The Messenger

Mortal Beloved Romance, Book 1

By: Pamela DuMond

Narrated by: Elizabeth Semida

A boy from the past. A girl from the future. Their love could be forever, but their time is running out....

Madeline falls in love with Samuel when she accidentally time travels hundreds of years into the past to a war between the colonists and Native Americans. Their relationship is forbidden.

But Madeline's travels to the past not only to fall in love, but also to claim her birth right as a Messenger, a soul who can slip through time's fabric, delivering messages that change one life, or save many. Deadly hunters, dark-souled time travelers, crave her powers and seek to seduce or kill her. Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?

Praise:

"....by the end, I was getting*a bicep workout from all the fistpumps...." (ForeverYoungAdult)

"This book held me captive...a magical story with lots of twists and turns...." (A Diary of a Book Addict Blog)

©2012 Pamela DuMond (P)2013 Pamela DuMond

Great story, but...

I loved the story but the narrator over pronounces everything to a bizarre extent, and some words just sound weird from her. For instance, the way she pronounces mama is very strange. My kids call me mama, but it's pronounced momma, not maw maw. And Tobias, she pronounces it Toe-bias. Every time. It's just... weird. and mildly annoying. I enjoyed the story very much, just wish they'd chosen a different narrator who could have really done it justice.

Time traveling and Teen Angst

4.5 stars. I listened to audible version. The story is a great thrilling time traveling YA book. It's the book in a series and has the perfect amount of backstory, conflicts, lessons and the ever elusive cliffhanger for a good hook. The 16 year old hits the right tone both in her life and time traveling 300 hundred years earlier. One of the story lines is on soul mates and racism. I appreciated the amount of backstory and unfolding of teenage angst with a decent amount of resolution for a first book in a series. The historical fiction surrounding King Phillips war was well researched.
The narrator herself was doing a good job except the production came off sounding like it was taped in a tin can. I found it disconcerting....every time I felt I could block it out something would happen that made it creep up front again.

I would recommend reading this book.

**I received a free copy of the audiobook in lieu of giving an honest review.

The Messenger

The book was good it was difficult to understand what was going on but it finished well!

The Messenger

This book was so fun to read! I really want to read more from this series.

Time travel blended with young love.

Plot didn't satisfy me. Adventure could have been extended, while cropping more mundane details. Lack-luster delivery. Minimal character distinction.