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The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

21 reviews

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Another wonderful book in the Outlander series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, Violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death, Vomit, War, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Gore, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Torture

Minor: Rape

aheinicke27's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious relaxing tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Listening to this audiobook within my 21 day check out window was a feat made possible only by increasing the playback speed to 1.5 and a week off for spring break. As with all books in this series, the plot moves slow, which is kind of the point of reading them. Before getting into the slow flow of the story, I felt frustrated at the beginning when 7 hours of the book had gone by and they were still within the same day of the attempted weddings at River Run! As I continued listening however, and re-immersed myself  within the story world, I felt less bothered by the pacing. Either things moved faster, or I grew content moving slower. Overall, I enjoyed the growth of Jamie and Claire’s family and Rodger and Brianna’s relationship, as well as the various political intrigues and mysteries that the Fraser/Mackenzie’s find themselves involved in. I enjoyed this season of the show — even though there were some difficult, heavy parts — and liked the book even more for its level of detail and connection between all of the plot points. I once again found myself not wanting the book to end when I reached the conclusion (one day before it was due 😅) and look forward to reading the next book in the series when the library loan comes in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Medical content, and Violence

sytaylor's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Medical content, and Physical abuse

irishbelle10's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.0

These books are getting longer and longer without any discernible reason why. This one felt like trudging through knee-deep water. I did enjoy some parts, but at this point I’m mostly just trying to catch up to where the show is before S7 premieres. I feel like I’ve invested too much time to give up now, so onto the next one…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and War

kpg244's review against another edition

relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

This felt like reading someone’s diary. There would chapters that just went over the characters day to day life with one chapter with something interesting to break them up. It took me months to finish this book because it was so slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Slavery

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Medical content

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Este libro es más pausado que los anteriores, y eso me venido bien, que estoy leyendo los libros seguidos y este ha sido un descanso.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, Murder, Death, Rape, and Sexual assault

sschmidt1300's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Death, Slavery, War, Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, Murder, and Pregnancy

devlev7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I’ve been loving reading the Outlander series. The books are slow but worth it for the adventure and the descriptive, thorough language. In this one, I particularly enjoyed the lengthy details of day to day life on Fraser’s Ridge. It made me want to learn to make beeswax candles and dye clothes and

make syringes out of snake fangs.

I will say, I was wary of the way Gabaldon would approach writing about Native folks and enslaved people in 18th century North Carolina, and I have finished the book still feeling like I’m not sure what I feel about that aspect. It certainly wasn’t the worst approach it could’ve been. She neither ignored the obvious issues of racism and colonization altogether, nor condoned them. But some of the language and plot points were a bit tactless in my opinion. The non-white characters lacked depth or true feature in the plot, with momentary exceptions. The violence of slavery and colonization were lightly addressed, but not witnessed by any of the characters, nor were they much discussed.

I was also a bit disturbed in the evolution of the relationship between Roger and Brianna following their marriage. Brianna is such a dynamic, strong character, and it seemed hard to believe she would defer so much to her husband, or allow others to go to him for final decisions about their family, even when being in the 1700s.

All in all though, I still very much enjoyed the book, the plot twists, the tender moments, and appreciate the depth of research that must have gone into writing it. Looking forward to the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Slavery, War, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Medical content, and Animal death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Child death, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Violence, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Colonisation

infjill's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pregnancy, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Racism, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Chronic illness, Confinement, Medical trauma, Death, Murder, Slavery, War, Blood, Bullying, Child death, and Grief

brownieboo's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Child death, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual content, Murder, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death, Terminal illness, Sexism, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Gore, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Ableism, Body horror, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Addiction, Rape, and Grief