Speakeasy: A Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas
Publisher: Broadback (April 5, 2022)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction Romance
Tour Dates May 3-June 30
ISBN: 979-8423229016
Available in Print and ebook, 375 pages
Description Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas
In 2019, A West Village Nightclub Singer, Roxie Raines, stumbles through a basement doorway into the past and finds herself in Roaring Twenties New York, with all its dangers, secrets, excitement, and romance.
Roxie Raines lurches through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and time-slips back to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties. While she dazzles the speakeasy crowds with her “modern sound,” she gets trapped in the dangerous web of Frankie Shay, an evil club owner. She struggles to escape his control and return to the basement doorway that sent her to 1925.
When she meets the handsome detective, Jake Kane, it’s love at first sight, but Jake has a secret past, and her own time travel secret makes him suspicious.
Roaring Twenties New York comes alive with flappers, gangsters, romance and speakeasies and Roxie’s stunning rise to stardom could come with the price of losing both the man she loves and her own life.
My Thoughts Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas
It is 2019 and Roxie Raines is a struggling singer in New York City. She has a business degree but wants to sing. She recently sang at a wedding but getting enough work to be able to survive has been very tough. She is even contemplating trying to get a job waiting tables until more steady singing gigs come her way.
Luckily, she has at least gotten a singing gig at Speakeasy for a few nights. The crowd loves her and so does the owner. However, he has booked other singers but told her he will call her as soon as he can book her again. It’s her last night, for now.
There is a homeless man who lives outside Speakeasy and he makes her uneasy but is told he is harmless. However, the place is now closed and Roxie is alone. The guy gets inside and says he is going downstairs and nobody can stop him. She follows him but when he gets to a blue light, he just disappears. She can’t help staring into the light and all of a sudden, she is in the back alley and doesn’t know where she is. She latter finds on that she is in 1920’s New York!
This is when Frankie Shay takes her hostage and locks her in a hotel. Then makes her sing at his club. She loves the idea of singing in a real roaring 20’s club but not for Mr. Shay. She needs to make it down to the basement to find the blue light and go back to her time. Before she finds a way, she meets a very handsome private detective but of course, she doesn’t know if she can trust him.
Elyse Douglas brings the roaring 20’s back to life with gangsters, speakeasies, action, and romance! It has something for just about every book lover. Especially for those who enjoy time travel and historical fiction. This is far from the first-time travel by Douglas and I have read most of the writing couple’s works. ‘Speakeasy’ lives up to them all! This is the first book in their new series and I tend to avoid reading series like this. For me, they just aren’t different enough. Kind of like the same book with different characters. However, that is not the case with Elyse Douglas’s series. I cannot get enough of their time travels and this remains the case with ‘Speakeasy’! I can hardly wait for book two!
Douglas captures the time and place and brings it to life with the characters that inhabit it! We see 1920’s gritty New York city with it’s warts and all. The characters invite you in and won’t let go. It is captivating! I highly recommend it and give it the full 5 stars! ‘Speakeasy’ is not to be missed!
I received the eBook for my honest opinion.
About Elyse Douglas
Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington.
She and her husband, Douglas Pennington, have completed many novels, including The Other Side of Summer, The Summer Letters, The Christmas Eve Series, Time Visitor, Time Change, The Summer Diary, and The Christmas Diary Series.
Website: www.elysedouglas.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/douglaselyse
Facebook: www.facebook.com/elyse.authorsdouglas
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Time-traveling back to the 1920s sounds like an intriguing story!