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bracethegate 's review for:
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
I read the fist 8 books in a month in 2019. I couldn't stop reading. This is the first one that got to bore me.
I agree with some of the comments that say that this book lacks editing. How come the F word is used every three lines when William is speaking or thinking? Claire worked hard to explain its meaning to Jamie in the first book, but now it seems everyone talks like it's the 21st century all of a sudden. That and the overuse of some expressions kept kicking me out of the plot (as little of it as there is) as I was reading.
SPOILERS:
Also, there are several storylines that were hinted and never developed: Brianna's for instance. She was supposed to become an armorer for the militia, build plumbing for the house and so on an so forth and all she ends up doing is having a baby she didn't want in the first place. Without a single paragraph dedicated to the shock it must have been to be pregnant against her will or how much she must have worried about her heart condition, etc. It only mentions "her heart is well" and that's it.
I also don't get how Claire's personality has changed. When she met Jaime, she hated gender roles (so far as her 40s mentality allowed her) and refused to serve men. In this book, she's Jamie's perfect maid. Ok, Diana.
It just feels like DG got tired of working and hired someone else to continue the novels while she enjoys her money (as she's entitled to do, don't get me wrong). I just wished she had finished the novels and not made us start hating (or worse, getting bored by) characters we love.
(Sorry if I didn't get my points accross, I'm not a native EN speaker.)
I agree with some of the comments that say that this book lacks editing. How come the F word is used every three lines when William is speaking or thinking? Claire worked hard to explain its meaning to Jamie in the first book, but now it seems everyone talks like it's the 21st century all of a sudden. That and the overuse of some expressions kept kicking me out of the plot (as little of it as there is) as I was reading.
SPOILERS:
Also, there are several storylines that were hinted and never developed: Brianna's for instance. She was supposed to become an armorer for the militia, build plumbing for the house and so on an so forth and all she ends up doing is having a baby she didn't want in the first place. Without a single paragraph dedicated to the shock it must have been to be pregnant against her will or how much she must have worried about her heart condition, etc. It only mentions "her heart is well" and that's it.
I also don't get how Claire's personality has changed. When she met Jaime, she hated gender roles (so far as her 40s mentality allowed her) and refused to serve men. In this book, she's Jamie's perfect maid. Ok, Diana.
It just feels like DG got tired of working and hired someone else to continue the novels while she enjoys her money (as she's entitled to do, don't get me wrong). I just wished she had finished the novels and not made us start hating (or worse, getting bored by) characters we love.
(Sorry if I didn't get my points accross, I'm not a native EN speaker.)