Twice Upon a Time

by Emilie Richards

Book Overview

A young woman suffering from amnesia awakens in a convent and learns she wants to be a nun and more surprisingly, she is pregnant. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380783649
• ISBN13: 9780380783649
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A new Life?

This book is sort of a sequel to Once More With Feeling. A young idealistic nun wannabe is hit on the head with a shovel by a juvenile delinquint with whom she was working. She recovers physically, but mentally she has no memory of who she was, what she did, what she liked, who she liked etc. The nuns take her home to the center where she had lived before the attack and nurse her back to health. She hates everything about the life--the prayers, the garden, the teens. The temporary editor of the local paper comes in to do a story and the attraction is there. He is the love interest of the TV reporter from Once More with Feeling. He has pulled away from life in the fast lane to try to discover what he really wants out of life. As the two of them work out their lives, complications arise. The most obvious is that she is pregnant, and has no idea who the father is. I enjoyed the book seeing her resolve the "who am I" question

The sequel to "Once More With Feeling". An enjoyable paranormal romance

From the back cover: A brave new world? Mary Kate McKenzie loves her work with wayward teens, but her youthful idealism isn't very effective--until a hard knock on the head turns the naive, rosy-viewed woman into a clear-eyed, no-nonsense dynamo whose new attitude makes everyone sit up and take notice. The problem is, Mary Kate has absolutely no memory of her former self. She only knows that she's pregnant--and has no memory of how she got that way! When sexy journalist Charles Casey arrives to do an article on the center and on Mary Kate, his questions finally begin to unlock some memories--but they seem to be of someone else's life, not her own. And since Casey claims never to have met her before, why does his touch feel so familiar, so right? As the new Mary Kate continues to unfold, she finds herself faced with a choice: should she move toward the excitingly different life her new self can grab, or could she be happy in her former quiet world, with the troubled kids she's learned to love--and Casey by her side? And my review: First off, I should state that while TWICE UPON A TIME, is a sequel to ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, both books work just fine as stand-alones. However, if you're planning on reading both books, read ONCE MORE WITH FEELING first, as TWICE does give away much of the plot. I really enjoyed ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, and TWICE UPON A TIME didn't let me down in the least. While many of the themes in this book are not new, (amnesia, waking up in another person's body), the way the author ties them together is. She has an enjoyable writing style that has an easy flow to it (with no head-hopping!), with a good plot and wonderful characters. While there's no intrigue to this book, and the mystery surrounding the heroine is pretty thin, it doesn't detract from the book at all. The story is about people, not about mile-a-minute action. It's a great human-interest story. Emilie Richards did a good job of putting burning questions in my mind that kept me turning the pages. I was constantly wondering who Mary Kate really was. Was she another person trapped in someone else's body? Was she Gypsy, the woman the hero had loved and lost? Or was she Mary Kate with a few scrambled brain pathways? Or perhaps a hybrid of the two women? Would she regain her memory, and if she did, whose memory would it be? I also really liked that the romance wasn't rushed in this book. Too many authors have their characters kissing and/or falling into bed mere minutes after the first hellos. That didn't happen here--thank goodness. When the hero and heroine finally kissed, I wanted it happen almost as badly as they did. The mark of a good author is one who can engage the reader's emotions, and Richards certainly managed to do that here. The characters grew and developed over the course of the book. I loved watching Mary Kate go from a confused woman ready to run away to a strong woman who grew to love her life. I also loved watching Casey go from being a comm

Haunting piece about a love that is given a second chance

Mary Kate was considered a saint by all who knew her. She was a person who devoted her life to helping others, especially teenagers in trouble. Her goodness was rewarded with tragedy when she was severely injured while stepping between two teens intent on killing each other. She nearly lost her life. The doctors were convinced that she would never walk or think normally again. She proves the professionals wrong as she fights all the way to recover 100% of her physical and mental faculties. However, she has lost the memories of her past life. The new Kate is entirely different from the person she was before the incident. She is now street savvy, given to cursing, and interested in the opposite sex. When Kate meets the new editor of the local newspaper, Charles Casey, she experiences a strong feeling of deja vu. Casey had come to the town to recover from the death of the woman he once loved, but every time he visits Kate, he sees glimpses of his beloved in Kate's visage and demeanor. If a reader believes in miracles, they will want to peruse TWICE UPON A TIME, a hauntingly memorable tale about two people who get a second chance at loving each other. Emile Richards allows readers to believe that there are more things on heaven and earth than anyone has ever dreamed existed. This turns the novel into a very special paranormal romance that will not be easily forgotten. Harriet Klausner