The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient 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 is catapulted 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 love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Strange and rambling but thoroughly enjoyable. On to watch the show!
0DNF 200 of 600 pages in. Ridiculously long and slow, I hate DNFing books but this one would have taken forever to finish and for what?? I was skimming entire pages and realized 50% was non-plot moving description, uninteresting tidbits and random thoughts. I have a very high threshold for this kind of storytelling and whoooooof I couldn’t bear it. Blessings to those that embark on this journey
0Though many surprising twists and turns and unexpected happenings of violence, I enjoyed this book. Like I said~ violent and graphic at places, but I had a really hard time putting it down. Not a quick read at all, and when I realized at the end that everything had happened over one year, it seems overly action-packed.
But it wasn't a hard read, other than perhaps keeping some of the plots straight (why are they alone in the woods trying to get to somewhere AGAIN?). I can see myself picking it up to re-read a couple of years from now, after I've forgotten about the violence/remember it as more mellow.
Loved the characters and thought they were well done!
I won't go so far as to say it was cliche, but there were a number of times throughout the book when I thought 'well OF COURSE it was him!' or just a sarcastic 'really? didn't see that coming at ALL'.
Will be looking into the sequels.
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