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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
This book has given me so many feelings. I had to take breaks during my reading bc I would get too emotional. At one point I waited a week before I touched the book again. So good.
This book is wonderful! I think it's definitely the best in the series since the first one. In some ways it's almost better because the characters have grown and matured and by this point I as the reader know them so much better.
The Fiery Cross was hard to get through, and Diana Gabaldon really got back on track with this one. The pace and melodrama mixed in with a factual historical novel about the Revolutionary War makes this engaging, educational, and above all an entertaining and romantic read.
Jamie and Claire....I just love Jamie, and that's all there is to it. At this point in the series he's in his early fifties and he's still absolutely adorable, and very human. I think he rates right up there with Rhett Butler and Mr. Darcy. Claire's as feisty and practical as ever. I love that they have a mature, married love which is rarely shown in books and movies.
Roger and Bree and Jem really grow as a family. I love seeing them together. Roger gets ordained as a minister and really holds the community together when they are dividing between Loyalists and Americans. I like watching his strength where it's not physical fighting.
I really loved Fergus's arc. I've loved him since he was an eleven year old street urchin. Seeing him as a grown man in his thirties with a wife and children is something rare in books. Again, you get to see him grow. He gets very depressed and tries to take his life because he can't support his family with one hand. I found it very very touching.
But what really got to me was Ian. He's really come into his own as a character and I've loved him since he was introduced as a fifteen year old following after his uncle Jamie. I think his absence was sorely missing in The Fiery Cross. Bree and him have a wonderful interlude in the woods and he tells everything that happened between him and his Indian wife he lost due to several miscarriages. Well, I'm not ashamed to say that I may have cried a little, and I as a rule am not the type that gets weepy during books and movies. I think Ian could be the lead character in his own book, he's that magnetic. I hope he gets a happy ending in the next book.
All in all, I give it my highest recommendation. DG says she has written these books in a way that can be read out of order, but I wouldn't recommend it. After spending years and thousands of pages with these characters, it's a real treat to see them age and mature and grow together and grow apart.
The Fiery Cross was hard to get through, and Diana Gabaldon really got back on track with this one. The pace and melodrama mixed in with a factual historical novel about the Revolutionary War makes this engaging, educational, and above all an entertaining and romantic read.
Jamie and Claire....I just love Jamie, and that's all there is to it. At this point in the series he's in his early fifties and he's still absolutely adorable, and very human. I think he rates right up there with Rhett Butler and Mr. Darcy. Claire's as feisty and practical as ever. I love that they have a mature, married love which is rarely shown in books and movies.
Roger and Bree and Jem really grow as a family. I love seeing them together. Roger gets ordained as a minister and really holds the community together when they are dividing between Loyalists and Americans. I like watching his strength where it's not physical fighting.
I really loved Fergus's arc. I've loved him since he was an eleven year old street urchin. Seeing him as a grown man in his thirties with a wife and children is something rare in books. Again, you get to see him grow. He gets very depressed and tries to take his life because he can't support his family with one hand. I found it very very touching.
But what really got to me was Ian. He's really come into his own as a character and I've loved him since he was introduced as a fifteen year old following after his uncle Jamie. I think his absence was sorely missing in The Fiery Cross. Bree and him have a wonderful interlude in the woods and he tells everything that happened between him and his Indian wife he lost due to several miscarriages. Well, I'm not ashamed to say that I may have cried a little, and I as a rule am not the type that gets weepy during books and movies. I think Ian could be the lead character in his own book, he's that magnetic. I hope he gets a happy ending in the next book.
All in all, I give it my highest recommendation. DG says she has written these books in a way that can be read out of order, but I wouldn't recommend it. After spending years and thousands of pages with these characters, it's a real treat to see them age and mature and grow together and grow apart.
adventurous
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
The FEEEEEEELSS. I'll be back with a decent review later. 2AM, need sleep.
Ok, so I really liked this one, compared to the lazy start of Fiery, this one definitely engaged me sooner. There were some things that I liked, and some that I didn't. That one thing that happens to Claire that people don't like, I actually don't mind.. In the sense that, well it makes sense, right? It isn't far fetched at all, I just wished she would have been shown a bit less strong I guess, felt to me she avoided the issue by clinging to the rational side of it. Also, about the purple flower, I kneeeew she was a bitch from the moment they stepped on the Ridge. I was torn between Mrs Bug and Allan, though. Just call me Sherlock hehe
Ok, so I really liked this one, compared to the lazy start of Fiery, this one definitely engaged me sooner. There were some things that I liked, and some that I didn't. That one thing that happens to Claire that people don't like, I actually don't mind.. In the sense that, well it makes sense, right? It isn't far fetched at all, I just wished she would have been shown a bit less strong I guess, felt to me she avoided the issue by clinging to the rational side of it. Also, about the purple flower, I kneeeew she was a bitch from the moment they stepped on the Ridge. I was torn between Mrs Bug and Allan, though. Just call me Sherlock hehe
adventurous
emotional
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:
Yes
took me a good while but oh my god was it worth it. still processing 10/10 would recommend
Was better, than book 5 "The Fiery Cross" but somehow Dabaldon put basically almost all the big events at the last 300 pages of the book, which is VERY nerve-wracking and means many emotions at the same time.
Nevertheless I'm going to read the next one, because it has become exciting again.
Nevertheless I'm going to read the next one, because it has become exciting again.