Book Review: A Timely Revolution: (Book One) by Tempie W. Wade

A Timely Revolution: (The Timely Revolution Series Book One)

by Tempie W. Wade

December 9, 2018
ASIN: B07L8LGX5B 

ISBN: 9780960025701
Waking up in the year 1765, next to a mysterious black horse, Maggie Bishop has no idea what cosmic force shook her up and spit her back out 253 years in the past, and she certainly has no clue on how to get back to her life in 2018. What she does know is that she needs to find a way to survive in the not-so-modern and very dangerous world that she has been unexpectedly thrust into.

With the American Revolutionary War on the horizon, Maggie uses her knowledge of the future to create a new life with the sole intent of steering clear of trouble while keeping her loved ones safe from the devastation of war. However, when a simple twist of fate intervenes, Maggie finds herself not only owed a debt by General George Washington, but also caught up in the early stages of the Culper Spy Ring. Torn between protecting the man that she loves, but knows she can never have, and saving the life of her best friend, both on opposite sides of the conflict, Maggie must find a way to walk a fine line between the two opposing armies, or risk changing everything that history says is meant to be.

Take a stroll down the streets of the past while being introduced to a few of its real-life citizens during the time of the American Revolution in a tale where fantasy and history are intertwined into a story that you will not soon forget.
Maggie Bishop sits out on the beach in North Carolina thinking about her new engagement to Brad, and if she really wants to get married. She goes to the water’s edge and finds an ornate bottle, that has a strange Scottish poem inside. Clutching the bottle, she heads back to the room she is sharing with Brad. Dizziness and pain overcome her until she blacks out. Maggie wakes up next to a mysterious black horse. She was on the beach with no familiar buildings around, just beach and sea. She soon learns it is no longer in 2018, it is 1765.

If you enjoyed Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, then readers will enjoy this novel (first in a series), A Timely Revolution, which like Outlander, has a heroine from the future who magically ends up in the past, during the time a historical war happens. Real historical figures mesh with fictional, plus romance. Ms. Wade handles historical facts and figures well, adding her spin in this book. I cannot wait for the second novel in the series and what happens to Maggie next.

I give A Timely Revolution 5 Revolutionary sheep.

Reviewed by Pamela K. Kinney

About the Author:
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Tempie W. Wade is a lifelong resident of Virginia and currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has a love of history, old architecture, and travel. The author likes to incorporate historically accurate events with a touch of fantasy, in hopes that her readers will become interested enough to do their own research into the past.

The Timely Revolution Book Series is continuous work of historical fantasy/fiction, that includes actual people and events during the American Revolutionary War in and around Colonial Williamsburg.

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Double Book Review: Silver Tongue by AshleyRose Sullivan

Silver Tongue

by AshleyRose Sullivan

Pages: 229
The Colonies lost the Revolutionary War. Now it's 1839 and the North American continent is divided into three territories: New Britannia, Nueva Espana, and Nouvelle France where seventeen-year-old Claire Poissant lives.

Claire has a magical way with words—literally. But a mystical power of persuasion isn't the only thing that makes her different. Half-French and half-Indian, Claire doesn't feel at home in either world. Maybe that's why she's bonded so tightly with her fellow outcasts and best friends: Phileas, a young man whose towering intellect and sexuality have always made him the target of bullies, and Sam, a descendant of George Washington who shares the disgraced general's terrible, secret curse.

But when Sam's family is murdered, these bonds are tested and Claire's special ability is strained to its limits as the three hunt the men responsible into dangerous lands. Along the way they cross paths with P.T. Barnum, William Frankenstein and other characters from both history and fantasy as they learn the hard way that man is often the most horrific monster and that growing up sometimes means learning to let go of the things you hold most dear.

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Denise B's Review

The United States of America never was because the Colonies lost the Revolutionary War and the North American continent was divided into three territories. Claire is half French and half Indian and has a magical way with her words. She has two best friends who do not fit in any better than she does, Phileas and Sam.

Claire, Phileas and Sam find themselves on a journey when Sam’s aunt is murdered and Sam is left for dead. All three carry secrets they’d rather not share with the one another but due to circumstances beyond their control they start dreaming together. As the trio travels they encounter many interesting people along the way that takes a new twist on old stories. This story was unique and magical, bringing together Indian legends, werewolves and the monster of Frankenstein. A good read that I hope continues into more books.

