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A review by aubreyreverie
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
5.0
I think this book should go down in history as having the most epic number of cliffhangers, ever. Echo might be my favorite book in the Outlander series, besides Outlander itself.
In this book, the story splits and follows each different character - there's the story of Jamie and Claire, young Ian and his quest for love with his dog (love Rollo!), Brianna and Roger and their young weans, Lord John and William...plus new characters were introduced that helped to make the book. Now granted, just like with DG's other work, the middle (and bulk) of this book is without a plot. It's mostly day-to-day, and some very important events happen that don't seem to have as large an impact as they should have.
Some of the difficulties I had while reading this book:
It's set during the American Revolution, so there's a lot of battle scenes. I had a hard time keeping track of who was a rebel and who was a loyalist, or perhaps if those were the same...
There are a lot of letters in this book, too - I found myself skipping over them to get "back to the action" of the plot. I missed some important stuff because of this.
While I liked that the book followed all of the different characters, the splitting off and separation between chapters irked me a bit. I wanted to finish reading on Roger and Brianna and it'd switch to Young Ian. I kind of lost my thunder a couple times and found myself putting this book down more often than I did any of the others.
Things I really liked:
Without giving too much away, that by the end of the book, everything came pretty much full circle. By that, I mean that all of the different places and characters kind of became connected.
It left me majorly wanting more - I want to find out how she finishes it! Like right now, not in 2013!
Now that all that is being said, this book was hard to read, because it was so complicated. It took me longer to read it than any of the other Outlander books, and not just because of the length. But if you made it this far, you MUST read this book. You have to know how it ends!
In this book, the story splits and follows each different character - there's the story of Jamie and Claire, young Ian and his quest for love with his dog (love Rollo!), Brianna and Roger and their young weans, Lord John and William...plus new characters were introduced that helped to make the book. Now granted, just like with DG's other work, the middle (and bulk) of this book is without a plot. It's mostly day-to-day, and some very important events happen that don't seem to have as large an impact as they should have.
Some of the difficulties I had while reading this book:
It's set during the American Revolution, so there's a lot of battle scenes. I had a hard time keeping track of who was a rebel and who was a loyalist, or perhaps if those were the same...
There are a lot of letters in this book, too - I found myself skipping over them to get "back to the action" of the plot. I missed some important stuff because of this.
While I liked that the book followed all of the different characters, the splitting off and separation between chapters irked me a bit. I wanted to finish reading on Roger and Brianna and it'd switch to Young Ian. I kind of lost my thunder a couple times and found myself putting this book down more often than I did any of the others.
Things I really liked:
Without giving too much away, that by the end of the book, everything came pretty much full circle. By that, I mean that all of the different places and characters kind of became connected.
It left me majorly wanting more - I want to find out how she finishes it! Like right now, not in 2013!
Now that all that is being said, this book was hard to read, because it was so complicated. It took me longer to read it than any of the other Outlander books, and not just because of the length. But if you made it this far, you MUST read this book. You have to know how it ends!