A review by bookish_bry
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I liked this book at the start and was ready for some intrigue and internal conflict as our main character dealt with being a complete fish out of water, but we honestly didn't see much of that and what we did fell flat. To be fair to it, I think it may have been advertised to me as something it wasn't meant to be. There were some parts I liked, but the length and the parts that I didn't like made it a hard read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Violence, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Sexual content, Rape, Vomit, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

The love interest does at one point physically beat the main character mostly off screen. This is forgiven and rationalized away.