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loudgls89's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Pregnancy
Moderate: Slavery, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Colonisation
kellynmadden's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
5.0
amies808's review against another edition
3.0
I think I need to just not read the first half of these from now on since there seems to be no editor involved whatsoever with these books. At this point I’m fairly tired of Claire and Jamie, particularly with Jamie and how perfect he is - he is a soldier, a printer, a (treasonous) writer, a leader, he can (spoiler alert... although of COURSE this would happen) fight a bear with his bare hands, he even knows how to knit! I get it: he’s great. There were some weird points in this book in particular that didn’t track with me, like Claire was raised by an archaeologist and also had a medical background but doesn’t know Latin?? She doesn’t get bored living in the wilderness?? (and then it turns out that she’s been attending to folks in the neighboring villages and such and we’ve just been stuck w only her and Jamie instead of meeting more personalities). I did like seeing Brianna and Roger so much more involved and probably would’ve just liked this to be told from one of their views; forget the weird narrator perspective change every five chapters!
I look forward to the show but I am glad to be done with this one!
I look forward to the show but I am glad to be done with this one!
holidaygrace's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
kimeggy's review against another edition
5.0
Yes!! Ik hou van deze serie en ik hou van deze boeken! De boeken zijn geschreven door Diana Gabaldon en ze heeft echt een prachtige set geschreven. De boeken nemen even de tijd om te lezen, aangezien het nogal wat pagina’s zijn, maar elke keer als ik weer een hoofdstuk aan het lezen was begaf ik mij in de wereld van Claire en Jamie Fraser. Van
beckyjmcc's review against another edition
3.0
Meh. It’s fun if you want to read a couple of good sex scenes, but everything else just felt.... weirdly wrong.
willowbiblio's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
“Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.”
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I really wanted to like this book so much more than I did. It took so long to read because I was kind of avoiding it. About 400 pages in I accepted that it wasn’t getting better and started skimming dozens of pages at a time.
One of my major critiques is that everything felt so contrived. The misunderstandings between many of the main characters would have been easily resolved in a few more words of conversation. It felt like reading entirely new characters who had lost the ability to communicate effectively.
Claire was also a lot more impetuous, and then passive in her dynamic with family. I didn’t believe any of them the way I did and book one and parts of book 3.
It’s so hard to invest in a story when you were hyper aware that you’re reading fiction. That’s how I felt throughout this book, sadly. I think a lot of the plot points could have been removed and we would have ended up in the same place. Roger was my favorite character, but he too was problematic.
I think I’ll take a pause and read a few non-Gabaldon books after this. 😬
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I really wanted to like this book so much more than I did. It took so long to read because I was kind of avoiding it. About 400 pages in I accepted that it wasn’t getting better and started skimming dozens of pages at a time.
One of my major critiques is that everything felt so contrived. The misunderstandings between many of the main characters would have been easily resolved in a few more words of conversation. It felt like reading entirely new characters who had lost the ability to communicate effectively.
Claire was also a lot more impetuous, and then passive in her dynamic with family. I didn’t believe any of them the way I did and book one and parts of book 3.
It’s so hard to invest in a story when you were hyper aware that you’re reading fiction. That’s how I felt throughout this book, sadly. I think a lot of the plot points could have been removed and we would have ended up in the same place. Roger was my favorite character, but he too was problematic.
I think I’ll take a pause and read a few non-Gabaldon books after this. 😬
francisca69's review against another edition
4.0
Claire, Jamie en de rest van hun gang maakten weer heel veel mee wat Diana Gabaldon altijd heerlijk weet te beschrijven.
Heerlijk boek!
Heerlijk boek!
catscallon's review against another edition
5.0
This was my favourite one so far, thrilling and interesting.