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Lost Mata Hari Ring: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas: Review

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 29, 2018
Posted in Books Read in 2018 • Historical Fiction  | Tagged With: , | 3 Comments

Lost Mata Hari Ring: Time Travel Novel by Elyse DouglasLost Mata Hari Ring: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas


Publisher:  Broadback (May 1, 2018)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance
Tour dates: May-July, 2018
ISBN: 978-1513634326
Available in Print and ebook, 370 pages

The Lost Mata Hari Ring

Up-and-coming actress, Trace Rutland, has had nightmares about a tragic past ever since she was a little girl.  She struggles with her everyday life, finally seeking help from a hypnotherapist.

While under hypnosis, she inadvertently experiences a past life in Paris, in 1916, during the First World War.

Later, while visiting a wealthy man’s private Mata Hari collection, Trace is drawn to a glittering ring, once worn by the convicted spy.

Trace is enthralled.  When she’s alone, she slips the ring on and is swiftly hurled into the past.  There, she must face herself as she was in the past, while struggling to change the course of her destiny.

When she meets the handsome Edward Kenyon Bishop, a World War I British flying ace, she falls in love.  She is soon swept away into a journey of suspicion and treachery, and must fight for her life.

Can she survive the past?  Can she return to the present?  Can true love endure for all time?

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My Thoughts Lost Mata Hari Ring: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas


Since she was little, actress, Trace Rutland has had nightmares about a disturbing past event in history.  She has seen many psychologists but the nightmare still comes back night after night.  She has tried hypnotherapy but has never been able to be hypnotized.  That is until she tried one more psychotherapist.

What she discovers is shocking to both herself and the therapist.  In fact, he doesn’t feel comfortable seeing her again.  He doesn’t believe in past lives but yet, that is what was reveled in the session.

After this therapy session, Trace visits and man with a private Mata Hari collection.  She is drawn to the ring right away.  She tried the ring on and it ends up being a portal to time travel to the time of Mata Hari.    She ends up in a house where Mata Hari is staying and meet a handsome British flying ace from world war one, Edward Kenyon Bishop.  Thus starts her dangerous adventure and romance.

I read ‘Mata Hari’s Last Dance’ by Michelle Moran.  I really enjoyed it but enjoyed ‘The Lost Mata Hari Ring’ even more.  The two books give a unique perspective on Mata Hari and what it was like in WWI Europe.  I do recommend both.  However, if you want a fun time travel version, read ‘The Lost Mata Hari Ring’.  It is much shorter and has less detailed history but still well researched.

I loved the character development and especially liked the relationship between Nonnie, Mata Hari’s daughter and Trace. Though it was short, Trace was able to have a relationship with Nonnie that Mata Hari was unable to have. The book grabbed me during Traces hypnosis and didn’t let go until the end.  The scenes during WWI were heart pounding and mesmerizing.  I felt like I was there, as Trace, myself.  I also like the follow up when Trace returns to present day U.S.A.
I think ‘The Lost Mata Hari Ring’ would make an excellent movie and hope some producer out there buys the rights and follows through!  I adored this book and know it will stick with me. 

5/5

I received the ebook version for my honest review.

About Elyse DouglasElyse Douglas


Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the husband and wife writing team of Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse began writing poems and short stories at an early age and graduated with a degree in English Literature. Douglas began writing novels in college, while studying music at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.  He traveled the world as a professional pianist for many years.  He has also worked as a copywriter and corporate manager.

Some of Elyse Douglas’ novels include: The Christmas Eve Letter (A Time Travel Novel), Christmas for Juliet, The Summer Letters, The Christmas Diary, and The Summer Diary. They live in New York City.

Website: www.elysedouglas.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/douglaselyse
Facebook: www.facebook.com/elyse.authorsdouglas

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Jan 18

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Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 2, 2018
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Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer LaamLost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


Thanks Staci Burt of  St. Martin’s Press, I am giving away one print copy of Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam.

Description Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


At the age of sixteen, Natalya Goncharova is stunningly beautiful and intellectually curious. But while she finds joy in French translations and a history of Russian poetry, her family is more concerned with her marriage prospects. It is only fitting that during the Christmas of 1828 at her first public ball in her hometown of Moscow she attracts the romantic attention of Russia’s most lauded rebel poet: Alexander Pushkin. 

Enchanted at first sight, Natalya is already a devoted reader of Alexander’s serialized novel in verse, Evgeny Onegin. The most recently published chapter ends in a duel, and she is dying to learn what happens next. Finding herself deeply attracted to Alexander’s intensity and joie de vivre, Natalya hopes to see him again as soon as possible.

What follows is a courtship and later marriage full of equal parts passion and domestic bliss but also destructive jealousies. When vicious court gossip leads to Alexander dying from injuries earned defending his honor as well as Natalya’s in a duel, Natalya finds herself reviled for her alleged role in his death. With beautiful writing and understanding, Jennifer Laam, and her compelling new novel, The Lost Season of Love and Snow, help Natalya tell her side of the story—the story of her greatest love and her inner struggle to create a fulfilling life despite the dangerous intrigues of a glamorous imperial Court.

Praise Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


“An evocative story of love and power, Jennifer Laam draws the reader deep into the heart of a resilient woman’s struggle to hold her own in Imperial Russian society. Natalya Pushkina, a woman once adored, ridiculed, and since forgotten, is brought to life in this vibrant, skillfully woven tale.” – Serena Burdick, author of Girl in the Afternoon

“A captivating tale in which Natalya Pushkin is vividly imagined. The dramatic complexities of her personality, and of Imperial Russian society, are cleverly portrayed in this sensitive and skillfully written novel. Sure to enchant those who are already fans of Jennifer Laam, and fans of historical fiction.” – Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home

“This hauntingly elegant tale of love and tragedy in Imperial Russia, as seen through the eyes of Pushkin’s much-reviled wife, sweeps us up into the fatal glamour and deceptions of an era, the peril of choices, and one woman’s resilient struggle to discover herself.” – C.W. Gortner, author of The Vatican Princess

“The Lost Season of Love and Snow deftly weaves historical facts with rich, deep emotion, taking us inside the unforgettable love story between young beauty Natalya Goncharova and famed poet Alexander Pushkin. Jennifer Laam delivers a compelling portrait of a woman unfairly condemned not just for her own desires, but for the adoration of powerful men she could neither reject nor control. Laam makes love itself both the hero and the villain of this powerful story, delicately exploring its joys, delights and tensions as well as its tragic consequences.” – Greer Macallister, USA Today bestselling author of The Magician’s Lie and Girl in Disguise

About Jennifer Laam


Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam

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JENNIFER LAAM is the author of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar and The Tsarina’s Legacy. She earned her master’s degree in History from Oakland University in Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She has lived in Los Angeles and the suburbs of Detroit, traveled in Russia and Europe, and worked in education and non-profit development. She currently resides in Northern California.

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Aug 17

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Mapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 8, 2017
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Mapmaker's Daughter by Katherine Nouri HughesMapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes


Thanks to Deb Zipf of Meryl Moss Media, Inc., I am giving away one print copy of TheMapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes .

Description of Mapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes


A woman who wielded extraordinary authority over a vast realm, who influenced the course of astronomy, and who – uniquely among women – upheld an empire’s most important law, has been almost lost to history – until now.

Queen Mother Nurbanu, one of the first of these powerful women, is determined to understand how her bond with the greatest of all Ottoman sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent, has shaped her destiny – not only as the wife of his successor, but as the appointed enforcer of one of the Empire’s most crucial and shocking laws.

Nurbanu spares nothing as she dissects the desires and motives that have propelled and harmed her; as she considers her role as devoted and manipulative mother; as she reckons her relations with the women of the Harem; and, as she details the fate of the most sophisticated observatory in the world. Nurbanu sets out to “see” the causes and effects of her loves and choices, and she succeeds by means of unflinching candor—right up to the last shattering revelation.

Praise for Mapmaker’s Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes


“A fascinating evocation of the major players of the Ottoman renaissance.”  – Kirkus

“The Mapmaker’s Daughter is an immersive, beautifully-woven narrative that dissects the paradoxes of female power and the particularities of the 16th century Ottoman Empire.” – Dr. Amanda Foreman, author of ‘Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire’ and  ‘A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War.’

“When the fiction is good, the history is usually distorted, and on the rare occasions when the history is good, the fiction is usually less interesting than the straight historical narrative. This novel is a remarkable exception…part history, part fiction, it is enthralling.” – Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University

About Katherine Nouri HughesMapmaker's Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes


KATHERINE NOURI HUGHES, Iraqi-Irish by birth, attended Princeton University where she received a Masters Degree in Near Eastern Studies and where she serves on that department’s advisory council. She has published two books on k-12 education, was a communications executive in the for-profit and non-profit sectors, and serves on the boards of the American University in Cairo, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and WNET/13, the public television station.

She lives in Princeton, New Jersey and has two daughters and two grandchildren. The Mapmaker’s Daughter is her first novel.

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