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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

9 reviews

lazulisky's review

adventurous funny inspiring slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, Racism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

meilanon's review

adventurous funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, Racism, Trafficking, Murder, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Suicide

moonmadden's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Great story, but the age of this book really shows in the continuously "playfully (and sometimes not-so-playfully) racist" descriptions of a secondary character, and lazy writing of another character who has gotten fat since the previous books, which is used as a negative character trait. The TV series did a pretty good job of leaving the weirdness out while keeping most of the story in place, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Violence, Slavery, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racial slurs

irishbelle10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

1.5

This one was tough for me to get through. Some parts I liked, but there were too many things that left a bitter taste in my mouth. The racism was bad.

Every mention of Yi Tien Cho using the C slur? Yikes. Frank saying some racist stuff? Oof. The treatment of the enslaved people? Horrifying. But, I was surprised at the part at the sale of enslaved people when Claire freaked out but acknowledged that she wasn’t doing it for any of the people being sold, but for herself. It’s a startlingly modern moment, but an important one I think, cause Claire isn’t really an ally like they tried to make her in the show, and this thought really reflects that. Anyways.

Jamie, to my horror,

sexually assaulted Geneva (and yes it was assault because she told him to stop and he didn’t. Her blackmailing him is bad, yes, but two wrongs don’t make a right),

and I was incredibly angry and am still not over it. And the fatphobia in this book became honestly unbearable. Among other things,

telling your daughter not to get fat in your farewell letter to her before you go back into the past forever?

Good god. So, safe to say this is my least favorite of the books by a mile. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Death, Violence, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Racism, and Slavery

tupsukorva's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Medical content, Physical abuse, Blood, Sexual content, Violence, and Rape

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Vomit, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident, Excrement, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Child death, and Infertility

lopanch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

Voyager is one of my favorite books of the Outlander series. The book is so full of action, you forget it’s almost 900 pages. It’s an exhilarating read from start to finish, a love story for the ages, and (above all) a touching tale of many kinds of loyalty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Slavery

suz_n_van's review

adventurous challenging tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, and Slavery

Moderate: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

johannab's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit