contemporary story about a master wizard and his protege. involves time travel.
Helpful Score: 3
I loved it. It kept my interest till the end.
Helpful Score: 2
The book is well written, but the characters take too long to get together. It's a light paranormal and as I said it's well written. Subject is kind of drawn out a bit much for my taste.
Helpful Score: 2
love the magical story. interesting read.
Helpful Score: 2
This book is from 1993, back when Kay Hooper was still writing serial romance, and is about 300 pages of time-traveling magic, all to change the environment in which two Wizards live, and make possible their forbidden love.
Helpful Score: 1
Time travel romance. Pretty good book.
Helpful Score: 1
love this book
Not my usual type of read but I did enjoy this book.
Romance with wizards. Two modern day wizards go back in time to change the way male and female wizards relate to each other. Very enjoyable.
This is one of my favorite books, I've read and re-read it time and again. A little too heavy on the sex in a few scenes, but easy to skip and not miss anything. Great concept - keeps you glued till the end.
Interesting take on the Atlantis legend; a little bit of SciFi; not enough in the development of the main characters relationship.
This book was an impulse buy for me in the check out line of the grocery store a few years back. I like magic, I like Seattle--this seemed perfect! Honestly, I didn't even turn the book over to read the back before I bought it. If I had, I would have seen the steamy harlequin romance picture there and probably would have put this right back on the shelf. This is definitely a romance novel and not a fantasy novel. Yes, the main characters are nominally wizards and yes, they do inexplicable things, but I doubt many fans of fantasy would include this novel in that genre. And yes, the story is partially set in Seattle, but nothing happens to distinguish the setting from any other city in the world--I don't think it even rains. The story goes that a male and a female wizard in present day Seattle fall in love, but for some reason it's taboo for male and female wizards to fall in love. So they decide to go back in time to Atlantis before it disappears so that they can attempt to fix whatever happened to cause this taboo and then go back to present day and live happily taboo-free ever after. I'll give the author points for coming up with an elaborate scenario that would somehow induce wizards to not want to marry each other, but she would've racked up a few more points had this scenario been remotely believable. If I try to set aside my hope that this might have some merit as a fantasy novel and just look at it from a purely harlequin romance perspective it still doesn't rank highly, although I have to admit I've never read anything in the genre to which I can compare this. The steamy bits of the story were all between the bad guy and his mindless "brood mares," which, to me at least, was just gross. The main romance was so obvious from the beginning and so poorly developed throughout, it made me wonder why they even bothered with the steamy picture of these two on the back cover. All of this on top of a very weak supporting cast. Although I wasn't completely bored while reading this book, the highest compliment I can bear to give this is that it could've been worse.
if you enjoy a good pharnorml book then this one is grat, you really get to like your chatater and and dislike the villans,you can really get lost in this book.But then again Kay Hooper dose not write a bad book
He taught her a forbidden art.
She taught him a forbidden love.
She taught him a forbidden love.
Publisher's Note
She looked like a ragged, storm-drenched urchin, but from the moment Serena Smyth appeared on his Seattle doorstep, Richard Patrick Merlin recognized the spark behind her green eyes. Serena had crossed a country to find him, guided by her determination to become a master wizard. She knew he could be her teacher--but she never expected the charismatic, seductive power that was Merlin's. Nor had she dreamed of the fire he ignited in her body and soul, a flame that burned even hotter than the powerful talent she possessed but did not yet understand. Their love forbidden by an ancient law, Serena and Richard will take a desperate gamble and travel to a long-lost world to change the history that threatens to separate them. But they risk being torn apart forever, destroyed by a cursed land...and their own fierce desires.
She looked like a ragged, storm-drenched urchin, but from the moment Serena Smyth appeared on his Seattle doorstep, Richard Patrick Merlin recognized the spark behind her green eyes. Serena had crossed a country to find him, guided by her determination to become a master wizard. She knew he could be her teacher--but she never expected the charismatic, seductive power that was Merlin's. Nor had she dreamed of the fire he ignited in her body and soul, a flame that burned even hotter than the powerful talent she possessed but did not yet understand. Their love forbidden by an ancient law, Serena and Richard will take a desperate gamble and travel to a long-lost world to change the history that threatens to separate them. But they risk being torn apart forever, destroyed by a cursed land...and their own fierce desires.
