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From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.
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I was set to give this one 3-3.5 stars, as there were eye-rolly parts and overall it felt like the story was slow and never ending. And then I arrived at part six, and was blown away. I can't say the eye-rolly parts are necessarily the fault of the author - I think speeding through the first three books in just a couple of months is the culprit. It may be time to take a small break from the series to read something else for a bit. That said, I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
0Listened to this on audio, Davina Porter again is just a fantastic narrator!
Liked it overall, thought it was a little weaker than the first, about on par with the second.
I don't want to have to censor my thoughts on this, so that's why the whole thing is in spoiler mode.
Quick thoughts:
- So both Jamie and Claire are like twenty years older but don't really act like it. It was easy to forget sometimes that Claire is supposed to be almost 50 now.
- Really liked Lord John Grey, will be perusing that spin-off series
- Did NOT get what happened at the end with either the Reverend or Mr. Willoughby: I understand that everyone thought the killer was W, but that it turned out to be R, but I don't understand R's reasons for doing it? Was he just effing crazy? And W's big speech also made me feel like he was trying to say something else but it went over my head. Probably should have listened to it again.
- Honestly the last 3 or 4 discs of the book were just CRAZY, when the shit hit the fan.
- How the heck did Claire and Jamie hear Brianna via Margaret?? The whole voodoo aspect felt forced to me, like Gabaldon had this idea to do something with magic and sort of shoved it in here, almost randomly. Will need to think on this.
- Totally fine with time travel, and with Claire's sort of sixth sense/intuition, but doing the magic that Geilis does and the voodoo sort of magic was jarring for me.
- Why was Bri in the fancy old-fashioned dress when Claire went through the rocks? Was Bri hoping to go through too, unbeknownst to Claire?
- Totally saw that Geilis would be the Mistress Abernathy, about a minute before the reveal. Maybe something in the language was giving it away, or I just somehow picked up on foreshadowing?
- Would have liked the narrative to go back to Brianna and Roger, find out what happened with them in the present day! I mean, what ever happened with that burned picture? Maybe Geilis did some magic that brought Bri back in time against her will??
- Claire supposedly gives Ian a big dose of penicillin (or was at least planning on it), I assume via needles like with herself and Jamie, but wouldn't this totally clue Ian in on Claire being a witch/time traveler? Was this a plot hole or something I misunderstood??
- Mr. Willoughby does acupuncture on Jamie like once or twice and suddenly he is never again sea-sick?
- Felt that the glimpses we saw into Jamie's life during the twenty years apart were not enough--want to know more about that time.
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