Before I Wake by Mary Ellen Johnson

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 She is looking at herself in another place and time. How must that feel? Her lives are complicated. Obviously, she has lost touch with her real self. Her name is Magdalena.  Her other name is Janey. The story is intriguing. Is reminds me of Time Travel novels. Falling back and forth in time. Wishing you could stay with one special person like Ranulf Navarre: handsome, strong and all the other good qualities owned by men. 

Magdalena has married five times. This fifth man made her hate men. She never wanted another man to call her own. Perhaps, she has begun to write her novel, a Medieval one. Since he is like a vampire or is one, she would have needed some type of escape. Maybe the novel she is writing led to her other selves. It is a novel that makes you think about who are we really in life. Where do I belong? Here or there or some where in between the now and forever. While Magdalena is puzzled by Janey's life and her life, dream or reality, "Before I wake" is fun. I like traveling across time and space in the pages of a book. After all, I am not the bewildered one who meets the most special man and must leave him. By the way, there is a name for this phenomena. It is "regression." Mary Ellen Johnson, for dessert, gives interesting facts about the century.

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