The Loneliness of the Time Traveller by Erika Rummel
Publisher: Inanna Publications (June 18, 2022)
Category: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Crime, Suspense, Supernatural
Tour Dates September 7-Oct 7, 2022
ISBN: 978-1771338783
Available in Print and ebook, 298 pages
Description Loneliness of the Time Traveller by Erika Rummel
“It is a dreadful thing to be possessed, to be invaded by a spirit woman who commands your body and soul and looks out at the world through your eyes. It happened to me in 1778. Pray it will never happen to you.”
Adele’s diary tells the story of her domination by an incubus Lynne, a serving girl in a London ale house who died a violent death and commandeered Adele’s body for eight years. Can Adele be held responsible for Lynne’s crimes? Will the evil spirit return and renew her tyranny over Adele’s mind?
Lynne has moved on into the 21st century, but the transmigration has left her emotions flat. Lynne is eager to go back to her first life and experience once more the passion she felt for her lover, Jack. To do so, she needs a channel to the past: the manuscript of Adele’s diary, if only she can find it.
A time-slip novel set in contemporary Los Angeles and 18th century London, The Loneliness of the Time Traveller is a story of love, crime, and adventure combined with fantasy, a little bit of Jane Austen-style irony, and a healthy serving of social criticism.
My Thoughts For Loneliness of the Time Traveller by Erika Rummel
Lynne was a serving girl in an ale house, London in 1778. She was in love with Jack, a criminal. Of course, being in love with a criminal can be deadly. Lynne was murdered. However, that was not the end of her story. It was, in fact, just the beginning.
When Lynne died, she found out that she was part of a race of human beings called transmigrants. Transmigrants were able take possession of another persons body when they were weakened or dying. That is where Adele comes into the story.
Adele was a woman who was over come with fever and thought to be dying. However, she woke up after her fever only to find that there is someone else now sharing her body and tried to take control.
Adele fights Lynne at every turn. Eventually Lynne tires of Adele’s resistance and jumps into her next victim. She goes from one victim to the next and eventually is living in the 21st century. However, she misses Jack and thinks that she might be able to make it back to him. You see, Adele lived after Lynne left her body and she wrote a book about the experience. Of course, people did not believe her however, her original manuscript, in the 21st century was treasured. There are copies of the book but Lynne feels that if she can get her hands on Adele’s original writing, she can somehow transport herself back in time, to Jack.
This is a fresh take on time travel for me and I loved it. This is Erika Rummel’s first foray into science fiction but she is an expert in history and historical fiction. I became a fan with her historical fiction! She captures time and place so well that I feel like I am there. This is the case with ‘The Loneliness of the Time Traveller’! From the first page, she grabbed me by the hand and took me to 1778 London and then on to the other lives that Lynne inhabited. Her poetic prose and character development is mesmerising!
I highly recommend ‘The Loneliness of the Time Traveller.’ However, I do advise you to set aside a weekend because it is so hard to put down! If you are a nail biter, you may want to put some thing bitter on your nails or you may chew them down to the quick!
I received the eBook for my honest opinion.
About Erika Rummel
Award winning author, Erika Rummel has taught history at the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
She divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles and has lived in villages in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria.
She has published eight novels and more than a dozen books on social history of the Renaissance. A recipient of international fellowships and literary awards, she was honored in 2018 with a lifetime achievement award by the Renaissance Society of America.
Erika’s Website: http://www.erikarummel.com/
Erika’s Blog: http://rummelsincrediblestories.blogspot.ca/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/historycracks
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