I have a special loathing for time-travel novels in which modern heroine goes back in time and decides to stay there, abandoning all her modern family and friends, not to mention healthcare and lack of endemic violence, in order to live with a studly hunk. I want to take the silly twit and shake her, asking: "you do realize there are no antibiotics, you have few rights, you can die in childbirth, you can never travel much due to logistics, you new husband will be off on regular murdering and raping expeditions, and you and your new loved ones are subject to a high chance of violent death" whenever some modern day PhD ditches it all to shack up with a Viking.
Funny that you should mention it. Because there actually is one book I rather liked that had the heroine going back in time and staying there... Except the twist was that the heroine herself wasn't a modern woman but a 1700s woman going back to the 1400s. Admittedly she got over the whole supernatural aspect relatively quickly, but I had much less issue with her deciding to stay and the very, very, very least the book was thus thankfully free of any quirky, dated pop culture references.
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Who doesn't want to die of influenza or smallpox?
I have a special loathing for time-travel novels in which modern heroine goes back in time and decides to stay there, abandoning all her modern family and friends, not to mention healthcare and lack of endemic violence, in order to live with a studly hunk. I want to take the silly twit and shake her, asking: "you do realize there are no antibiotics, you have few rights, you can die in childbirth, you can never travel much due to logistics, you new husband will be off on regular murdering and raping expeditions, and you and your new loved ones are subject to a high chance of violent death" whenever some modern day PhD ditches it all to shack up with a Viking.
Funny that you should mention it. Because there actually is one book I rather liked that had the heroine going back in time and staying there... Except the twist was that the heroine herself wasn't a modern woman but a 1700s woman going back to the 1400s. Admittedly she got over the whole supernatural aspect relatively quickly, but I had much less issue with her deciding to stay and the very, very, very least the book was thus thankfully free of any quirky, dated pop culture references.