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    STITCHES IN TIME
    STITCHES IN TIME
    STITCHES IN TIME
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    STITCHES IN TIME

    Written by Barbara Michaels

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death.

    But there is more than good in the quilt's magic power. Day by day Rachel sees and feels the power growing, as she senses the quilt influencing her thoughts and actions. Much as Rachel's logical mind longs to deny the supernatural, the aura of evil coming from the quilt is terrifyingly real, and it seems to carry a sinister legacy into the lives of the people Rachel loves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 26, 2005
    ISBN9780060888992
    STITCHES IN TIME
    Author

    Barbara Michaels

    Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. After bestselling Gothic thrillers such as Greygallows and House of Many Shadows, Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She died in 2013.

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    • 4/5
      This book really took me by surprise! It was a bit slow and confusing to start out with, but as it went on I became hooked. There's a mix of a subtle romance developing along with some paranormal aspects that I personally love. But none of it was so far out there that the average romance reader wouldn't have also enjoyed this book. Not to mention an element of mystery for those types of readers!
    • 4/5
      I really enjoy the books Barbara Michaels writes. However, Stitches in Time just didn't work for me. I didn't like the main character who is lusting after the husband of a friend. I didn't like the woman that Karen (now called Kara) from Shattered Silk has become; her original kindness is now deeply buried. Kara's husband Mark was mostly a placeholder. I didn't like the woman that Cheryl has become -- fussy and scatterbrained. Tony is mostly there as a plot device. About the only people I really liked were Pat and Ruth from Ammie, Come Home and Adam, the lead male in this book. For some reason this book didn't give me the spooky thrills that most of Barbara Michaels's books do. Instead it felt distasteful and left me feeling let down. Sadly I can only recommend it for people who want to read everything by the author or who have run out of her better books.
    • 3/5
      Interesting story but the ending leaves something to be desired.
    • 3/5
      Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels is the final book in the Georgetown trilogy. Rachel Grant, a graduate student who is studying quilting traditions has taken a job in a vintage clothing shop. While she's there, three exquisite quilts are left there. They were stolen and one of them appears to be cursed.Most of the events take place during the holiday season at the home attached to the clothing boutique. Rachel, left to watch the house and the quilts, also falls prey to the worst of the curse. On top of that, she has a jealous, abusive boyfriend to contend with.While I enjoyed the descriptions of the quilt as well as the methods for creating them, I found the paranormal aspects of the plot mired in rather hackneyed gender stereotypes. I think even for the mid 1990s when this book was first published, I would have found them tiresome.
    • 2/5
      This book nearly bored me to death! It sounded so good, so I kept plugging away, waiting for the "good part" to happen. It never did. The ending was anti-climactic and the characters were dull. It did help me fall asleep at night, so it wasn't entirely useless.
    • 5/5
      May 16, 1999Stitches in TimeBarbara MichaelsA haunted object this time, instead of a house. Sort of a sequel to Ammie, Come Home - not a sequel to the story, really, but a reappearance of characters. Rachel works in a vintage clothing shop, and when a strange quilt turns up, she begins to feel spiritually invaded by another being, long dead – a bitter, angry spirit. Pat the professor and Ruth, the protagonist from “Ammie”, recognize what’s happening. The history of the quilt has to be learned before Rachel becomes dangerous.
    • 4/5
      Rachel is a customer/PhD. student who frequents a vintage clothing shop owned by Karen & Cheryl, sisters-in-law first introduced to the reader in Shattered Silk. The shop acquires a quilt which has a terrible effect on Rachel, apparent early on. The balance of the story revolves around attempts to reverse/banish the murderous impact it's having on her.I'm pretty skeptical about the paranormal, but this story made sense. There's light romance, but the other interpersonal relationships are just as interesting. Michaels' characters are so darned likable that it kept me reading.