a 13th century Welsh prince came across a 1990's automobile sinking into a swamp with a woman at the wheel and a child in a car seat, he probably would not have figured out how to release both the seatbelt AND the child's car-seat belt in seconds flat, much less figure out how to open the doors. Wouldn't he have bashed the windows in and whipped out his knife to cut the belt? The story started to lose me here.... Character development was nonexistent. I kept re-reading passages, thinking I had missed something. Characters just seemed to change direction at the drop of a hat, and I had no idea what their motives were. The dialogue was not helpful here- in fact, it only made it more confusing. There were several typos and grammatical errors. I guess for $0.99 I have come to expect that, but that only makes me think that there was no care for how accurate the writing was. This only confirmed my disappointment with the weird dialogue, the lack of character development, and the unrealistic meshing of 13th and 20th century perspectives. I am a fan of time travel stories, but I have read far better.