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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
I read Diana Gabaldon's "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallow's Eve" in the anthology [b:Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love|7841656|Songs of Love and Death All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love (Kushiel's Legacy #1.5; Phèdre's Trilogy, #1.5; The Dresden Files, #11.5)|George R.R. Martin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1287955074s/7841656.jpg|10935124]. This was the story I bought the book for, the one I couldn't wait to read, because Gabaldon promised it was about Roger's parents. I was disappointed to find it last in the book, but deteremined to read the darn book in order. Now I'm glad I did, because everything else (even the really good ones) would be a disappointment after Gabaldon's story which caused my heart to beat faster and raised actual goosebumps up and down my arms and legs and spine. I don't know if the effect would have been as great if I hadn't read all her other books, but at this point it really doesn't matter. This story was truly heart-wrenching, very palpably about lost love, but also about secret, wonderful truths no one (but the reader and Diana and God) will ever know.
OMG. Diana is a master. I have so many questions now, like when are Uncle Buck and Roger?! Why didn't Roger tell Jerry that he was his son?! Is Frank an idiot? Did he not recognize the family tree in book one? And what will happen if Roger and Uncle Buck are in the wrong time and they can't get back?! Omg omg omg. MOBI needs to come out yesterday!!!
I loved reading it but it was way too short for the amount of action that happened
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
Ja då sitter man och gråter lite såhär på en söndag.
I didn't expect a novella less than 100 pages long would manage to make me cry, especially when I already knew (or thought I knew) the fate of the protagonist.
Somehow, Diana Gabaldon can get me emotionally invested in a character who's been dead for years even before the beginning of Book#1, so much so that I found myself sobbing loudly over the ending of "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows".
This is a masterfully crafted, very short story to read with caution, only when you have the privacy and the mental space to fall apart about that heart-wrenching ending.
Somehow, Diana Gabaldon can get me emotionally invested in a character who's been dead for years even before the beginning of Book#1, so much so that I found myself sobbing loudly over the ending of "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows".
This is a masterfully crafted, very short story to read with caution, only when you have the privacy and the mental space to fall apart about that heart-wrenching ending.
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Note: Why is this novella 8.5, published 2 years before 8? Shouldn't it be 7.5 part 2 or something? It makes no sense to this type A chick. *grin*
In chapter 21 of book 7 Claire and Roger have a conversation about his parents, both having died during WWII. She tells Roger that whatever he's been told about his parents death isn't exactly how it happened or true. But that's it. That's all Gabaldon gives us before continuing on with the present story line. What?! We need to know. What really happened to Roger's parents if not what he has been told? Either Gabaldon heard from enough fans about it or she herself was curious enough about how they really died that she wrote this shorter short about the story of Jerry and Dolly MacKenzie, Roger's parents.
Jerry MacKenzie is a pilot with the RAF during WWII and is approached by a Captain Frank Randall with MI6 to do a special ops mission for the war effort. Yes, Frank is Frank - Claire's Frank. Gabaldon is tying all the characters together is some pretty interesting ways. Jerry hesitantly accepts the mission and ends up 200 years in the past but doesn't understand it - the how or the why. Trying to get back to his present life that includes his wife, Dolly, and his wee lad Roger, eludes him until two strangers track him down and help him back to the stones. Meanwhile Dolly has had to find a job and move on with her life. Roger is two years old and the war is still raging between Germany and the world. During an air raid Dolly catches Jerry's eye above a crush of people and presses toward him. But tragedy strikes and in one instant Roger loses both parents.
Really Gabaldon has created some really rich and deep characters and could do successful spin offs for years to come. I'm not sure about series as she has attempted with Lord John Grey (which I haven't read any of those) but certainly supplemental spin offs.
In chapter 21 of book 7 Claire and Roger have a conversation about his parents, both having died during WWII. She tells Roger that whatever he's been told about his parents death isn't exactly how it happened or true. But that's it. That's all Gabaldon gives us before continuing on with the present story line. What?! We need to know. What really happened to Roger's parents if not what he has been told? Either Gabaldon heard from enough fans about it or she herself was curious enough about how they really died that she wrote this shorter short about the story of Jerry and Dolly MacKenzie, Roger's parents.
Jerry MacKenzie is a pilot with the RAF during WWII and is approached by a Captain Frank Randall with MI6 to do a special ops mission for the war effort. Yes, Frank is Frank - Claire's Frank. Gabaldon is tying all the characters together is some pretty interesting ways. Jerry hesitantly accepts the mission and ends up 200 years in the past but doesn't understand it - the how or the why. Trying to get back to his present life that includes his wife, Dolly, and his wee lad Roger, eludes him until two strangers track him down and help him back to the stones. Meanwhile Dolly has had to find a job and move on with her life. Roger is two years old and the war is still raging between Germany and the world. During an air raid Dolly catches Jerry's eye above a crush of people and presses toward him. But tragedy strikes and in one instant Roger loses both parents.
Really Gabaldon has created some really rich and deep characters and could do successful spin offs for years to come. I'm not sure about series as she has attempted with Lord John Grey (which I haven't read any of those) but certainly supplemental spin offs.