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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
The ninth book in the Outlander series, Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone was a slog. At almost 900 pages it took me a good six weeks to read. But the size of the book really had nothing to do with the length of time it took me to read it. I've read books equally as large in just one week. You see the problem with Bees was the plot and it's extraordinarily large cast of characters. It's fine to give side characters time in a book, but that time must somehow have an effect on the plot. In Bees I felt these characters didn't and that the whole book was more like a drawn out character study.
Gabaldon also gets way too bogged down in descriptions in her work. There is so much focusing on little menial things in the plot that add very little entertainment value. Things like dealing with a spider in the toilet, shopping for food and mending clothes. Any well versed Outlander fan would already be well aware of what life is like for Claire and Jamie on Fraser's Ridge so I felt like these were all unnecessary things to comment upon.
As an Outlander fan it hurts me a little to say that this is the absolutes worst book in the series and that it would have been more fun to sit outside watching grass grow then trying to get through this book. If Gabaldon hadn't spent so much time rehashing was had happened in the previous novels perhaps there might have been some semblance of a story buried here. As it stands - I fell asleep several times trying to get through this tome.
Nothing seemed to really matter in this book. There was nothing really surprising or new. It was weighed down in dialogue. The climax was anti-climatic after reading all the other scenes that came before it. In the end this book reads more like a drawn out fan-fic than an actual novel with an actual storyline.
I'm rating it 2/5 stars only because it slightly redeemed itself in the end with the reappearance of the certain character.
Gabaldon also gets way too bogged down in descriptions in her work. There is so much focusing on little menial things in the plot that add very little entertainment value. Things like dealing with a spider in the toilet, shopping for food and mending clothes. Any well versed Outlander fan would already be well aware of what life is like for Claire and Jamie on Fraser's Ridge so I felt like these were all unnecessary things to comment upon.
As an Outlander fan it hurts me a little to say that this is the absolutes worst book in the series and that it would have been more fun to sit outside watching grass grow then trying to get through this book. If Gabaldon hadn't spent so much time rehashing was had happened in the previous novels perhaps there might have been some semblance of a story buried here. As it stands - I fell asleep several times trying to get through this tome.
Nothing seemed to really matter in this book. There was nothing really surprising or new. It was weighed down in dialogue. The climax was anti-climatic after reading all the other scenes that came before it. In the end this book reads more like a drawn out fan-fic than an actual novel with an actual storyline.
I'm rating it 2/5 stars only because it slightly redeemed itself in the end with the reappearance of the certain character.