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From "Kiki," a Janet Elaine Smith fan
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Damn, I just wrote a long message all about how much I just LOVED Janet E. Smith's PAR FOR THE
COURSE, and my darn cat jumped up on my keyboard and I lost the whole thing.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Anyhoo, I just
can't believe I waited this long to read this darling book! Blame it on the fact that I spend more time picking out the "next
book" as I do reading it....thousands upon thousands of unread ones...
The heroine, Mechi, has many of Janet's qualities........she's
open and honest and lovable and talkative and enthusiastic and kind!!!! I fell in love with Mechi and her Lord Robert,
and the whole Keith clan......
This was a wonderfully written timetravel taking Mechi from 1996 Aberdeen, Maryland,
to the 1550's Scotland! She got to visit Dunnottar Castle.........now I've GOT to have ANY and ALL books that tell of
this castle and it's inhabitants......
I got to meet Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I (shortly)......Lord Darnley......Janet
combined historical facts among fiction and it just blended so well one wouldn't know where one ended and the other began!
Mechi's intuitiveness with the moldy bread for the sick horses, only our Janet would think that one up.....when the pony stood
up, it brought tears to my eyes!
Believe me, you, too, will fall in love with these people.......I highly recommend
this book! I read and really liked MONDAY KNIGHT (except for her dirty habit of spitting)......and have
been bugging Janet for her TUESDAY book to be finished.......NOW I NEED DUNNOTTAR CASTLE........Fabulous, simply fabulous!
Janet, you did yourself proud! The book was warm and thwart with humor as only you could write! Mechi, always
breaking into "song" had me cracking up, as I do the same thing, and can't carry a note in a brown paper bag!
WONDERFUL!!!
Who else has read this book? We've GOT to chat about it.......I definitely want Genevieve's story....are you planning
on writing one Janet???? Please?????? PRETTY please???????
Members, get yourself a copy, one way or another......it's
not everyday you get to read one like this!
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AND FROM "CRAZY MO," My favorite reviewer.
PAR FOR THE COURSE
Janet Elaine Smith
PageFree Publishing
2003
ISBN: 1-58961-049-0
Time Travel Romance
Mechi Jeanotte is having a really bad hair day. As if it wasn't bad enough that
the young golf pro from St. Andrew's Golf Course in Aberdeen, Maryland had just lost her father and her fiancee is marrying
someone else, now she's received an urgent plea for an early morning private golf lesson from a very strange-sounding
lady named Liz Stewart. In the fog, no less! While waiting for the lady to show up, Mechi hits a golf ball and wakes up in
the lap of the most handsome man she's ever seen. At St. Andrew's Golf Course in Aberdeen, Scotland. In the year 1561. Believed
to have a head injury, Mechi is taken by Lord Robbie Keith and Mary, Queen of Scots to the Keith's at Dunnottar Castle for
care, which is quite fine with Mechi if it means spending more time with Lord Robbie.
Lord Robert Keith could have any woman he wanted. But none has ever entranced
him as much as Mechi Jeanotte, the strange Frenchwoman who cant speak French. While she is very much a mystery to all, he
can't help but want to spend as much time with her as possible. But what is she hiding? Is she a spy? Or a witch, as she has
truly bewitched him?
Mechi soon realizes the chance she has to change history and prevent Mary, Queen
of Scots from meeting her fate. Can she succeed in making Robbie and his father believe her about the threat to the young
queen's life and get them to aid her? Or will they truly think her a witch and throw her out? All this, while also dealing
with a jealous mother who thinks she isn't good enough for her son, and deciding where home really is....in 1997 or in Robbie's
arms in 1561.
Wonderful! Truly an entertaining tale, it was a truly believable mix of fact
and fiction. It was a treat to see a heroine stumble and slip as one would truly have imagined one to do when faced with
a past that didn't have the things one was used to, such as penicillin and other modern inventions. The scene of Mechi saving
the horses with moldy bread was truly awesome. And Lord Robbie! A hero I'd love to see more of. He was great! PAR FOR THE
COURSE is enjoyable and emotional, especially a very emotional scene between father and son near the end which I will not
go into further for fear of ruining a chance to read this awesome book. A book I highly recommend.
Reviewed by Maureen Boylan
A great book is like a great mind; it keeps on giving
over and over and over again!
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