Title : Heroes for Ghosts by Jackie North
Series : Love Across Times book 1
Genre(s) : Contemporary gay romance, time travel romance
Publication Date : June 13th 2018
My Rating(s) : 5 Stars
Buy links : Amazon
Soulmates across time. A sacrifice that could keep them apart forever.
In 2018, near the village of Ornes, France, Devon works on his master's thesis in history as he fantasizes about meeting a WWI American Doughboy.
In 1916, during the Battle of Ornes, Stanley is a young soldier facing the horrors of the battlefield.
Mourning the death of his friends from enemy fire, Stanley volunteers to bring the message for retreat so he can save everyone else in his battalion. While on his mission, mustard gas surrounds Stanley and though he thinks he is dying, he finds himself in a peaceful green meadow where he literally trips over Devon.
Devon doesn't believe Stanley is who he says he is, a soldier from WWI. But a powerful attraction grows between them, and if Stanley is truly a visitor from the past, then he is Devon's dream come true. The problem is, Stanley's soul wants to finish his mission, and time keeps yanking him back to relive his fateful last morning over and over, even as his heart and body long to stay with Devon.
Will Stanley have to choose between Devon and saving his battalion? Will time betray their love, leaving each alone?
A male/male time travel romance, complete with hurt/comfort, French coffee, warm blankets, fireplace kisses, the angst of separation, and true love across time.
I need to see this story made into a movie someday.
The story was endearing, beautiful and heartwarming with a bit angst.
I was caught by the blurb and it’s beautiful cover. The premise of the story was very intriguing and this book successfully caught me since the first page.
The writing was beautiful and I cannot put it down since I started it. The story absolutely consuming and curious me even more. I want to know what will happen next, but at the same time…I really didn’t want the story to end.
For a story that only happened in hours count (for Stanley, or in days count in Devon's time), the story felt not too rush at all. Instead everything that happen feels so right on it portion. The instant connections between Devon and Stanley can strongly felt since they first met, and each time Stanley disappear, it anxious and worried me…
Will he come back this time? Or…never…
This book kinda reminds me of Bill Murray’s movie Groundhog Day (1993) and Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour’s movie Somewhere in Time (1989). Phil Connors (Bill Murray) found himself woke up each day and repeating what he had done that day over and over again until he finally find the reason on how he’d been trapped in ‘time loop'. Yes, he had a ‘mission’ need to finish before everything back to ‘normal’ again. And like Phil, Stanley also have a mission of his own to finish before the time loop end, to save his friends on the battlefield. If a coin can make Richard Collier (Christopher Reeves) time traveling to the past, then it’s fair enough for Stanley to traveling to the future by mustard gas, right?
And all that happen between Devon and Stanley was beautifully written by the author.
Heroes for Ghost is a debut time-travel novel by a new author, Jackie North. For a debut novel, I think the author nailed it very well. This book was the first of the Love Across Times series, and really can’t wait for the next book in this series!
Recommended!
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