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I definitely enjoyed Voyager the least so far. I’m a bit overall conflicted with this one. The 20 year separation between Claire & Jamie was too long. The first 300 pages of this book felt so destitute as it detailed the rather empty and unfulfilled lives of Jamie & Claire during their separation. I think there has been too much pain and grief inflicted on the protagonists over the span of the first 3 books of this series, and I thought enough was enough.
I wish there had been more time spent on Jamie & Claire reuniting. It was rushed, and it was rushed for the sake of introducing Jamie’s current life as a smuggler/printer and his many aliases. I wasn’t overly connected with this plot line. It seemed a weak and less urgent plot device to keep Jamie employed as some kind of criminal.
I thought I would hate their voyage to the Caribbean and leaving Scotland behind, but I overall enjoyed their adventure, with the exception of the last 200 pages or so. The last 200 pages just seemed like messy storytelling.
This book (through Claire) kept suggesting that fatness was some kind of indication of a moral failure and it made me like Claire far less. I also cannot stomach how these books handle homosexuality. So far, a homosexual is either a psychotic sadist (Randall) or a man doomed to a lonely unrequited love (Grey). And why Jamie needs to be the only male centred in these fantasies is beyond me.
I started to find it grating how everything/everyone is connected. There really is no “innocent” or inconsequential character in these books, everyone plays a role. In order to make this happen, things seem to start feeling forced and contrived.
Don’t even get me started on the romanticism of Fergus & Marsali’s relationship.
4 stars because again, these books are fun entertainment and despite it’s many flaws I still get wrapped in.
I wish there had been more time spent on Jamie & Claire reuniting. It was rushed, and it was rushed for the sake of introducing Jamie’s current life as a smuggler/printer and his many aliases. I wasn’t overly connected with this plot line. It seemed a weak and less urgent plot device to keep Jamie employed as some kind of criminal.
I thought I would hate their voyage to the Caribbean and leaving Scotland behind, but I overall enjoyed their adventure, with the exception of the last 200 pages or so. The last 200 pages just seemed like messy storytelling.
This book (through Claire) kept suggesting that fatness was some kind of indication of a moral failure and it made me like Claire far less. I also cannot stomach how these books handle homosexuality. So far, a homosexual is either a psychotic sadist (Randall) or a man doomed to a lonely unrequited love (Grey). And why Jamie needs to be the only male centred in these fantasies is beyond me.
I started to find it grating how everything/everyone is connected. There really is no “innocent” or inconsequential character in these books, everyone plays a role. In order to make this happen, things seem to start feeling forced and contrived.
Don’t even get me started on the romanticism of Fergus & Marsali’s relationship.
4 stars because again, these books are fun entertainment and despite it’s many flaws I still get wrapped in.