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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Love this serious but the language around the slave characters was incredibly jarring.
A bit like a Wizard of Oz fever-dream. You were there, and you were there, and Geilis Duncan was there...and the kid we duped for information before the battle was there...
I truly will never give up on this series, although a friend warned me it gets too crazy to be believable. Gabaldon is a fantastic writer who creates terrifically memorable characters, and I have a never-ending curiosity about what will happen to them. And besides that, I find everything that happens believable, if a little insane. But the story would be no fun if things didn't get a little insane, so I find that dash of insanity entirely necessary. The scope of this series is becoming a little mind-boggling with this one, but it's only increasing my respect for Gabaldon exponentially. She handles all the plot twists expertly.
So in conclusion, everyone should read this series. I am making myself wait a bit before continuing with the fourth one since I will eventually run out of these books altogether. (Luckily, she's writing at least one more.)
So in conclusion, everyone should read this series. I am making myself wait a bit before continuing with the fourth one since I will eventually run out of these books altogether. (Luckily, she's writing at least one more.)
proud member of the geillis duncan hate club
I can not find words to describe how much I love the outlander series and how amazing Claire's and jamie's journey is.
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Again, another outstanding story that has it all. Love, intrigue, suspense, betrayal. You name it, it's in this story. I'm looking forward to beginning the next book.
Listened 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.
Liked it overall, thought it was a little weaker than the first, about on par with the second.
Spoiler
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.