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The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

9 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

brownieboo's review against another edition

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

alreads13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Stalking, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, War, Blood, Body horror, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Genocide

readwithzoe_'s review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Racism, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Alcohol, Sexual content, War, Murder, Gun violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Slavery

sundayray's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Trafficking, and War

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? Yes

2.5

I find the Outlander series really hard to rate. They're interesting, but they're way too long. The Fiery Cross could easily have been 400 pages and not have lost anything, instead of the bloated 980 it came out to. I find the series to feel more like a book you're required to read for a school assignment instead of something you pick up for fun. It's a slog and not a fun one at that. Like the rest of the series, this book has unnecessary and unnecessarily graphic content that could have been left on the cutting room floor without detracting from the story (it would be an improvement if certain scenes were left on the cutting room floor as they add nothing to the plot but graphic depictions of violence and body horror). 

I don't like Brianna, and she's becoming a very major character as the series progresses. Same with Roger. Makes it hard to read a book that is both unnecessarily long and unnecessarily graphic when half of the book involves characters you don't really care for. 

If you like long, hard, complicated slogs with characters you don't like that feel like trying to climb a mountain during mud season, this book is perfect for you. I couldn't wait for it to end and was eagerly counting down the pages until the end. 2.5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Vomit, Physical abuse, Murder, Slavery, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Racism, Suicide, and Gore

Minor: Animal death

sarahfhp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

sonia_reading's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.0

I took me a whole year to finish Drums of Autumn, and I told myself I would read one Outlander book each year after. But it’s been two years since then. The only reason I finished The Fiery Cross in 2 weeks was because it was a library audiobook and I could increase the speed.  This was my first Outlander series on audiobook, and I wasn’t a huge fan. 

The Fiery Cross is basically Drums of Autumn part 2, it just continues the plot and nothing happens! 55 hours/1440 pages of nothing new. The plot itself is also problematic. There are racist descriptions of Native Americans and Black enslaved people. It’s unclear to me if it’s supposed to be the characters or just Diana Gabaldon. It doesn’t matter what the reason, it’s there and full of white saviorism. It was such a slog, and definitely the last Outlander book I’ll read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape

kaylee1957's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Grief