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Title: The Messenger
Subtitle: Mortal Beloved Romance, Book 1
Author: Pamela DuMond
Narrator: Elizabeth Semida
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-26-13
Publisher: Pamela S. DuMond
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
A boy from the past. A girl from the future. Their love could be forever, but their time is running out....
"All the excitement of OUTLANDER if it was a YA series!"
Madeline falls in love with Samuel when she accidentally time travels hundreds of years into the past.
Their relationship is forbidden. Samuel's half Native and Madeline's white. Every rendezvous they share must be secret. If discovered they could be brutally punished.
But Madeline's traveled to the past not only to fall in love, but also to claim her birth right as a Messenger, a soul who can slip through time's fabric, delivering messages that change one life, or save many. Deadly Hunters, dark-souled time travelers, crave her powers and seek to seduce or kill her.
Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?
The Messenger (Mortal Beloved Time Travel Romance, Book 1) was optioned for film/TV.
Continue Madeline and Samuel's saga in....
The Assassin (#2) - on shelves now.
The Seeker publishes in 2016.
"I was a Messenger: I kept the memory of all our encounters, our lives, like a locket that brushes the skin and bones covering my heart. But Samuel was a Healer: He didn't time travel. His kind lived, died, re-incarnated, and he didn't retain memories from his past lives. Every year I landed in required starting our relationship over: from ashes, from scrap.... Every place I journeyed had beauty as well as darkness; all my time-travels were bittersweet." ~~~Madeline.
Members Reviews:
Really Disappointing
[Full disclosure: I requested and received a free ebook through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]
If I had to describe The Messenger in one word it would be âdisappointing.â
The prologue started off promisingly enough, with a girl (obviously the main character) running through the woods in a panic. Okay, that sounds cool; letâs get on with the main event! My excitement dampened throughout the first few chapters because of the pretty stereotypical âmain character who has lost her parent in a horrific accident years agoâ but I soldiered on. When I got to when Madeline time-travelled I got pretty excited because I like time travel stories, which is why I requested this book in the first place. Then that point in the story is where the true disappointment set in.
Itâs hard to enjoy a book when you absolutely cannot stand the main character and I couldnât stand Madeline. I just wanted to reach in and slap her across her loud mouth. Constantly. Okay, sheâs a little disoriented when she travels back in time, Iâll grant her that. But once she gets on her feet and realizes âI better play along with these people or theyâll call me a witch and hang meâ she then proceeds to act like a modern stereotypical American teenager. She blurts out things at inappropriate times, uses modern slang (!) and generally acts like she wants people to start lynching her. I get it, not all teenagers are smart and would instantly adapt to the 1600s. Calling such a transition a culture shock would be quite an understatement. But really? Using the word âwhatevsâ is definitely not going to ease peopleâs suspicions about you. Ugh.
Aside from a narrator that really is Too Stupid To Live, the bookâs premise isnât all that bad.