This is an unusual time-travel romance. Instead of one of the characters traveling in time and then finding their true love, these characters go back and forth in time.

Roseleen, a history professor and collector of antique weapons, has just made the coup of a lifetime: a medieval sword, "Blooddrinker's Curse." She had to buy it through her step-brother, as the previous owner was convinced that a woman must never be allowed to own the sword.

Understandably, because when a woman holds it, she summons its owner, Thorn Blooddrinker, from Valhalla, and he's cursed to obey her every command.

Roseleen's confusion and disbelief is well-done, falling between unbelievable credulity and boring (if probably realistic) insistence on disbelief that goes on too long. Thorn's reactions, too, are realistic--he's angry at being summoned, particularly when the woman summoning him doesn't seem to have any reason for it.

Their falling in love is a given, and unfortunately, as such, it's not particularly believable. I believe they're in lust with each other, and I believe that history professor Roseleen finds an actual Viking warrior fascinating. I just don't see true love. But I'm notoriously skeptical.

What made the book for me was when their time-traveling (Thorn can go to any time in which the sword has existed, and he likes going to battles) causes changes that are evident when they return to the present. Trying to figure out what they'd changed and how, and going back to fix things was lots of fun, reminiscent of The Butterfly Effect.

This novel, combined with her attempts at SF with Warrior's Woman and Keeper of the Heart, make me wonder why Lindsey keeps trying with the crossover stuff since she clearly has very little talent for it. With this book, the romance and the time travel fight with each other rather than work together and create a tepid, barely competent romance that would never make it as SF/fantasy.

And what about that romance? Once again we're given a heroine who is apparently really hot, but who doesn't want anyone to notice, and also she's a virgin at twenty nine, because we can't have a Lindsey female who's NOT a virgin even when she's from the 1990's. And the hero? Yup, you guessed it, another drop dead gorgeous misogynistic jerk, just like 99.9% of her male leads. Except he's, like, cursed or something. Right.

In fact, just like all the settings Lindsey's ever used, the time travel and history is just a prop to support a tepid romance that would be better described as animal lust, since also like most of her other characters, the only thing these two really seem to like about each other is that they spend a great deal of their time either having sex or thinking about having sex, or how one makes the other want to have sex, et cetera.

So if you like formulaic romance with some SF/fantasy window dressing, this might be tolerable. If you like your SF/fantasy with a little romance, get back to your side of the book store, this isn't what you're looking for. Go try, I don't know, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight: it's got time travel, sex, and dragons as an added bonus.

I've always been a sucker for time travel novels, especially when there is a healthy dose of romance involved as well.

Until Forever is a novel that kept me riveted from the first page until the last. Why can't I find a cursed sword that comes with a devastatingly handsome Viking?!

The medieval period has always lured me, which is probably why most of the historicals I read have to do with that period in time. What I loved about this book is that Lindsey gave a history lesson along with the budding romance of Roseleen White and Thorn Blooddrinker. I found myself transported back time and time again (their trip through time kept messing up the present history) to the Battle of Hastings and could almost hear the clash of swords and the crys of horses and men as they fought. She truly brought the past to life.

Imagine if you will you are from another time, long before the invention of the automobile and you are transported to the 20th century and experience your first ride in a car. I admired how she handled Thorn's first experience without making him seem wimpy. One of the most memorable scenes was when Roseleen sent him to the kitchen to scrounge up some food. I could picture the devastation in my minds eye.

The novel had me laughing and toward the end, crying when Roseleen sent Thorn away. In my opinion, any novel that can get me emotionally involved with the characters is a good read. And Until Forever is just that. Lindsey tells a wonderful tale of a point in history that everyone is familiar with without it becoming a history lesson. Until Forever kept me engrossed until I turned the last page. I was actually sad when the story came to the end. I would have loved to find out how Wolfstan the Mad and Thorn had become enemies in the first place...and what about Wolfstan...he is a ghost but under a curse as well. Although a minor character, I was rather disappointed that she didn't give Thorn's enemy more pages. When he did show up, toward the end of the book, his appearence was all to brief. According to Thorn, Wolf only appeared once a summoning, so it was pretty much it for him. Sad really because I'd like to see more of that Viking as well.

Perhaps in the future she'll consider doing a story revolving around Wolf's curse.

This book perfectly captures what a time travel romance novel is supposed to do. The characters respond to the situation of traveling through time in a perfectly believeable manner. Great read and it never loses it's appeal.

Was a very good read and I'm not usually that into time travel/sci fi romances. The hero was a little lacking intellectually but he made up for it with his loyalty and brawny manliness. I read the reviews here and someone recommended Knight in Shining Armour...I was reluctant but stuck with it and it turned out to be an epic. You will enjoy both.