The Open Doorway, by Madeleine Mitchell
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The Open Doorway, by Madeleine Mitchell
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Time travel hurts. You don't need machines or black holes or event horizons - just Shawnee magic, an electrical storm, and a dose of good old fashioned agony. It’s the summer of 2015, as British dancer, Leigh Boswell, flees her abusive husband, Daniel, on a vacation trip to Gettysburg, USA. If the creepy child she meets at the Devil’s Den isn’t enough to freak her out, the storm the girl summons blasts Leigh into the aftermath of one of America’s bloodiest battles on 3rd July 1863 where, sick and disorientated, she’s helped by a young confederate soldier, Lewis Thornton Powell, whose simple act of compassion has repercussions across two centuries. In the Federal field hospitals of Old Dorm and Camp Letterman, and the notorious West's Building Prison Hospital in Baltimore, Leigh is taken under the wing of confederate sympathiser, Maggie Branson, and endures the horrors of Civil War nursing as she struggles to adapt in an alien world. Fate and circumstance take her deep into the Virginian countryside where she’s adopted by Daniel's ancestors; the Chandlers, and meets once more with the enigmatic Powell, with whom she seems unable to escape a mutual destiny. Tormented by her knowledge of the future, Leigh is driven to the sprawling metropolis of Washington DC in a desperate bid to alter fate and change history; but as her nightmare unfolds, she finally uncovers the terrible truth about the man she loves. Based on true events, The Open Doorway is a novel of struggle in adversity, timeless love, and karmic absolution. It pits the past against the future where for everything given in life, a price must be paid; and for everything taken, something wonderful is offered in return.
The Open Doorway, by Madeleine Mitchell- Amazon Sales Rank: #599016 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-10
- Released on: 2015-05-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Like the author By Julie Munich An enjoyable, shameless escapist fantasy! Like the author, I have been so intrigued with the Lincoln Assassination conspiracy story and the key players for years. It began when I saw photographs of the conspirators' hanging, and their haunting mugshot photos which seemed to make 150 years so much closer and more personal than I'd ever imagined. Who were these unfortunate people who also fell prey to John Wilkes Booth?Leigh Boswell is a young, beautiful English woman who visits Washington D.C. and tours Ford's Theatre with her abusive husband. After an argument, she is abandoned at an old Civil War battlefield. In a thunderstorm, she is zapped through a time portal where she is shocked to discover she has been transported to the real Civil War in 1863. A Confederate soldier carries her to a war hospital camp. The soldier isn't a random, fictional Confederate soldier- he's the enigmatic Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Thornton Powell, who was hung on July 7, 1865. He was a handsome and intriguing young man who died a horrific death, and it's understandable why the author chose him to be the romantic hero in the novel.I enjoyed this very much. I read it on Kindle, and I did notice some grammatical and punctuation errors and need of editing. Story-wise, I couldn't put my Kindle down for nearly a whole day! It was a good, long, epic novel with a long, winding plot.There was one thing that annoyed me a lot about Leigh. She was a 'strong female character,' but was annoying and a bit trite the way she fought with men using martial arts and 'bad..." (you know) moves. It seemed too much of a modern female movie stereotype. In one scene, she performs the ballet to thundering applause in 1865 Washington and drop-kicks racist bullies shortly after. She is a little overdone to me. I'd like to know more about the (real-life) Branson family and whether or not Mary Branson's relationship with Lewis was true to real history. Ms. Marshall's historical research is amazingly done. It fits into every book I've ever read about Powell, Booth and the conspirators' execution to the tiniest detail.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Wasn't Able to Put it Down By AE Horn I have spent a lot of time researching the Civil War, particularly the Battle of Gettysburg, and even wrote an 80 page paper on the subject in college, so this book immediately caught my attention. I am also hard to impress when it comes to writing in fiction. This book not only kept my interest the entire time, I found it historically accurate, for the most part, and extremely entertaining. Ms. Mitchell takes what could possibly be interpreted as an over-done topic (saving Lincoln from his assassins/time travel) and puts an extremely interesting spin on it. I was very familiar with Lewis Powell's story before reading the book and I think Mitchell's interpretation of who the man might have been as well as taking on the subject of how much of our life is truly predestined.There were some things that were inaccurate. For example, the figure of 51,000 deaths at Gettysburg is given as a fact whereas there were really only about 8,000 deaths in the battle. The figure of 51,000 includes wounded and captured. This is just a minor detail, however. I ended up with a few questions regarding the author's theory on reincarnation as well, but in the end it didn't matter. Mitchell creates an unlikely hero and weaves a love story around the possibilities of what one person known to history as a scoundrel might have been to those who really cared about him. She does it using eloquent language that flows well and keeps one reading. The story never lagged, and I wanted to finish it as much as I didn't ever want it to end.There were some grammatical issues a good proofreader could have caught, as well as some formatting issues, beyond the fact that she is writing in British English, not the American English I am used to. These were annoying at times but didn't take away from the story. Overall, I found it to be a very good read and would recommend it to anyone who loves romantic historical fiction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Wonderfully researched with attention to historical accuracy and well developed By godeygirl Wonderfully researched with attention to historical accuracy and well developed, defined characters - a story about the civil war and events leading up to the Lincoln Assassination. Definitely a story to get lost in!
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