I am very pleased to have Wendy Godding, with her debut novel, Time After Time on A Thousand Words A Million Books for an Interview and Giveaway! A HUGE thanks to both the author and Poliona Madorsky from Escape Publishing (Harlequin Australia) for agreeing!
Author: Wendy
Gooding
Publisher: Escape
Publishing (Harlequin Australia)
Publishing Date: April
1st 2014
Blurb Description: She has died
countless times before, and she is not going to let it happen again.
Abbie Harper dies
just before her eighteenth birthday. It has happened before, more times than
she can remember — and always at the hands of the same man. Her dreams are plagued
with past lives, cut short.
But this latest
dream feels different. Her past life as Penelope Broadhurst — an English
pastor’s daughter in 1806 — keeps bleeding into her present life in ways both
sinister and familiar. As Penelope meets and falls in love with the dashing
Heath Lockwood, so too does Abbie meet the brothers Marcus and Rem Knight. One
wants to love her; the other to kill her.
Time is running out
for Penelope, but as Abbie mourns her inability to change the past, she chases
the slim chance to save her future. To survive, she must solve the puzzle of an
ancient love story…and Penelope just might be able to help
**Giveaway**
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**Interview**
1. For those among us who haven't had the
pleasure, do give us a gist of your main characters- Abbie, Marcus and Rem and
the rather timeless situation they're in!
Abbie, Marcus and Rem are locked in a
reincarnation love triangle with a murderous twist. It's something that began
centuries ago and which, until this present life, Abbey has been powerless to
stop.
2. Do elaborate on your
experience switching between two centuries- the 21st and the 19th- and which
one you preferred!
Switching between the two
time periods was actually a lot easier than I first thought it would be. The
difficult part was linking the two girls together (or one girl really) where
they had a tangible way of helping one another. I mean, how do you save
someone's life when you are born two hundred years apart?
I definitely preferred the 19th century! I
love the manners, the formality of the period, and I loved setting Penelope's
story in the English countryside. The wild landscape and the moors.
3. If you were Abbie or
Penelope or any of her other reincarnations, who would you choose- Marcus or
Rem?- bad boys or clean cut ones?
I've always picked the
good guys - my husband epitomises good guys - but in romantic fiction I love
the bad boy so maybe in my past life I might choose the bad boy.
4. What other great reads can we see from you
after Time after Time?
I'm currently working on another young adult
novel, about a girl who is the sole survivor of her family on board the
Titanic. Her family were scientists, who'd been travelling the world, and her
father was taking his extraordinary discovery home when disaster struck. And
there are people out there who are desperate for this knowledge and would do
anything to get it.
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| Wendy Godding |
We
would love to know more about you:
1.
5 things about you that
(psst) nobody knows:
I've never tried coke a cola, I've worn nail polish every day
since I was twelve (bit weird), I am terrified if mice (ridiculously), my 9
year old has tried to teach me chess but I'm a little embarrassed that I just
don't get it, when I was younger I wanted to be a movie star
2.
5 material things you
can't live without:
iPad, kindle, my bed, bathtub, my dresses
3.
Favourites:
Favorite Movie? Gone
With the Wind
Favorite Song?
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush - I sing it in the car and love hitting those
high notes (or not)
Favorite Book? The
Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons (the best love story ever)
Favorite TV Show?
Vampire Diaries - Damon is hot, hot, hot!
Favorite Author? Too
many, at the moment it is Abbie Glines. Can't get enough of her.
Favourite Character (from a book, of course!) Elizabeth Bennett
**Review**
Drowned, Hanged, Poisoned, Stabbed, Throat Slit,
you name it- it’s happened to her. All of them just while she was finding true
love. All of them at the age of seventeen. Even before civilization became
civilized, this story has already begun…
From the war clad ancient kingdoms, to the era
of hanging without proper trials, to the sweet, fresh countryside of nineteenth
century England, that brings us to our present day, hip- hopping lives, Abbie
Harper remembers it all. For the first time, in centuries of playing a game he
has never truly understood, the hunted has something over the hunter.
Time after Time is an extremely EXTREMELY
intriguing book that had me, and will have you, from the first line onwards!
Reading the blurb, you’ll see that it switches between two contrasting worlds-
that of the sweet Penelope in the nineteenth century and that of Goth- girl Abbie
in the rather glamorous world we live in today.
But that’s not the point. You can gather all
that from the above, and I’m not going to say it all again! And then again, if I
say more, you’ll probably know too much. Knowledge is power, after all, and I’m
not divulging ANY- you’re gonna have to just read it yourself!
When the gorgeous Marcus Knight and his
strangely unnerving brother move in next door, she knows that the game is
starting again…
I liked Time After Time, it was a fun, quick
read, with all the right elements and paired with a cup of hot coffee and
beautiful weather, it took me no less than a day to flip through! Throughout, I
wondered why Rem did it- why Abbie- through all of those centuries, all that
pain why would he kill a girl, and his own flesh and blood? You get the answer
somewhere in the middle, and you. Will. Be. Shocked.
I strongly recommend that you read it! To
finish off:
One girl, two brothers- one who wants to love
her, the other to kill her- in a tale as old as time. Is that not enough?
My
Verdict:
Need I say more? God. READ IT!