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Pamela Kinney's Review

A cross between steampunk and alternate history, Silver Tongue begins in the French owned Nouvelle France. The American Revolution was never won by the American rebels and besides France, the British still owns the original thirteen colonies and Spain is in control of Nueva Espana. This would be alternate history, but it goes beyond that in the paranormal and science fiction with one of three friends who grew up in the same town, Claire, Phileas, and Sam, being a werewolf, Sam is cursed since birth with being able to shift to a wolf. Not only that, but he is a descendent of George Washington, where the curse came from. Claire can talk people into doing what she wants, long as she is looking into their eyes or touching them. As for Phileas, he is ordinary, interested in science and a gay son from a rich Nouvelle France family. Sam’s aunt is murdered one night and Sam was shot too, as he is thought dead, by a group of men part of group that are out to obliterate all of those cursed with the wolf But Sam is not dead, and afterwards, Claire and Phileas discover the secret am has kept from them. . The three friends take off to hunt down the murderers. Along the way they meet P.T. Barnum, and most of all, a being based off another famous classic monster, Frankenstein’s monster.

A good read, if Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte got together and had a love child, Silver Tongue would be the result.

I give Silver Tongue 4 sheep. 

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Guest Post: D. B. Jackson/David B. Coe (The Dead Man's Reach book tour) + giveaway

“An Encounter with Sephira Pryce,”

by David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson

David: I’m delighted to be here at I Smell Sheep for this installment in my virtual tour. My name is David B. Coe, and I’m currently promoting two books. The first, DEAD MAN’S REACH, is the fourth novel in my Thieftaker Chronicles, a historical urban fantasy, set in pre-Revolutionary Boston, which I write for Tor Books under the name D.B. Jackson. It came out last week. The second, HIS FATHER’S EYES, is the second volume in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a contemporary urban fantasy that I write for Baen Books under my own name. It will be released next week on August 4th. I wanted to talk to you today about--

Sephira Pryce: Boring!

David: Excuse me?

SP: I said, boring. As in, you are boring these poor people to tears. It’s hard to believe that you could have such a powerfully soporific effect on these unfortunate souls. You’ve barely started, and already they’re nodding off. A few more paragraphs and you might actually kill someone.

David: You’re Sephira Pryce, the villain from the Thieftaker novels.

SP: Villain! You have some nerve! I’m the heroine of the series.

David: No, Ethan Kaille is the hero. You’re his nemesis.

SP: Potato, po-tah-to. 

David: Well, no--

SP: Your little fairy tales would be nothing without me. The scenes I’m in sparkle, like sunlight on the waters on Boston Harbour. Even when I’m not actually in a particular passage, the mere mention of my name, a hint at my possible ire, the threat of my retribution, infuses all that you write. Without me, your novels would be as flat and dull as this post would have been had I left you to your devices. It’s hard to believe, really. I mean, you created me, so apparently you have some small capacity for writing words of interest. And yet the rest of what you do is so . . . lacking.

David: I’m not certain that’s true.
SP: I’m reasonably certain I didn’t ask. I came to rescue you from yourself. You want to sell books, don’t you? Of course you do. So you have two choices: You can pick up where you left off and hope that putting these people to sleep somehow translates to sales. Or you can take advantage of my fortuitous arrival and rely upon my charm, my wit, my intellect, and, of course, my stunning physical beauty, to help you interest readers in that nonsense you write about Ethan and me. Choose. Quickly. I’m a busy woman. If you don’t wish to avail yourself of my services, I am sure there are others who will.

David: Fine. Why don’t you tell our audience a bit about yourself.

SP: Is that really necessary? Haven’t they all heard of me already?

David: It’s possible that some have not.

SP: Oh! The poor dears! Well then, yes. By all means. [Clearing throat] My name is Sephira Pryce, and I am the foremost thieftaker in the city of Boston. Some know me as the Empress of the South End, but you and our guests here today may call me Miss Pryce.

David: You are a contemporary of Samuel Adams, are you not?

SP: Yes, I am. But he is hardly someone of interest to those reading this piece. He solves no crimes, he has not fought his way up through the streets of this town to a position of power and respect. He is the son of a politician who has not managed to rise above his father’s middling station.

David: But his actions on behalf of liberty, and his role in forming the Sons of Liberty--

SP: Yes, yes, yes. He has his little cause. What is it they call themselves? Patriots? [Laughs] Really, I don’t think their actions will ever amount to much. Their movement is a trifle and little more. I hardly expect that the king fears this rabble. Ask me something else.

