A review by toni7tess
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

3 stars for Gabaldon's beautiful writing style and description. But there are a few things that really annoy me. First of all, why does she have to keep using rape as a plot device? It takes away so much from the story and just feels super unrealistic and over the top. The other thing (and this felt genuinly ridiculous) is that for some reason Gabaldon has a tendency to make all the really evil people in her stories gay? I know this book was written a long time ago, but at this point it kind of feels like she is doing it on purpose. And if you're going to include LGBTQ+ characters in your book, why not also include some consensual sex?
The book (even more so than the last one) felt like it could have been a few hundred pages shorter, but that wasn't that big of a deal to me because I really like Gabaldon's writing style.
The love story between Roger and Brianna also really didn't feel believable and like it was just there to frame the rest of the story. It was very hard to get emotionally invested and I would have liked that part of the book to be a bit more focused.
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