A review by cclift1114
A Plague of Zombies by Diana Gabaldon

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This novella for the most part didn’t make an impression on me, except for when it mentioned Tom Byrd’s age. He’s 19 here, which would make him only 13 in the events of The Scottish Prisoner (in which he’s shot) and all the back to only 10 in the earlier John Grey stories? I knew he was young and maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention in those other books, but I didn’t think Gabaldon had a literal child doing all these things. Of course, it may just be that she’s not keeping track of these details, which she outright admits in one of the other Outlander novellas in an author’s note.