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debz57a52 's review for:
Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
Hmmmm.... This is the 9th Outlander book I read in little under a year, after never reading a single book or seeing a single minute of the show. Claire and Jamie and Ian and Jenny and Fergus and Brianna and Roger and all those other people are part of my soul. I open a book with them and I return to my make-believe family. It's comfortable and I like that.
But.
Although all those comfortable people were in this book, and I really love that, this was not a fabulous book for them. It gave big second-bo0k-in-a-trilogy vibes, trying to connect the previous book with the next book with a huge heap of purgatory and abstract development. Yeah, I know revolutions do not develop quickly and there's lots of behind the scenes talking and planning and such. And by now, Gabaldon has introduced so many characters with limited 3rd person narration that she needs to check on each one, but it's rare for any of them are co-habitating. But there has got to be some resolution to some of these conflicts eventually, right? I mean, there are even old characters who resurface in this book, reopening conflicts that I thought had already been resolved / avoided! Yeesh!
I skipped over a lot of the long natural descriptions in this volume (and previous ones, too, really). They are well-written, but badly-placed for pacing so often, imho.
But.
Although all those comfortable people were in this book, and I really love that, this was not a fabulous book for them. It gave big second-bo0k-in-a-trilogy vibes, trying to connect the previous book with the next book with a huge heap of purgatory and abstract development. Yeah, I know revolutions do not develop quickly and there's lots of behind the scenes talking and planning and such. And by now, Gabaldon has introduced so many characters with limited 3rd person narration that she needs to check on each one, but it's rare for any of them are co-habitating. But there has got to be some resolution to some of these conflicts eventually, right? I mean, there are even old characters who resurface in this book, reopening conflicts that I thought had already been resolved / avoided! Yeesh!
I skipped over a lot of the long natural descriptions in this volume (and previous ones, too, really). They are well-written, but badly-placed for pacing so often, imho.