Tuesday-July 2, 2013 Satin Sheets Romance Review of The
Journey by John Hedlt
Title: The Journey
Author: John Heldt
Genre: Paranormal romance
Length: 242 pages
Find It On: Amazon
Seattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an
accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and
directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she
followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches
but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a
class reunion. But when Michelle returns to Unionville, Oregon, and joins three
classmates on a spur-of-the-moment tour of an abandoned mansion, she gets more
than she asked for. She enters a mysterious room and is thrown back to 1979.
Distraught and destitute, Michelle finds a job as a
secretary at Unionville High, where she guides her spirited younger self,
Shelly Preston, and childhood friends through their tumultuous senior year.
Along the way, she meets widowed teacher Robert Land and finds the love and
happiness she had always sought. But that happiness is threatened when history
intervenes and Michelle must act quickly to save those she loves from deadly fates.
Filled with humor and heartbreak, THE JOURNEY gives new meaning to friendship,
courage, and commitment as it follows an unfulfilled soul through her second
shot at life.
Angela’s Review:
As an
avid reader of time travel romance, I tend to like to go back in time…way back
in time. In The Journey, the author only
takes us back 31 years, to the heroine’s home town of Unionville, Washington in
the year 1979, when Shelly Preston Richardson is still a senior in high school.
I think
one of the aspects that I loved about this time travel, is the “hindsight is
20/20” perspective. At one time or another, we all have wanted a “do over” in
life. Shelly Richardson gets that chance when she’s hurled back in time, and
can mentor to her former self, as well as former classmates. Her hope is to alter her lifelong regrets of
marrying her high school sweetheart, Scott Richardson.
There
was small level of romance involved in this read. Mr. Heldt did an incredible
job bringing all the characters to life, and the story was well written. The
message within the read, to me, is the real catch here. It’s compelling, riveting, and touching all
at once. I thoroughly enjoyed The Journey by John Heldt and you will too.
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