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hooliaquoolia 's review for:
Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
These truly are bonkers, bonkers books, and thick bonkers books at that, spending hundreds of pages on things that ultimately have no real consequence just to have an excuse to put in a few rapes here and there and call it a plot. Really, the main rules of this series seem to be "Jack Randall can appear anywhere at any time for any reason and do anything he wants" and "When in doubt, insert a rape." I really have trouble with the latter. No matter how much I enjoy traipsing around the eighteenth century with a semi-modern narrator, I really can't reconcile myself to the author's approach to rape and sexual assault, and how it undercuts so much of the main relationships that drive this series. It really dampens my enjoyment of the series, knowing how much sexual violence has become a part of the characters themselves and yet only seems to be brought up when it can be used for the plot.
Didn't enjoy this as much as its predecessor, perhaps because I finally realized what I'm reading is a soap opera in a kilt. Which isn't a bad thing if that's what you want to spend 900 pages on! But I've overdosed for now.
Didn't enjoy this as much as its predecessor, perhaps because I finally realized what I'm reading is a soap opera in a kilt. Which isn't a bad thing if that's what you want to spend 900 pages on! But I've overdosed for now.