Renaissance Faire is a time-traveling romance centering on college graduate Emily and Scotsman, Dall MacGregor.
It starts off very promising with a great plot and the potential for strong, likable characters but falls short of actually following through. Reading this book was like reading through the first draft. A thesaurus would have been extremely beneficial to Stain because words were repeated over and over and nothing was ever elaborated on. Everything just jumped from one thing to the next with no explanation. There wasn't much character building and you never got a true sense of what the characters were really like. Heck, you never even got a physical description of them!
Dall and Emily fall in "love" way too quickly to be authentic. Also unbelievable is how fast Emily thinks of, and accepts, the reason for Dall's behavior as time travel. I mean, usually when someone is acting strange it's because he IS strange. Here, though, it's obviously because he's a time traveler. The druids are quite mysterious. The added secrecy makes the story interesting but, once again, is never really explained. The use of technology is a clever concept but, SURPRISE!, there's never more information to make it credible.
I do have to say, though, that the story could have been great. If Stain could rewrite/revise the book as if it were a rough draft, I think it could be a hit novel.
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