Testimonials

Time and the River is able to easily entice readers to engage in an intense roller coaster mental ride. Readers are tempted to immerse personally in the story with their own experiences, parallels and contemplations of profound soul-searching possibilities. In an enrapturing simplicity of style, Rosetta Khalideen presents a multifaceted love story and jolts the reader into ongoing profound literary thoughts and introspection. I recommend that you read the novel and mentally/literally continue writing Time and the River!

Time and the River is a must read. This is a novel about family, first love, courage and loyalty. Present and past events are knitted together to create a real life story with which readers can identify.

Time and the River is an extremely compelling story which takes the reader on a journey of reflection and reality. The writer’s vivid description of the places in the book will bring back memories especially for those readers who may be from that part of the world. The story is so captivating that it grasps and holds the reader’s curiosity. This book is definitely a ‘page turner’. Rosetta Khalideen has excelled in her literary skills in this book. Definitely a ‘must read’ for lovers of romance.

Time and the River is a good example of the romance genre. It is a story of intense attraction, loss and subsequent longing. The book effectively evokes a sense of place through descriptions of local foods, flowers, birds and landscape. What makes the book memorable is its departure from the conventional ending of the romance genre.

I really enjoyed reading Time and the River. The story reminded me of many places in Guyana with which I am familiar. I found the book very interesting and I would highly recommend it to readers, particularly those who come from Guyana and the Caribbean.

Time and the River is a book many readers will definitely want to include in their collection of favorite books. The interesting incidents of deep love, broken promises and second chances are cleverly portrayed by the author so that the reader has no choice but to pursue the story relentlessly to find the outcomes of the complicated situations. The dramatic ending will leave many readers asking the question: Why?

In the milieu of religious and cultural traditional adherence along with socio-economic disparities, “TIME and the RIVER” encapsulates the passionate love affair of two teenagers desirous of breaking the boundaries of established taboos. However, their utmost intention of ceremoniously being a marital couple is shattered by unconventional circumstance, creating a permanent wedge in their relationship. Forty years later, Abe unexpectedly with immense courage, appears at Janet’s place of employ, excruciatingly expresses his unwavering love for her and humbly requests she spends a day with him to fulfil his last wish before his demise. The lost love is rekindled with scrupulous discretion and fidelity. Thousands of readers can vividly conceptualize and emphatically relate to the experiences of the leading characters, and any enthusiastic reader wanting to vicariously experience a dramatic twist in the plot of a novel will find “TIME and the RIVER” a must read. Showered appreciation is in order on the vivid and skillful manipulative imagination of Rosetta Khalideen in assembling the various elements of a novel into a cohesive masterpiece of love and conflict bubbling with intrigue, drama, passion, grip, suspense, intensity, empathy — fast-paced and is a page-turner. Rosetta must be commended for her persistent discipline and remarkable drive for the completion of this inspiring first novel and her fan base is eagerly awaiting her next adventure in the not-too-distant future.