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The Time Traveling Matchmaker by Janie Emaus (Time Traveling Matchmakers #1) | $50 Giveaway, Guest Post, & Review

A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.

Book Details

The Time Traveling Matchmaker by Janie Emaus
Series: Time Traveling Matchmakers #1
Published by The Wild Rose Press on 07/25/2022
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romantic Fantasy, Time-Travel
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 224

Like every goal-oriented twenty-something, Jessica Singleton, an aspiring filmmaker, is obsessed with finding her future as quickly as possible. What she doesn't know is that the future is obsessed with finding her.

Renn Porter, an agent with Time Traveling Matchmaker's Inc, blasts back in time-and into her life-in order to transport Jessica to the soul mate who has paid for this service...in the future. But things turn dangerous when it's revealed that Renn has been sent after his own soul mate.

Caught between two times, Jessica and Renn struggle to stay alive. Falling in love is the biggest risk either of them have ever taken because, as they are destined to learn, the very existence of Time Traveling Matchmakers, Inc. rests in Jessica's hands.

Source: Goddess Fish Promotions, Received from the author or publisher for review.

 

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Excerpt from The Time Traveling Matchmaker

Ever was a word that didn’t do well alone. It goes much better with happily and after. The way my life used to be. The way I thought it never would be again after David, and then along came Renn. And the world opened up, even better than before.
His lips. His touch. His eyes. His voice. There wasn’t room in my mind for thoughts of anything else.

It didn’t matter that he claimed he came from the future. Maybe he did. So many things in this world defy logic. Especially love.

Please, God, bring him back to me.

My stomach growled. I opened the fridge again and picked up the healthiest looking apple, one without any bruises.

The apple tasted sour. I spit the skin into my hand and tossed the whole thing in the trash. The fabric in my pocket grew warm.

“Jessica.”

I spun around. Renn leaned against the wall, his trench coat open to expose a silky blue shirt. His lemony scent drifted into the room.

“It’s you,” I said, stating the obvious and feeling foolish for doing so.

His smile filled me with lightness.

“It’s me,” he said, as if he’d just returned from the store. In fact, he held a bag of donuts.

Donuts! He vanishes out of the bathroom and materializes out of thin air the next day with donuts?

A second later, the bag fell to the ground, and I was in his arms, kissing him. Putting the ever back into my life.

 

Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.

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My thoughts on The Time Traveling Matchmaker

Janie Emaus served up an amazing debut adult novel. Her unique twist on time traveling created an intriguing tale of soulmates, love across time, intense friendships, and relationships.

Jess and Renn, the main characters, fight the evil and corruption that threatens to pull them apart forever. They each present points of view, giving the story a well-rounded perspective.

While the story occasionally drug a bit, I was never tempted to put the book down. What more could you ask for? Time-crossed love, an evil antagonist, great friendships, and coffee talk!

I love the twist at the end. I certainly didn’t see that coming. I wish I could tell you more, but you’ll have to grab your own copy to figure it out.

I look forward to the next book in the series to tie up a few loose ends. I can’t wait to see what’s next for the Time Traveling Matchmakers.

I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

I’ve also recently reviewed the children’s picture book, Latkes for Santa Claus by Janie Emaus.

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The Sentencing of the English Language – Janie Emaus

I may be one of a handful of people who really enjoyed diagramming sentences. I just loved how the words fell together in such a logical manner. To me, it all made perfect sense.

In fact, if I could, I’d time travel back to those days.

Nouns. Verbs. Prepositions. Adjectives. Adverbs. Every word had a job to perform — subject, object, predicate — and a proper place in the sentence. When I finished with my diagram, I felt like I had performed serious sentence surgery, and the world was better off because of my performance. I’d go around diagramming in my head as the words floated into place.

But like I said, I was in the minority, and eventually, this method of teaching was deleted from the curriculum. I’m fairly certain there weren’t any tears shed by our English teachers. Or any students standing on picket lines threatening to stop going to school unless diagramming was reinstated.

But what about the words themselves? How did they feel being cast aside, having to fight for their proper place in between all those punctuation marks?

Well, they did quite well for years. For decades, actually. Until — the cyberspace revolution. And then it seemed as if overnight, all those wonderful nouns and verbs had been replaced by pictures and abbreviations, some even reduced to one single letter.

It’s like a foreign language out there in the world of emails and texting. TTYT. LOL. IMO. BTW. Every day I get an email with some sort of code that I can’t understand. And believe me, I try to figure it out. I make up what I think the letters stand for and then hope that I’m wrong. How dare they say that?

And I’ve tried to write my emails with complete sentences, remembering those old diagramming rules.

But once I learned how to text, I realized why abbreviations are being used. It’s so much easier and thus quicker than typing out the entire word. But why do we feel the need to make things easier? And why do we need this instant gratification of texting in the first place?

Or simply sending an emoji to reflect our inner feelings? I fear younger generations are going to forget how to express themselves with words.

Cell phones are bad enough. With everyone plugged in like some space alien talking to themselves as they grocery shop or stand in line at the bank.

It used to be that we left work for lunch and bathroom breaks, but now work just trots along with us.

Where r u
P ing

And with texting comes a whole new set of anxieties. How come he didn’t answer right away? Oh, God! Did he misunderstand what *I* texted? Was she being sarcastic? Or mean?

With texting we lose the intimacy of a conversation, of voice inflections and pauses. Of giving a word a certain meaning in the way we linger over the syllables.

Text interpretation used to mean understanding what was in our schoolbooks. Now it means deciphering our instant messages. I can’t help but wonder if we’re opening up a whole new world for the psychotherapists.

But of course, I’m not one to be left behind. I’m going to keep up with all the new technology. It’s the only way to stay young. Not that I agree with these changes. No, as I mentioned, I’d rather travel back to those days.

Give me an old-fashioned dictionary, a paper and pen and some long complicated sentence without any funny pictures. And I guarantee you, our world would be a kinder, more peaceful place.

But for now, this baby boomer is saying TTYL. The best thing we can do — is what we did in our youth — KOT.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

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Giveaway!

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Full Tour Schedule:

July 18: Lisa Haselton’s Reviews and Interviews
July 19: Kit ‘N Kabookle
July 20: The Key Of Love
July 21: Romance Novel Giveaways
July 22: All the Ups and Downs
July 25: Fabulous and Brunette

July 26: Viviana MacKade
July 27: Christine Young
July 28: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
July 29: Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books! – review only
July 29: Long and Short Reviews
August 1: Dawn’s Reading Nook

August 2: Literary Gold
August 3: Candrel’s Crafts, Cooks, and Characters
August 4: The Avid Reader
August 5: Words of Wisdom from The Scarf Princess
August 8: Joanne Guidoccio
August 9: Gina Rae Mitchell – review

August 10: Westveil Publishing
August 11: Hope. Dreams. Life… Love
August 12: Sandra’s Book Club – review only

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