Actually, it was. Bars would make money off of the beer and food was cheap. So there'd be the fixin's to make your own sandwich or whatever as long as you were drinking beer.
Time And Again is a pretty interesting read. It's science fiction - barely - but he goes from modern times to 1882. This was one of the things he talks about in the book.
i really, truly can't say enough about how awful this book is. and it's a series. it has almost a five star review on amazon. i read the back blurb and was so effing flabbergasted that i thought i just had to read it, it couldn't be that bad (like so bad it's good... or a good, old fashioned hate-read). and i was right, it isn't that bad. it's so, so much worse.
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in case anyone is interested, this is the description on the back:
New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill continues her sexy Deadly Angels series, as a Viking vangel’s otherworldly mission pairs him with a beautiful chef who whets his thousand-year-old appetite . . .
Once guilty of the deadly sin of gluttony, thousand-year-old Viking vampire angel Cnut Sigurdsson is now a lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine. His new side-job? No biggie: just ridding the world of a threat called ISIS while keeping the evil Lucipires (demon vampires) at bay. So when chef Andrea Stewart hires him to rescue her sister from a cult recruiting terrorists at a Montana dude ranch, vangel turns cowboy. Yeehaw!
The too-tempting mortal insists on accompanying him, surprising Cnut with her bravery at every turn. But with terrorists stalking the ranch in demonoid form, Cnut teletransports Andrea and himself out of danger—accidentally into the tenth-century Norselands. Suddenly, they have to find their way back to the future to save her family and the world . . . and to satisfy their insatiable attraction.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062356542/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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It’s definitely up to interpretation, to be fair I don’t even think Jeff Lynne knows the full story.
That being said, I think (as well as a few other people on this sub) that the best interpretation of the story is Brian Paone’s book Yours Truly, 2095. Here’s a link if you wanna check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0991309162/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IO4xDbQD3B843
How nuclear do you want to go? I've never actually read this book but reading the back cover literally made me decide to start writing again (because if THAT got published...)
Read the back. Please.
https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Wore-Fangs-Deadly-Angels/dp/0062356542
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I misremembered, she was a chef, not a cupcake baker. And the Viking Vampire Angel also was a cowbow, briefly.
in short. I'm a big fan of genre fiction. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, urban paranormal romance, all that jazz. Game of Thrones as I was reading it basically billed itself as this Fantasy Epic. Now I went into this before the show started.. the summer before so the buzz I had was just from book readers who regarded it as a beloved series. I read it and I kept waiting for the fantastic elements to appear. It opened with these special dire wolves after a preamble scene which hinted at a greater fantastic enemy to come. And the entire book just never delivered. I was four chapters past it and still expecting Sansa's wolf to show up and come back to life, because clearly those wolves were going to play an important part on the family's journey. Nah. I finished the book still in this "waiting" mindset.
After finishing I did something I don't often do. I said no. I'm a completionist. I try to finish the series I read. Notable exceptions include the Wheel of Time (simply because I don't want it to end.. it's that... BIG to me). And other series I've won on GoodReads but only have the first book and it's difficult to obtain the others for whatever reason. But Game of Thrones is maybe one of two book series that I've deliberately stopped reading. The other was just horrific. So bad it's made me afraid to try free Amazon books and I've had some of my best books have been from free Amazon.
I'll throw out of my personal favorites: The Tom Series . It's time travel, but there's no advanced tech. Tom does bring his cave basic advancements such bows, atals, the concept of herding, etc. For some reason, Book 7 isn't included in the series list, but it does exist.
After reading you OP over again, maybe Tom series by Stephen Matthews is closer to what you want? I hear good things about this series too. MC time travels 47,000 years into the past. He's a modern man in a time where science is non-existent, and the only tech are primitive tools. I'm sure local humans, or what might pass for them, aren't going to be on his level.
That's all that comes to mind really. Hopefully that one hits closer to what your looking for.
This insanity is a real, published, paperback book.
The author is a NYT bestseller, and that’s the book they wrote. I don’t mean that in a bad way at all. That sounds like ridiculous, awesome fun.
Sometimes you have to let go of being “”””good”””” and let your enthusiasm become infectious.
Not Another Vampire Book by Cassandra Gannon. The h is a book editor who falls into a terrible vampire romance novel. The H is the villain of the terrible romance novel, who is sure the h is the destined bride of the vampire king, who is his greatest enemy. So he kidnaps her. But then he falls in love with her himself.
Hi!
I post here sometimes, but I'm using a different username today.
I published THIS for my first book. It's a time travel paranormal romance. Now I'm wondering if the cover/blurb are awful, as I'm working on a second book in the same world (not a series, but a set of standalones.)
For the book in the same world, I've mocked up a cover that needs work, but maybe has some direction: here.
I'd appreciate advice on either one of these. Thanks so much!
I'm a new author! My first book, Going Bearserk, was just released!
It's only 99 cents/Free in Kindle Unlimited!
Blurb for Going Bearserk: A Viking Shifter Romance
Lana:
I never believed in scary stories. Now I know better.
Now I’m on the run, looking for a new life. One where I can be free from my family’s expectations and safe from the darkness I discovered.
Enter Iohan, the mysterious and sexy stranger who rescues me from a mishap in the mountains. He’s a bit odd, sure, but he’s over six feet of jaw-dropping, muscular handsomeness. He also seems determined to protect me. Surely I can’t have found my new life already—and not with this man. After all, I’m beginning to suspect Iohan has a secret of his own…
Iohan:
I am a warrior with no battles to fight. Ripped from my time by a mysterious curse, I am destined to wait out the rest of my days alone. I have no faith, no family, no home.
When Lana appears in my mountains, she unlocks something inside of me. Something that I thought I could never feel again. She is running, and I am drawn to protect her. To make her mine. I can only hope that I will not become more dangerous to her than what she is running from…
Going Bearserk is a standalone novella (25k+) with a HEA
Try "Time and Again" by Jack Finney: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Again-Jack-Finney/dp/0684801051 It might not be quite what you're looking for but it is a pretty good book with an interesting time travel mechanism.
Kage Baker has a series (The Company) that starts with In the Garden of Iden. I haven't read them for years, but I think the agents had specific assignments when sent back to the past.
You've got scottish dialect, steamy romance, time travel, and cool combat nursing. What more could you want? :)
Someone from RAOA recommended it, and I just finished the third book. They're well priced too. I looooove it
Well, Outlander seems obvious, with the current television adaptation doing so well.
And maybe Riding Shotgun -
I suggest outlander which is an amaaazing book. It has great romance, scottish dialect, and it's really suspenseful. I read and loved the first one, and Im going to start the second one soon. The third and fourth are on my wishlist!
Edit: aaaand it's on sale!!
I accidentally hit "yes" to the book on Kindle Unlimited. I was pleasantly surprised. Not Another Vampire Book...it runs more satire, but if you ever want to tell your more typical romance heroes to fuck off, it's an oddly satisfying read.
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. All the dirty parts of 50 Shades without the BDSM, plus a healthy relationship. You can play it off like it's just historical fiction, and she won't feel awkward about it. It's also being made into a TV show on Showtime or HBO in the next year or two, so she'll be all caught up for it.
Not the fastest, but definitely the fastest for its size: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. It's over 800 pages long, and the first time I read it I finished in less than 48 hours. Looking back I have no idea how I did it.
I personally liked the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Solid historical fiction with a good dose of romance and adventure. The main character/narrator is female, but Jamie Fraser is easy to fall for - it helps that he's a Scot.
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon