Time Traveling Granny
~ Revolutionary War ~ Mohawk Valley NY ~ Time Travel ~
~ Historically Accurate Fiction ~ Romance ~
Presenting the adventures and misadventures
of a time traveling Granny. The Out of Time Books.

Out of Time Books

My love of time travel began with the book Time and Again by Jack Finney and rekindled when I read The Mirror by Marlys Milhiser.  This book I stayed up all night to read and couldn't put it down!

The history books don't tell you the story, the real people story; the Out of Time books do. This adventure into time travel began in 2005, and the story kept coming and coming.

The books are nice and thick with history and have a strong story line. They are a good value! If you like books that are continued with the same characters over time, these books are for you.

The story takes place in Spook Hollow, just a short distance away from the Mohawk River in New York State.

Read the review below!

I am currently reading the ninth novel in A.J. Berry's Out of Time series. It is easy to fall in love with Hope, the time traveler, as she brings her present-time reality into the eighteenth century. While she remains true to the historical period in which she finds herself, her ingenuity finds ways to enhance the "refrigeration" system, the "plumbing" facilities, and the "accounting" procedures of her adopted times. During her visits back to the present, she studies her neighboring Amish folk to see their techniques which could be transferred to Hope's eighteenth century lifestyle. And this is all perfectly believable, thanks to the skilled writing and extensive research of the author.

For one interested in period history, this is a gold mine of information. For the one who wants a good read, this series provides it. If one is looking for a romantic story line with its ups and downs, this series of books provides it in abundance. As I read these books, I laugh and I cry. I feel as if I know Hope intimately, so good is the character building by the writer. Perhaps my favorite subplot in each of the books is when Hope and various members of her family go back to relive a period of history. I found the re-creation of the time of Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the Christian Holy Day of Palm Sunday especially meaningful as Jesus notices Hope and her hunger to know Him. "He saw me, and He knew," she writes. I knew, too; it was that well written.

I recommend this series of books to all readers. Every personality will find one of the characters with whom to relate. A.J. Berry's imagination is active and alive as Hope navigates her way through the crises and the joys of life. It is obvious the writer has done her research into the setting of the novels, as the Mohawk Valley of New York State is depicted so clearly. The time to which Hope travels is also shown with integrity and reality.

I, for one, cannot wait to see what happens next! By Nancy Reynen

Find out where Hope went next.

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Into The Valley, coming soon