The Veil
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Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart.
This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel. Their heady, romantic encounters douse Sally in the sad reality that her marriage is anything but and leave her tempted to join Nathaniel permanently in his realm.
Is Sally’s marriage literally a fate worse than death, or is there another way altogether?
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This is how this went. Oh darn I have to fold laundry and clean, I should listen to an audiobook. Looks at audibles originals Wow only 40 mins long and the cover has pink! And I started to listen.
This story was a clusterfuck in a good way? Our FMC is working an Victorian museum and finds herself falling into an alternate universe which she believes at first is a dream, when she meets a man who is somehow stuck in time or dead? Something of that sort. They instantly fall in love and there is a few nice kisses but apparently he is a virgin? and doesn't kiss well with his tongue? I don't know how that prudent to this story but I know it now unfortunately. They decided wow we love each other let's get married yay!! Big ole problem, she is already married and it made me feel icky because we also get to see the scenes of this last luster marriage but guy wasn't like an asshole so I didn't like the whole “cheating” part. So in order to leave her husband and marry this time traveling man, she has to kill herself and she's like completely down for it. Until, she has the smallest bit of self reflection and goes maybe I don't need a husband and I can just be by myself. JESUS CHRIST was that all it took? Almost killing yourself and time traveling with a less than stellar kisser?
It kept my interest but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone with ears.
I think this could have been way better as a fleshed out book so that the romance had more time to believably develop. But I liked the premise!
