Journeys in Time: The Necklace: Part 2

 

Reviewed by: Jetana Mutter

*This book was provided for an honest review

Journeys in Time: The Necklace: Part 2 is a continuation of Arlene Foster’s part one.  In part one, we got to follow Dorrie as she switched lives with her great-great grandmother after receiving a family heirloom necklace that is passed down to each generation on the twentieth birthday of the women in the family.  Upon receiving the necklace from her grandmother, Kathleen, Dorrie inexplicably finds herself transported to not just another time, but in another’s body and having to adjust to being back in the past and dealing with being pregnant and alone in a time where it was socially unacceptable to be a single mother.  Part 2 follows the life of Dorothy around until the time of the switch with Dorrie; when the family necklace is given to Dorothy by her grandmother Sarah on her twentieth birthday, she is magically transported into the future and now has to navigate being an old-fashioned woman in modern times.  How difficult would it be to catch up with modern times when everything you know is in the past? Will Dorrie and Dorothy ever be able to switch back to their normal lives?

Arlene Foster does an amazing job with researching the time periods that her novels are set in; the details on social and financial aspects of the past are intertwined in a way that makes you believe you could be right there in the early nineteen-hundreds, experiencing everything first hand yourself.  Though this is not a typical book that I would have read, I’m glad to have been able to read this as is a refreshingly good find.  Books that take place in certain time eras have to be done to be believable, and Arlene Foster is one of the few authors, that I have come across, that has achieved that goal- from the mannerisms described to descriptions of how things are done shows how much time and effort she puts into her research to making it as authentic as possible.