A review by karlabrandenburg
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

4.0

How many books do you remember a week after you've finished reading it?

I read this book when it was first released, and I read it again when it was re-released. Dougless is such a charming underdog, the youngest child trying not to be the family clown. She feels like she can't do anything right, and in spite of landing a doctor (who is going to propose "any day") she discovers he isn't her best choice in husband material, but he's her chance to appear to have done the right thing with her family. Until she meets her knight in shining armor, and he shows her how a man should treat a lady.

One of the first time travel romance novels, this story stuck with me for all these years, and even in re-reading it (I must have been mixing up two books, they don't BOTH travel through time, do they?), I still loved the way Dougless uses a waterfall as a shower, and I remembered Nicholas's trip to the dentist. I love the way Nicholas is fascinated by modern-day inventions. Particularly endearing is the ending... Because love endures the test of time.