David: All right. Tell me about your rivalry with Ethan Kaille.

SP: I have no rivals. Kaille is a nuisance, but I hardly think he warrants consideration as a rival to me.

David: He has survived in Boston as a . . . a competitor for some time now.

SP: He has been fortunate, and I have allowed him to survive. Thus far. I am too filled with the milk of human kindness for my own good. I could have rid the city of him years ago, but I have tolerated his presence here out of charity. And let’s not forget his confounding witchery, which has saved him from his own carelessness more often than I care to say. If not for his spells, and his luck, no one would ever think to compare him to me.

David: And yet, he has solved mysteries that you could not.

SP: Only by dint of his magick! I have nothing more to say on the matter! I do not wish to speak of Kaille, nor do I wish to have his name spoken again in my presence!

David: All right. Tell us what you think of the British occupation of Boston, which has been in effect now for well more than a year.

SP: It is a necessity. Adams and his ruffians may not amount to much, but they have been responsible for too much mischief to be ignored. They have destroyed property, disrupted commerce, harassed merchants of unimpeachable character simply because the men refuse to go along with Adams’ non-importation agreements. These rebels like to complain about the military presence, but they have no one to blame for it but themselves. Your questions grow tiresome. Don’t you wish to know more about me?

David: I do believe my readers would be interested to know how you have enjoyed so much success in a city -- and an era -- so dominated by men.

SP: Ah! At last, a fine question! The answer is quite simple, really. Men are fools. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy the company of some. And I’ll admit that Kaille, despite his annoying habit of getting in my way time and again, is a most compelling specimen. But generally speaking men expect women to behave a certain way, and when we don’t they become quite flummoxed. I confound their expectations. With my beauty and my charm, I distract and disarm them, and with my brilliance and ruthlessness I surprise and ultimately overwhelm them. Most don’t stand a chance against me. Kaille is more clever than the vast majority, and he is not easily intimidated. But he is the exception, and I told you already I didn’t wish to speak of him anymore.

David: I didn’t bring him up. You did.

SP: Well, you tricked me into it. All this talk of men and their predilections. You knew it would lead back to Kaille eventually.

David: Actually I didn’t--

SP: I am done here. You had your chance. I could have helped you, but you would rather write your stories about Kaille. So be it. Farewell.

David: That was Sephira Pryce, the rival and nemesis of Ethan Kaille, my thieftaking, conjuring hero in the Thieftaker Chronicles. The newest book in the series, DEAD MAN’S REACH, has just been released by Tor Books. And watch as well for HIS FATHER’S EYES, book two of The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, due out next week from Baen Books.

Thanks to the great people at I Smell Sheep for hosting me!

Dead Man's Reach (Thieftaker Chronicles #4)
by D.B. Jackson

Hardcover, 368 pages
Published July 21st 2015 by Tor Book

Boston, 1770. The city is a powder keg as tensions between would-be rebels and loyalist Tories approach a breaking point. One man is willing to light the match to ensure that he has his revenge.

The presence of the British Regulars has made thieftaking a hard business to be in. Ethan Kaille has to resort to taking jobs that he would otherwise pass up, namely protecting the shops of Tories from Patriot mobs. When one British loyalist takes things too far and accidentally kills a young boy, even Ethan reconsiders his line of work. Even more troubling is the fact that instances of violence in the city are increasing, and Ethan often finds himself at the center of the trouble.

Ethan discovers that some enemies don't stay buried… and will stop at nothing to ruin Ethan's life. Even if that means risking the lives of everyone in Boston, including the people that Ethan loves most.

About the Author:

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DB Jackson websiteDavid B. Coe/D.B. Jackson is the award-winning author of eighteen fantasy novels. Under the name D.B. Jackson, he writes the Thieftaker Chronicles, a historical urban fantasy from Tor Books that includes Thieftaker, Thieves’ Quarry, A Plunder of Souls, and, the newest volume, Dead Man’s Reach, which was released on July 21. Under his own name, he writes The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a contemporary urban fantasy from Baen Books. The first volume, Spell Blind, debuted in January 2015. The newest book in the series, His Father’s Eyes, comes out on August 4. He lives on the Cumberland Plateau with his wife and two daughters. They’re all smarter and prettier than he is, but they keep him around because he makes a mean vegetarian fajita. When he’s not writing he likes to hike, play guitar, and stalk the perfect image with his camera.