Ami's Hoard

2.5 stars

Not my favorite of Vivien Dean's. While the idea of time travel and the fact that this story featured interracial couple, I was a bit annoyed with the 'connection through time' part. It was probably written that way -- Kiel had 'listened' to Freddie's stories in his time in the past, while in the present time Freddie was talking to Kiel's painting -- to reduce the effect of instant connection when Freddie was being pulled into the Civil War era. But it became way too easy.

Maybe it was the limitation of the length but I wanted to see how Freddie fumbled by being in the past, or how they worked out the part of Freddie being from the future and Kiel being an African American from a white man a lot more than what was presented here.