Genevieve Buchanan is pulled out of her comfortable life when she inexplicably loses her business and discovers she has inherited a castle in England. After a few misgivings she makes the decision to claim this bizarre inheritance that seems to have come out of the blue. Her castle turns out to be haunted by Kendrick de Piaget, a knight from the 13th century.
I've been reading Lynn Kurland's books completely out of order and I started with a few of her time-travel romances. I was a bit skeptical about a love story involving a ghost but Stardust of Yesterday is exactly the same set up as her time-travel novels. Except our hero is a ghost. It's funny, I have no problem suspending disbelief regarding time-travel but falling in love with a ghost is a little much for me. It all comes down to fantasy preference as so far I find the author's books roughly exactly the same. The same sort of chocolate/ ice cream loving heroines, the same bellowing, arrogant yet lovable heroes. The same conflicts that blow over in a few paragraphs. The same sort of bad guys. And the same completely unbelievable virgin innocence from her 20-th century female leads (I've lost count of how many of them are terrified of sleeping with their husbands).
Despite the cookie-cutter stories, some of her novels I truly love. This one, in my opinion, fell a bit flat. Building a dream library for your wife only to become jealous and upset when she wants to read? I don't see how that is attractive in any way. A few other strange plot points that I won't get into for fear of spoiling the book. One particular detail involving ghosts Royce and Nazir really irked me. Basically something VERY IMPORTANT that happens to them towards the end was glossed over so much that I hadn't even realized it occurred and I became confused.
Kendrick had been betrayed and killed by his betrothed and has spent 700 years haunting Seakirk castle, vowing revenge on her descendants. Her last descendant is Genevieve but his plans don't work out the way he had imagined.
Predictable, of course. Enjoyable enough. But I wasn't as in love with the characters as I have been in some of Kurland's other books and the ending was a bit trite.
I've been reading Lynn Kurland's books completely out of order and I started with a few of her time-travel romances. I was a bit skeptical about a love story involving a ghost but Stardust of Yesterday is exactly the same set up as her time-travel novels. Except our hero is a ghost. It's funny, I have no problem suspending disbelief regarding time-travel but falling in love with a ghost is a little much for me. It all comes down to fantasy preference as so far I find the author's books roughly exactly the same. The same sort of chocolate/ ice cream loving heroines, the same bellowing, arrogant yet lovable heroes. The same conflicts that blow over in a few paragraphs. The same sort of bad guys. And the same completely unbelievable virgin innocence from her 20-th century female leads (I've lost count of how many of them are terrified of sleeping with their husbands).
Despite the cookie-cutter stories, some of her novels I truly love. This one, in my opinion, fell a bit flat. Building a dream library for your wife only to become jealous and upset when she wants to read? I don't see how that is attractive in any way. A few other strange plot points that I won't get into for fear of spoiling the book. One particular detail involving ghosts Royce and Nazir really irked me. Basically something VERY IMPORTANT that happens to them towards the end was glossed over so much that I hadn't even realized it occurred and I became confused.
Kendrick had been betrayed and killed by his betrothed and has spent 700 years haunting Seakirk castle, vowing revenge on her descendants. Her last descendant is Genevieve but his plans don't work out the way he had imagined.
Predictable, of course. Enjoyable enough. But I wasn't as in love with the characters as I have been in some of Kurland's other books and the ending was a bit trite.
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