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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3,5 Sterne
Outlander - Feuer und Stein war für mich ein toller Roman mit guter Story und interessanten Charakteren. Leider hat es sich manchmal (besonders am Ende) zu sehr gezogen, was bestimmt nicht zuletzt daran liegt das ich die ungekürzte Fassung gelesen habe. Dennoch freue ich mich auf den 2. Teil :)
Outlander - Feuer und Stein war für mich ein toller Roman mit guter Story und interessanten Charakteren. Leider hat es sich manchmal (besonders am Ende) zu sehr gezogen, was bestimmt nicht zuletzt daran liegt das ich die ungekürzte Fassung gelesen habe. Dennoch freue ich mich auf den 2. Teil :)
adventurous
inspiring
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:
No
Second attempt at reading, find it easier now I’ve seen the series. Sometimes it drags, but her world building is quite good.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Really well written! Fascinating storyline. Do I think it needed to be THAT long? No. Slightly unmotivating to continue with the series. But maybe that’s the point lol. It was just hard to keep track of story lines with how things would be drawn out. Good plot overall though! Appreciated the historical bits, felt like I got to learn a bit as it went ! Watching season 1 on Netflix now muahaha
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
Oh lord. I feel like I can’t read a book this long without giving a piece of my mind after. I read it as an ebook and audiobook and the audiobook narrator was delightful. She added SO much and is probably the reason I finished it.
It would be easier to describe what DOESN’T happen to Claire and Jamie in this book. If I were to rate this on the first 35% or so, I’d give it 5 stars in a heartbeat. It was immediately interesting and fast-paced, with well-developed characters and fun dialogue. And I think it could have ended somewhere around 300ish pages, because it goes so downhill from there.
Things that happen (mostly after that point) that didn’t need to happen:
- Claire is married in present-day which creates unnecessary moral conflict in her feelings for Jamie (like honestly she didn’t need to be married for the story to happen)
- the villain, Captain Randall, is a direct ancestor of Claire’s present-day husband
- rape/attempted rape
- Jamie and Claire have sex 842 times
- Jamie beats Claire for “disobeying him” but it’s chill because he was beaten as a kid, never mind that she’s a grown woman
- Jamie doesn’t speak to his sister for years bc he thinks his sister had a rape baby/he acts like it’s her fault, and then won’t fecking listen when she tries to explain what actually happened since he never bothered to ask (seriously Jamie sucked in this scene)
- Jamie’s sister gives birth and we get to experience…. All that entails, including visceral descriptions of how her breasts feel while pregnant
- (honestly the relationship between Jenny and Jamie confuses me and weirds me out)
- Jamie gets tortured and abused by Captain Randall, the only apparently gay character (ahh the 90’s)
- a man with mental disabilities is given the role of “stupid, carnal, evil jailer” and is described with crass language (ahh the 90’s pt 2)
- Claire one-ups Captain Randall by telling him she knows the “hour of his death” mwahaha so badass (who gives a shit? Also she ends up being wrong)
- Claire fights a wolf bare handed and wins
- Claire gets Jamie’s fever to break by uhhhhhh drugging him and pretending to be Captain Randall???
- Jamie doesn’t bat an eye about the above
- also he’s like “good news my sexual trauma is gone. Sex now?”
- a monk tells Claire her bigamy is A-OK
- Claire is magically not barren anymore in the last 2 sentences of the book, and there it abruptly ends
I read the summary of where book 2 picks up and I’m honestly not at all interested in it. I can’t believe Claire would leave Jamie to raise their child alone.
It would be easier to describe what DOESN’T happen to Claire and Jamie in this book. If I were to rate this on the first 35% or so, I’d give it 5 stars in a heartbeat. It was immediately interesting and fast-paced, with well-developed characters and fun dialogue. And I think it could have ended somewhere around 300ish pages, because it goes so downhill from there.
Things that happen (mostly after that point) that didn’t need to happen:
- Claire is married in present-day which creates unnecessary moral conflict in her feelings for Jamie (like honestly she didn’t need to be married for the story to happen)
- the villain, Captain Randall, is a direct ancestor of Claire’s present-day husband
- rape/attempted rape
- Jamie and Claire have sex 842 times
- Jamie beats Claire for “disobeying him” but it’s chill because he was beaten as a kid, never mind that she’s a grown woman
- Jamie doesn’t speak to his sister for years bc he thinks his sister had a rape baby/he acts like it’s her fault, and then won’t fecking listen when she tries to explain what actually happened since he never bothered to ask (seriously Jamie sucked in this scene)
- Jamie’s sister gives birth and we get to experience…. All that entails, including visceral descriptions of how her breasts feel while pregnant
- (honestly the relationship between Jenny and Jamie confuses me and weirds me out)
- Jamie gets tortured and abused by Captain Randall, the only apparently gay character (ahh the 90’s)
- a man with mental disabilities is given the role of “stupid, carnal, evil jailer” and is described with crass language (ahh the 90’s pt 2)
- Claire one-ups Captain Randall by telling him she knows the “hour of his death” mwahaha so badass (who gives a shit? Also she ends up being wrong)
- Claire fights a wolf bare handed and wins
- Claire gets Jamie’s fever to break by uhhhhhh drugging him and pretending to be Captain Randall???
- Jamie doesn’t bat an eye about the above
- also he’s like “good news my sexual trauma is gone. Sex now?”
- a monk tells Claire her bigamy is A-OK
- Claire is magically not barren anymore in the last 2 sentences of the book, and there it abruptly ends
I read the summary of where book 2 picks up and I’m honestly not at all interested in it. I can’t believe Claire would leave Jamie to raise their child alone.
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
I love this show so I decided to give the book series a try and I'm so glad I did! If you're like me and really like it when a show stays true to the books, then this is a series for you. I'm pretty sure they just pulled the script directly from the books! We'll see if that stays true with future books/seasons, but I'm choosing to remain hopeful!
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Perfection. 6/5 stars.