The Blue Hour The Timeslip Series edition by Julie Tetel Andresen Romance eBooks
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Cancer researcher Alexandra Kaminski is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough when she crosses paths with pharmaceutical representative, Val Dorsainville, and the two are drawn into the mystery, passion, and tragedy of their past lives in 1880s Paris. Can they solve the mystery and avert tragedy this time around?
Karma and romance walk the hallways of Duke University Research Hospital, the streets of Paris, and the Polish neighborhoods of Chicago in Julie Tetel Andresen's first reincarnation romance, THE BLUE HOUR.
Original copyright 1998, Madeira Books
The Blue Hour The Timeslip Series edition by Julie Tetel Andresen Romance eBooks
I have all of the historical romances written by Ms. Andresen, both in paper and in Kindle. I obviously like her work very much. I was ecstatic to see this book offered in Kindle, as it was new to me, and I looked forward to reading it. Unfortunately, I hated it. The writing conventions were good, as is usual in this author's books. That was not a problem, but everything else about it was.I could not connect with the characters and I thought they felt flat and lifeless, as well as dull. The dialogue felt forced and stilted and was very dull. I like time-travel and time-twist stories but this one was confusing, disjointed and boring.
As I read the first chapter, my response was a confused "WTH?" Rereading some paragraphs and pages didn't enlighten me. As I got further into the book, I continued to have a lot of "WTH?" moments. There was a bit too much existential flavour for a light romance.
Some reviewers loved this book, but judging by their comments, we could have been reading entirely different books. The response to any book is subjective, so their opinions are valid; it is just that we had different responses and opinions.
One reviewer was critical of the veracity of the science, but this was not an issue for me because I am not familiar with the topic. I could suspend disbelief for the science, but I felt there was too much emphasis on the science. I know the characters are involved with medicine, but readers are reading the book for the romance and not for the science. I would have liked more emphasis on the romance and on human interaction.
I highly recommend this author's historical romances to anyone who likes clean, well written traditional romance books. They were originally published by Harlequin and are available on Kindle. However, I do not recommend this book to anyone. I hate to give a bad review to an author whose work I normally like, but this book was not up to her normal standards.
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The Blue Hour The Timeslip Series edition by Julie Tetel Andresen Romance eBooks Reviews
The double helix of DNA symbolises the bonding of the main characters of these two interwoven stories. In present day New York Alexandra is on the verge of a cure for cancer and Jeanne hopes to find a medical solution for the disease rife among the cancan dancers of Paris at the turn of the 19th century.
There's a touch of the magic of Gigi in this charming novel. The life of a young dancer in Paris at the turn of the 19th century can only be elevated by attracting a wealthy protector and depends greatly on her being very special, clean, socially acceptable and adept in the art of love and this author describes the art of lovemaking so beautifully it is not hard to see why the haut monde were entranced.
Little by little, we see the characters emerge in both settings and with the same values and vices and a connection starts to be made.
The author captures the atmosphere of Montmatre so beautifully that you could be there surrounded by the artists who flourished during that period. It was a little bit of escapism for me and I look forward to reading the other books in this trilogy.
The Blue Hour is a story of multiple lives entwined through several generations in rural France and Paris. The plot revolves around industrial espionage and the development of a quick and accurate urine test for cancer.
The story is OK but the science is not. Ms Andresen credits a Mr. K. of Glaxo Wellcome pharmaceutical company with helping her with the science. I don't know what year Ms Andresen did her science investigation, or how much time she spent with Mr. K., but while she is fine on the PCR technology, she missed some basic information about urine.
Test Early, Feel Safe is a cancer diagnostic that is used like a pregnancy test. It diagnoses various cancers using a revolutionary new way to strip genes out of the DNA in urine for rapid analysis (that's where the industrial espionage comes in). It seems clear that cancer-coded DNA would need to be present in the urine for the TEFS test to work regardless of whatever nifty analysis tools the protagonists invented. The problem is that the DNA found in urine is normal, even if you have cancer.
If you read anything about DNA testing, you quickly realize that your genome does not tell you whether you currently have cancer, only whether you have a higher or lower risk of getting it. Tumors are self-contained and while they may shed some cancerous cells (leading to metastasis) your body genome does not change.
For TEFS to work, abnormal cells from the cancer site, for example, breast or brain, would have to be present in the urine. But where does the telltale DNA come from? Urine is essentially just blood filtrate and is normally sterile. DNA in your urine comes from bits and pieces of kidney and bladder lining and sometimes white or red blood cells if you have an infection. These cells contain your everyday DNA, nothing special, so analyzing them is no different from analyzing cheek or skin cells. If you have a bacterial infection in your urinary tract your urine will also have DNA from the bacteria complicating things. Even if cancer cells were present, say from bladder cancer, there would also be a lot of normal cells there too. You can't detect cancer from normal cells.
Detecting secondary products of cancer would work much better as a plot device. Secondary products of cancer, for instance the odors that cancer dogs detect, are metabolic products, not DNA, and lots of metabolites get passed directly into urine from the blood. We cannot currently detect tumor metabolic products in the urine so if Ms Andresen's scientists found markers that correlated well with cancer status, that would be slick.
I found a lot of the writing awkward and wished that Ms Andresen had had a better editor.
I received this review copy of The Blue Hour (Timeslip Series #1) by Julie Tetel Andresen from NetGalley.com. The paperback was published by Madeira Books in December 1998. It has been published in a edition by Ms Andresen in January 2012.
I have all of the historical romances written by Ms. Andresen, both in paper and in . I obviously like her work very much. I was ecstatic to see this book offered in , as it was new to me, and I looked forward to reading it. Unfortunately, I hated it. The writing conventions were good, as is usual in this author's books. That was not a problem, but everything else about it was.
I could not connect with the characters and I thought they felt flat and lifeless, as well as dull. The dialogue felt forced and stilted and was very dull. I like time-travel and time-twist stories but this one was confusing, disjointed and boring.
As I read the first chapter, my response was a confused "WTH?" Rereading some paragraphs and pages didn't enlighten me. As I got further into the book, I continued to have a lot of "WTH?" moments. There was a bit too much existential flavour for a light romance.
Some reviewers loved this book, but judging by their comments, we could have been reading entirely different books. The response to any book is subjective, so their opinions are valid; it is just that we had different responses and opinions.
One reviewer was critical of the veracity of the science, but this was not an issue for me because I am not familiar with the topic. I could suspend disbelief for the science, but I felt there was too much emphasis on the science. I know the characters are involved with medicine, but readers are reading the book for the romance and not for the science. I would have liked more emphasis on the romance and on human interaction.
I highly recommend this author's historical romances to anyone who likes clean, well written traditional romance books. They were originally published by Harlequin and are available on . However, I do not recommend this book to anyone. I hate to give a bad review to an author whose work I normally like, but this book was not up to her normal standards.
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