lesliehirgelt 's review for:

Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon

4.0

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This is actually a small anthology, if you will, of three novellas written about Lord John. I used Diana's website, where she has a chronology of all of the books and novellas in the Outlander universe, to read these in order, in consideration of the other novels. I enjoyed the novellas and find the situations John finds himself in entertaining (most of the time!). I can't remember if it was one of these novellas or one of the other novels, but she wrote in the narration about how John is just someone that things happen to, and I was like, "TRUE DAT" when I read it, lmao. Overall, these novellas do a nice job displaying John in all of his character elements -- one of the things I most appreciate about Diana's writing is how multifaceted, including flawed, her characters are (including Jamie Fraser!), and John is no exception.