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If I make it to the 65% mark in a book I usually finish it. The Ruby Brooch will be the exception.

My very first time travel romance was Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. I won't say that ruined me for all others but it did set a bit of a standard for setting up the time travel premise and having the time traveler cope with and adapt to the time to which he or she has traveled. DG does it quite well by having her heroine Claire Randall flung backward to the mid-18th century and having to rely on her wits and common sense to navigate and make a life in the alien and often hostile environment of the Scottish Highlands at a time of great upheaval. DG does a creditable job of taking a fantastic premise and making it believable and absorbing.

Unfortunately, Ms. Logan and the Ruby Brooch cannot claim the same. Instead of her wits, our heroine relies on the trappings of the 21st century: flashlights, multi clip repeating rifles and handguns, modern medicines including IVs and Tylenol, her iPhone, iPod and the straw that broke this readers back: a modern pregnancy test. Her efforts to hide her "other worldliness" was perfunctory at best.

As far a characterization is concerned, I found it to be uneven and often contradictory. Both Kitherina and Cullen, our main protagonists cycle through emotions with alarming unpredictability and often without real explanation or provocation. Some of the secondary characterizations are quite good especially that of Sarah Barrett. I really like her more than Kitherina. As far as Cullen is concerned, he is supposed to be a Highlander (seems to be requisite in time travel novels), but speaks English with very little Scottish influence showing in his speech except when he is engaged sexually with Kitherina. It was infrequent enough to feel affected rather than illustrative of his character.

The great western migration was a fascinating period in American history but very little of the history of that time is incorporated into the story. While DG may occasionally be criticized for her massive research and how it shows up in her book as very detailed description, Ms. Logan might be criticized for not enough. This reader got only the barest sense of what life on the trail was like. My knowledge of U.S. History reminds me that it was a grueling, monotonous, dangerous journey and not enough of that figures into the story.

Bottom line: Given the setting this could have been a terrifically engaging read but is instead, shallow and silly. Give this one a pass.


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The Ruby Brooch Time Travel Romance The Celtic Brooch Series Book 1 edition by Katherine Lowry Logan Romance eBooks Reviews

Can't wait to read the others. A captivating love story of time travel from 1800's to 2012. A fascinating weaving of the two times into a good story. Life in the Oregon Trail is tough but even more so for one from the 21st century. Could I survive?
Today I read the Time Travel Romance “The Ruby Brooch,” by Katherine Lowry Logan. The main character, Kitherina MacKlenna (Kit) survived a car crash on New Years Eve that killed both of her parents as well as her fiance. On this particular day, she received a letter that her father had left for her should something happen to him before he could tell her the tale of her birth himself.

It seems that Kit had been left on Sean MacKlenna’s doorstep, wrapped in a bloody shawl pinned with a ruby brooch. The brooch contained an inscription that when he read it aloud, magically transported Sean back to Independence, Missouri in the year of 1852. It took him some time living in the past before he was able to figure out how to return to his own time. When he returned home, it was with a woman named Mary that he had fallen in love with and married while living in 1852.

Sean and Mary raised Kit as their own, intending to explain everything they could about her origins to her when she was old enough, knowing that someday she would likely want to find her birth family. Kit grew up learning how to do everything that she would need to know in order to survive in the past. Being raised on a highly successful horse ranch was explanation enough for her to learn to ride, to shoot, to camp and cook on a campfire, and anything else that she would someday need to know if she chose to visit 1852 without having to explain to her why she was learning these things.

After doing her own research, Kit decides that she needs to go find out the truth for herself. She packs and loads a wagon with everything she thinks she will need, including a number of modern day medical supplies so that she will be prepared for any emergency she might find herself in (though she is careful to keep anything modern well hidden). As well as the medical supplies, she also hides a modern rifle with extra ammunition as she knows there will be dangers she will likely encounter that might require more than just the period pistol that she also carries.

