AUTHOR: Diana Gabaldon
STARTED: December 21, 2014
FINISHED: December 31, 2014
PAGES: 850
GENRE: Fiction
FIRST SENTENCE: People disappear all the time.
SUMMARY: [From BN] Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Her
husband is two centuries away, she is related to her lover's mortal
enemy, and her neighbors think she's a witch. In this unforgettable
novel of time travel, Diana Gabaldon fuses wry, modern sensibility with
the drama, passion, and violence of eighteenth century as she tells the
story of one daring woman and the man who loves her.
THOUGHTS: I was kind of shocked to find that this book did not hold up as well as I thought it would. Outlander is and continues to be my favorite fiction series, but I found myself noticing more issues with this book than I remember. The drama felt a bit more forced, and the writing came across as a touch sophomoric. That said, nothing can stop my love of Claire and Jaime. I don't care if this book is not as awesome as I remember, I still love reading it every time I pick it up.
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
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