Stars: 3 / 5
Recommendation: I thoroughly enjoyed this pseudo time travel. R. C. Ryan painted a realistic historical picture with her words, with just enough oddball shenanigans to keep me entertained. I could not keep the book down until I finish the novella.
Fallen is the eleventh and final novella written by R. C. Ryan. This is fourth novella, originally published in Down the Rabbit Hole anthology book in September of 2015 in which Nora published her novella with four of her recurring authors – Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas and R. C. Ryan. This was subsequently released as its own. Sadly this is the end of rode for Ryan for now.
In this 100-page novella, R. C. Ryan take our heroine to Scotland, where she falls down a hole and transports herself into early 15th century. There she meets the ancestor of the one she was supposed meet and falls in love with him.
It reminded me close to the novella Legacy by Ruth Ryan Langan in the anthology series The Lost in 2009. Ryan was inspired probably from that novella. It came to me as a surprise that Ruth Ryan Langan and R.C. Ryan are both one and same. She writes mostly historical romance and no wonder this book reflects that. And yes, she is inspired by her own past book to get a tale for this novella.
It was quirky for sure where people turned into animals at every turn for the heroine and comes to know that the Laird is under a curse in the past. For a time our heroine wonder if the knock on her head mess up her mind, or did she really land in another time zone?
One thing made me wonder what happened to Aunt Darda in the present when in the past she is dead? May be a novel would have helped to write her story as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed this pseudo time travel. R. C. Ryan painted a realistic historical picture with her words, with just enough oddball shenanigans to keep me entertained. I could not keep the book down until I finish the novella.
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