I was very impressed with the amount of detail in this book. Clearly the author did her research on the time period that her main character visits. She included details such as a reference to the Donner party tragedy that took place around that time on the Oregon Trail. And while she is clearly a very talented writer who made certain that her book was as well edited as it was written, I did have one issue with this book that really disturbed me.

As a romance novel, I expected there to be sex scenes. (Yes there were, and yes, they were detailed enough to make the book inappropriate for younger readers.) I only had an issue with the scene where Kit loses her virginity. That scene was so problematic for me that I don’t even know how to explain my issues with it. I even handed the book to a friend and asked her to read that scene without telling her why. The expressions on her face told me that she found it as poorly done as I did. Oddly, this was the only sex scene that I had an issue with. The others were all very well done. (And yes, there were a good number of other sex scenes in the book. It was a romance novel, after all.)

Over all, I enjoyed this book for both the time travel and the romance aspects of the story. Would I be willing to read other books by this author? Yes, especially if they are as well researched and written as this one. (Although hopefully she does a better job describing any “first experiences” that her female characters may have in those books.)
SPOILERS I love a good time travel story. This one is fairly good. The means of time travel is a ruby brooch, and the history of the brooch is not really explained. But there are other books in this series so maybe it is explained more later. I enjoyed the story and will read the other books, although I am much more interested in the time travel and historical period than the sex. Now here's to the criticism I don't mind a good romance but can do without the play by play description of the sex. You've seen one nipple, you've seen them all. Except for the heroine of course. I'm sure her nipples are the best. Because this heroine is not only a time traveler. She's also an expert horsewoman and jockey, brown belt in karate, an expert in classical music and literature, a trained paramedic, AND she even performed vascular surgery even though she's not a surgeon. Oh yeah and she's a sketch artist too. And beautiful. And rich. So, in other words way over the top. She's Super Woman. And thank goodness she brought a pregnancy test with her on the Oregon trail. Because of course she knew she would need that although her fiancé was dead and she had no romantic prospects to her knowledge.

Now with all that being said, I did enjoy the story and I will try the other two books in the series and see where the brooch takes us next.
If I make it to the 65% mark in a book I usually finish it. The Ruby Brooch will be the exception.

My very first time travel romance was Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. I won't say that ruined me for all others but it did set a bit of a standard for setting up the time travel premise and having the time traveler cope with and adapt to the time to which he or she has traveled. DG does it quite well by having her heroine Claire Randall flung backward to the mid-18th century and having to rely on her wits and common sense to navigate and make a life in the alien and often hostile environment of the Scottish Highlands at a time of great upheaval. DG does a creditable job of taking a fantastic premise and making it believable and absorbing.

Unfortunately, Ms. Logan and the Ruby Brooch cannot claim the same. Instead of her wits, our heroine relies on the trappings of the 21st century flashlights, multi clip repeating rifles and handguns, modern medicines including IVs and Tylenol, her iPhone, iPod and the straw that broke this readers back a modern pregnancy test. Her efforts to hide her "other worldliness" was perfunctory at best.

As far a characterization is concerned, I found it to be uneven and often contradictory. Both Kitherina and Cullen, our main protagonists cycle through emotions with alarming unpredictability and often without real explanation or provocation. Some of the secondary characterizations are quite good especially that of Sarah Barrett. I really like her more than Kitherina. As far as Cullen is concerned, he is supposed to be a Highlander (seems to be requisite in time travel novels), but speaks English with very little Scottish influence showing in his speech except when he is engaged sexually with Kitherina. It was infrequent enough to feel affected rather than illustrative of his character.

The great western migration was a fascinating period in American history but very little of the history of that time is incorporated into the story. While DG may occasionally be criticized for her massive research and how it shows up in her book as very detailed description, Ms. Logan might be criticized for not enough. This reader got only the barest sense of what life on the trail was like. My knowledge of U.S. History reminds me that it was a grueling, monotonous, dangerous journey and not enough of that figures into the story.

Bottom line Given the setting this could have been a terrifically engaging read but is instead, shallow and silly. Give this one a pass.