Merrow has a pleasant writing style and paces her story well. A Trick of Time is a sweet, gentle romance with a hint of suspense and the time travel element to spice things up. This being a novella, I decided to keep my review reasonably short (my kinda short anyway :p). He has to see his historical lover again. When he heads back to the theater and to our modern world, he realizes that his life cannot ever be the same again. A rent boy leads him through a labyrinth of dirty, dark alleys, gets on his knees and….Ted’s been done for (if he wasn’t already). In case you were wondering…… YES, he does get his freak on in what you can only call a school example of instant love. Ted’s still in the process of trying to bounce back when he - much as in the case I described above - steps out of the theater on his cigarette break and finds himself in….Victorian London. A family friend landed him a job as a jack of all trades at a London theater.
Luckily, Ted Ennis has no such objections! More than a year ago, his husband and parents got killed in a car crash that left him with a permanent head injury and slurred speech. So yes, I personally find it a little difficult to indulge in the idea of smutting it up with a Victorian prostitute. They believed that Syphilis was “inflicted by the Almighty to act as a restraint upon the indulgence of evil passions”. What’s amusing, is that physicians back then apparently considered STD ridden prostitutes a blessing. Victorian fashion may ignite romantic fantasies, in reality a large number of the London population bit the dust before even turning 30, among other reasons due to outbreaks of cholera, smallpox, typhoid and scarlet fever. I confess to being somewhat of a history nut and thus can’t help associating Victorian rent boys with filth, lice, fleas, Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Now would you or wouldn’t you get your freak on with him? Astonished, you suck the grime, dirt and decay into your lungs and then…you lock eyes with a pretty boy who casually leans against a lamppost. Question: you step out of your house one day to go to work find yourself in 19 th century Victorian London. Now Ted has one last shot to get back to Jem and save their relationship, before it’s too late… What starts as a sordid transaction with a beautiful rent boy quickly turns into something much deeper, drawing him back again and again as he gets to know Jem and craves meaningful encounters with him.īut Ted doesn’t understand the exact conditions necessary for his trips through time-and for Jem, time may actually be running out. At first he thinks it’s all a film set, and is sure that the strikingly handsome young man leaning against a lamppost must be the leading man…
When Ted Ennis steps out the doors of the Criterion Theatre for a cigarette and finds himself in Victorian London, he begins to doubt his sanity.
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