![]() I think about him in the days between our dates. Like in this passage, where Mandy thinks back on one of their encounters: I tend to assume that kind of temporal and character development is primarily the work of plot and pacing and structure- but in this book, it’s the work of prose, too. By the time you reach the end, you’ve traversed months of timeline and know and care about both characters deeply (despite almost never having seen the hero as “himself” until the end). ![]() But what I kept coming back to with this book is how it fit so much into a one-hour read. There are multiple passages I could have chosen that show off the spare lyricism of the prose. Yet when she tries to draw her lover out of the shadows, Mandy has a fight on her hands…to convince him there’s a place for their fantasy love in the light of day.Ĭover image and blurb from the author’s website. And a soul connection she never expected. She doesn’t want romance to complicate her life, but Mandy’s monthly role-playing dates with her stranger on a train-each to a different time period-become the erotic escape she desperately needs. ![]() But the invitation she receives from a handsome man who won’t share his real name promises an adventure-and a chance to pretend she’s someone else for a few hours. All she wants is a distraction from the drudgery of single parenthood and full-time work. ![]() When Mandy joins an online dating service, she keeps her expectations low. ![]()
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