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cristinasuarezmunoz 's review for:
The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon
I desperately wanted to give The Fiery Cross 4 glowing stars but I couldn't. When I say that I'm in love with this series, I mean it but this book failed in delivering the excitement we've come to expect from Diana Gabaldon.
DG is a talented and flawless writer but this book was mostly about the day-to-day minutiae that bored me to tears. I kept reading because I'm invested in Jamie and Claire. Their relationship is engaging and while these two have settled into daily life...the chemistry is still very much alive.
"Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach.
However, there were things in the story I didn't care about, Jemmy being one of them and Brianna's lactating breasts were another. I simply did not care for Jemmy's baby talk and I love kids in stories but I all I wanted to do was stick a pacifier in his mouth! Don't even get me started on Brianna's hardening breasts. Yes, I said hardening. *eye-roll* I'm thinking DG must have been pregnant when she wrote this story.
It was so frustrating. Frustrating because it was 1,400 pages!!! Nothing was happening, so much trivial crap I didn't care about was explained and I couldn't figure out where the plot was hiding, it felt as though I was searching for Waldo!!! But it did get better. The second half was slow to get going as well but that eventually changed around the 60'ish % mark.
With that being said, even though there were moments that I loved with great dialogue that only DG can deliver, the story still felt disjointed and boring. *heavy sigh* For those of you that want to read The Fiery Cross...hang in there because it is a tough book to finish but I'm glad I did and the last 10% of the book was AUH-MAZING!! That ending left me with so many questions but I think that'll be answered in the next book. And based on what I've heard, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6) makes up for what The Fiery Cross lacked.
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DG is a talented and flawless writer but this book was mostly about the day-to-day minutiae that bored me to tears. I kept reading because I'm invested in Jamie and Claire. Their relationship is engaging and while these two have settled into daily life...the chemistry is still very much alive.
"Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach.
However, there were things in the story I didn't care about, Jemmy being one of them and Brianna's lactating breasts were another. I simply did not care for Jemmy's baby talk and I love kids in stories but I all I wanted to do was stick a pacifier in his mouth! Don't even get me started on Brianna's hardening breasts. Yes, I said hardening. *eye-roll* I'm thinking DG must have been pregnant when she wrote this story.
It was so frustrating. Frustrating because it was 1,400 pages!!! Nothing was happening, so much trivial crap I didn't care about was explained and I couldn't figure out where the plot was hiding, it felt as though I was searching for Waldo!!! But it did get better. The second half was slow to get going as well but that eventually changed around the 60'ish % mark.
With that being said, even though there were moments that I loved with great dialogue that only DG can deliver, the story still felt disjointed and boring. *heavy sigh* For those of you that want to read The Fiery Cross...hang in there because it is a tough book to finish but I'm glad I did and the last 10% of the book was AUH-MAZING!! That ending left me with so many questions but I think that'll be answered in the next book. And based on what I've heard, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6) makes up for what The Fiery Cross lacked.
♥