I love this book. I've learned so much reading it and I'm definitely going to get volume 2.
Chapter one begins with Anne waking up in her modern world. Disoriented and confused, she tries to call out to her mother and gather her thoughts. Someone i forms her that she passed out and they're waiting for an ambulance to take her to a near hospital. When they arrive at the hospital the doctor tells her that she had a ruptured aneurism but that they repaired it with no complications. After a few days in the hospital her doctor gives her the news that although she survived the first aneurism, there would be another in her future that she wouldn't be so lucky with because it is deep in her brain tissue. Anne soon became depressed, not because she was going to die but because she wasn't in her Tudor life with Anne, Henry, and her friends.
Chapter two Anne gets released from the hospital. Her friend Kate, who she met at her work, came to pick her up to take her home. They talked about Daniel and if he had come to visit Anne while she was there. Anne says "i vaguely remember him here and I think there were tears in his eyes. He was telling me he loved me, over and over; that I was the best thing that has happened to him since the birth of his daughter" (304). She thinks about the love that Henry showed Anne and how she would have endured a thousand cuts for a love that was unsubstantial. Once she was home, Anne took the opportunity it fill the gaps in her knowledge of the Tudor era and the people she had met. She got lost in her books for three hours and was only brought back to her life when Daniel arrived at her house. Some of the parts about Daniel confused me because I couldn't tell what was present and what was from the past. Anyway, at one point he says, "You know someday soon you just might find me standing on your doorstep!" That just pissed me off because all that he's doing is leading her to believe that they might actually be together for real when in reality he's a coward and knows that he would never do it. Anne presents the idea of her going back to Hever and lies that it's for closure to the traumatic experience.
Chapter three Anne and Daniel went on a picnic by the ancient Ankerwycke Yew tree. Anne cries because of the loss of her old friends and Daniel thinks its because of her illness. She then tells him of her adventure to the past.
Chapter four Anne visits Hever castle. During her tour she sees Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours and knows that she truly did go back in time because the words 'Le Temps Vijendra, Je Anne Boleyn' were written on the page it was open to (332). She then makes her way to St Peter's church where she finds Thomas Boleyn's tombstone.
Chapter five- Nothing changed between Anne and Daniel. Anne started going to work again and attempting to ignore the Tudor times and her experience with it. Daniels daughter got sick with meningitis and he started to drift away from Anne. In April Anne made plans to go to an exhibition of King Henry VII. She spent the time reminiscing of her time in the Tudor era when she experienced it herself. Daniel ruins it by texting her saying, "Rose and I had a major argument. Don't think I can stand it anymore. Do you still want me?" Arghhhhhhh just drop the guy he obviously doesn't love you as much as he should. The book ends with one last text saying, "I've done it. I've left Rose. I need to see you. Where are you? Love you, Daniel."
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