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callie_pearce's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit
Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Colonisation, Death, War, Child death, and Death of parent
lilyalsup's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual harassment
katmystery's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
For the first 40%, this was an engaging historical fic, albeit a bit slow, about a witty former WWII army nurse who finds herself brought back in time to 1740s Scotland. Then, when the romance plot started, suddenly it was all about her 18th century love interest, a character who Gabaldon endlessly romanticized despite his highly abusive and controlling behavior. When I wasn’t horrified by Jamie, I was bored by hundreds upon hundreds of pages of conversations and events that added nothing to the plot or character development, and I quickly grew to be so irritated by the narrator that I just wanted it to end. In addition to all of this, all the women who are sexually assaulted in this book (and there are a lot) are blamed for the assault, and the so-called “feminist” narrator does this, too. She’s barely more progressive than people from the 1700s; for half the book, she doesn’t care about anything but the abusive love interest.
I only finished this because of the sunk cost fallacy. 2 stars for the historical aspects, which were well done.
Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Torture
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Pedophilia
frantically's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
I really enjoyed this! I listened to it as an audiobook and the parts that would've probably been tedious in book form still worked well that way. I'm up to season 5? 6? now and I really just wanted to go back to the Claire and Jamie of season 1 for some time <3
I took multiple breaks and listened to whole other audiobooks during this and I think that's how I didn't end up hating it 🙈 It is very long (obviously) but it is also very good. The writing is excellent and Claire is such a good main character.
Would recommend, even if you've already watched the series :) I still enjoyed it a lot
Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content
Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, and War
Minor: Child death, Grief, Death, Abortion, Animal death, and Death of parent
sem1995's review against another edition
The way rape and domestic violence were portrayed left me feeling gross, and the romanticization of abuse as dominance was something I couldn't overlook.
Although the plot showed promise initially, it eventually lost its depth, focusing mainly on Jamie and Claire's sexual dynamics post-marriage, at the expense of emotional complexity and substantial narrative development.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse
bellam27's review
Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual violence
deutschemausi's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and War
theyannibannireads's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Read this book before right after season one of the show came out and was disappointed it wasn't like the show. But now that I'm a bit more of a mature reader I really liked this book, it definitely got me out of a funk and now I'm excited to read the rest of the series. Definitely got me into historical fiction too.
Graphic: Sexism, Rape, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and War
thulanileigh's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, War, and Sexual content
sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander: A Novel (Outlander, Book 1) (p. 212). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
📖Genres: romance, romantasy, adult, adventure, historical romance, historical, fantasy
📚Page Count: 850
🎧Audiobook Length: 32h 38min
👩🏾🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️ - 2/5
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is an 800+ page historical romance that has action, spice, time travel, and adventure. Claire is a nurse from 1945 and she's thrusted back in time a few hundred years, where she has to survive until she figures out how to get home. It's here that she meets Jamie, a Scott who wants to show her a love so true. At least she won't have to try and survive alone, with him by her side. I didn't love this story, I barely liked it. Between the weird and slow pacing and the threat of rape being constantly thrown around, by the time the book was over I was exhausted and annoyed from the read.
I didn't like the book's pacing. The book started off really slow, I'd say it took about 2 to 3 hours of listening to the audiobook for the story to actually start moving forward. Once the story started to move, things got interesting and I became invested. Then, I'd say 200 pages into the action, things slowed down to a crawl and I stopped caring about the story. After about 150 pages of the slow crawl, things picked up again. Do you see where I'm going with this? This strange pacing continued throughout the entire novel.
(Trigger Warning - rape, sexual assault)
The threat of rape was constant from the moment the main character went back in time. I understand that your female main character went back in time, that doesn't mean you have to have every other man she encounters try to physically & sexually attack her. I honestly should have counted the amount of times Claire was threated with physical or sexual harm by a man, there are a few times where she actually IS attacked. Claire apparently isn't the only one who's in danger of being sexually assaulted.
(Trigger Warning - rape, sexual assault, drugging)
Unfortunately, it gets worse. Now,
(Trigger Warning - physical abuse, domestic abuse)
The spice fluctuated. At first I was into it but then there was this strange scene where
This book also ends in the
⭐️⭐️ - 2/5
I listened to this for free on the library app, hoopladigital.com
Graphic: Cursing, Ableism, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence, Vomit, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and War