Time With Norma Jeane: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas


Publisher:  Broadback (January 13, 2020)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Time Slip, Women’s Fiction
Tour Dates March and April, 2020
ISBN: 978-1671646032
Available in Print and ebook, 258 pages

Description Time With Norma Jeane: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

A young woman is hurled back to 1954 to spend a week with Marilyn Monroe.  Together, they embark on their own personal journeys — one a coming-of-age — the other, Marilyn’s journey, a struggle to reconcile with her past and perhaps change the future.

My Thoughts Time With Norma Jeane: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

In 1998 Darla’s mother died and a year later her father remarried and she does not get along with her step mother.  Obviously, her father doesn’t either because they argue all the time. Today is Darla’s 16^th birthday and her dad and step mother are arguing again.   Darla has to get out of the house.  She takes her camera and dog, Sonny and goes for a long walk.  The sun starts to set when she realizes she should get home but the path turns strange and all of a sudden she ends up in 1954. It takes her a while to realize this but when she takes a miss step, still trying to get home, she stumbles and falls down a hill and onto the edge of a road.  A car passing by screeches to a halt and the woman gets out to help.  When Darla realizes it is Marilyn Monroe, she realizes that she is either dreaming or she somehow went back in time.

Marilyn takes her in and they become fast friends.  Darla use to watch Monroe’s movies with her mother and is a huge fan.  She also knows Monroe’s fate and starts to wonder if she can save her.

I loved the way the time travel itself is written.  It is quite imaginative.  Elyse Douglas always writes excellent time travel novels and ‘Time With Norma Jeane’ is no acceptation!  They captured the time and place expertly.  They really made Darla and Monroe come to life and catapulted me back to 1954 with them!  There was a scene with a very young Johnny Cash that I adored! 

This is a book that is impossible to put down.  I cried when it ended because I didn’t want it to ever end.  I would love a sequel.  It probably wouldn’t make sense for a sequel with Marilyn Monroe but Darla could end up in another time with a different person. How about the man in black, himself? The possibilities are endless. I highly recommend ‘Time With Norma Jeane’ and give it 5 stars.

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