By Sarah Statz Cords
One of my very best friends keeps trying to get me to read Diana Gabaldon’s novel Outlander. She’s convinced I’m going to love it and we’ll be able to talk about it for hours.
What I don’t have the heart to tell her is that I have started it, and I didn’t enjoy it. Doesn’t mean it was a bad book, it just wasn’t for me. So I went looking for other books like it to suggest to my friend when she’s looking for new novels to read, and was surprised to find there’s a whole subgenre of Romance called “Time Travel Romance.”
These titles are defined as romances which “feature protagonists who are transported from one time period to another. The exchange is usually between the present and some time in the past, but other options are acceptable. Conflicts usually follow because of time-based cultural differences, or the fact that the hero and the heroine are from different time periods and must make sacrifices to stay together.”
Do you know someone who loves Diana Gabaldon? Consider these other representative “Time Travel Romance” titles:
Across Forever, by Janice Bennett;
Nick of Time, by Casey Claybourne;
When Lightning Strikes, by Kristin Hannah;
Summer’s Secret, by Sandra Heath; or
The Mirror, by Marlys Millhiser.
Happy time traveling!
Jane,
Thanks for the great tips. I now feel better that I can simply recommend similar titles to my friend, and hopefully avoid the conversation about how I didn’t care for this book she loved (the Gabaldon)!
Readers might also consider Jude Devereaux’s A Knight in Shining Armor and Linda Howard’s Son of the Morning.
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