Time for Tea
Waters of Time
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The year is 2173, and with celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the American Revolution getting underway, business is booming at time travel consulting firm Constantine and Associates. Still, the last thing Olivia Lake expects on her first day of work is to be thrust into preparation for a time jump, in partnership with the dashing and apology-prone George Merrill. Their destination: London, 1773, to retrieve a pound of Bohea leaf destined for the Boston Tea Party. Before long, Olivia is immersed in danger, string quartets and love triangles amongst tea smugglers in the South of England, trying to stay afloat and do her job despite George’s unpredictability and the secrets shadowing their quest. Are those secrets linked to Olivia’s clandestine search for a missing Constantine and Associates employee: her husband, Bernard Quan?
Customer Reviews
Excellence in Brewing and Savoring
Ms. Smith has created a compelling and well written tale. What is most striking is her character development. The complexity and variety of the repartee between the characters is dazzling. All the characters are convincing in thought, word, and gesture, and they perform well in two worlds, one a futuristic society and the second historical England, except for a few lapses, which by design move the plot along. As if on stage, the actors have the full support of director Smith’s expert research skills; the detailed settings, costumes, props, placement are all there. This novel should be read slowly or multiple times, for there is a wealth of subtlety. The editing is excellent. There are questions left unanswered as this book closes, but it is, after all, the first in the series. The author states that the second volume, Time and Fevers, will be out in 2014. Deducing how much effort and time went into creating Time for Tea (published December 2013), it might be unfair to impatiently remind Ms. Smith it is now 2014.