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Gripping storyline

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2017

The storyline for this book is gripping from start to finish and the characters stand out as real people. I had great difficulty putting it down. The only quibble I had was that Diana writes that the task ahead was similar to, "Jeremiah being sent to Nineveh". It wasn't Jeremiah who was sent to Nineveh, it was Jonah!

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Janice Clark

I'm losing the plot slightly.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018

I have spent many many hours reading these huge tomes over the past 2 years and will probably read the next 2 but it's all getting a bit ridiculous. My 3 stars are generous. Anyone who has stuck with the series from The Fiery Cross onwards deserves a medal for perseverance . The books have become overlong and convoluted. Something was lost when Jamie and Claire left Scotland as I find all the American Revolution stuff very boring. The best part of this book is when they briefly go back to Scotland and revisit old haunts and characters. The rest is a long trawl through too many long forgotten threads and characters that reach no conclusion. After spending most of the book devoting pages and pages to battles, Lord John, Ian , Willie and a whole load of other guff the writer seems to remember her two main characters and throws in a plot where Claire thinks Jamie dead and is forced to marry Lord John for protection only for Jamie to return a month later. This story line is unnecessary and covered in so few pages it seems like an afterthought chucked in just to involve them a bit more. Why is this bit rushed when other plots go on for ever? It seems an irrelevant tangent to go off on and not in keeping with Claires character at all. And then the book just ends. Clearly to be continued but with so many plot threads hanging I was looking for a few more chapters and thinking "Is that it?" I hope the upcoming tv series 4, 5 and 6 find a way to adjust it and condense it into something more interesting. I fear the next 2 books will be much of the same. I'll still read them. I have the perseverance.

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Janice Clark

I'm losing the plot slightly.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018

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Diabolical

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2019

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First of all, if you're reading this and you've only read as far as book 3 (Voyager) then do yourself a favour and stop there.
Don't pick up another one of these books, just pretend that Diana's editor had the nerve to tell her to quit and that was that. As it is, this novel is another in a string of barely believable, contrived, overlong, turgid reads.
There is a phenomenal amount of pointless detail and minutia that could have been cut with no detriment to the plot, such as it is.
The actions of the main characters are often inconsistent with their previous behaviour and demonstrated personality, such that you begin to think that it's a series about body-swappers rather than time travel.
And then of course you have the now familiar desperately reaching plots that reek of a lack of imagination and a sheer disrespect for the integrity of the story and the intelligence of the reader.
For my sins, I've foolishly started reading the next book and within 80 pages I'm wishing I hadn't bothered. It actually gets worse, quite farcical in fact.
So don't make my mistake, stop after Voyager and remember the first few stories for the quality works that they are.
I've heard in recent interviews that DG doesn't care about what her readers think. If you've read this book, you'll realise that already,

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Celebrating wildness

gets a bit boring, drawn out

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2019

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sorry to say, but books, as the series goes along, get quite tedious and boring with many characters, which are not needed. The only parts I still enjoy are the ones with Claire, her character is the strongest. I must admit I do skip through many parts now, as really not interested in them going here and there and everywhere, repetitive and I found when it came to BIG scenes and important events those were quickly skipped through rather than centering on them. The same feeling I had when I first started reading the books and it was the print shop scene that really didn't do it for me unfortunately. That effect of BIG events doesn't come through. The writing is wonderful don't get me wrong, as always, and I learn a lot from Diana, but stories get boring as it continues. I sort of feel I need to finish the books just to find out what the end is going to be.

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PaigeTurner(Book-lover)

Overlong

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2021

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I have invested in the characters or I would not be carrying on with this series. The series is beginning to be far fetched and implausible. I think DG should have finished this series after book 3 - just written a trilogy. If she wanted another trilogy it should have centred on Roger and Brianna as characters in their own right and with her first main characters making cameos. That would have been more honest. It’s unlikely then you would have got these massive tombs of loads of characters, completely irrelevant to the main characters each with their own stories and loads of detailed fluff. And Claire marrying lord John grey would definitely been out of character. This character for the way she describes how she felt being made to go back to Frank and how she feels that Jamie is her life would not marry anyone again.

The book had good moments and I’m now reading to see how the series ends. I think that’s how most writers who write series end up selling books even if the book series deteriorates as it goes along which this one has unfortunately

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Kaiserin

It is a long book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2020

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The main reasons why I have not given up on the book is that it is a bit of escapism and I am still curious enough to find out where the plot is going. However, there’s little character development but lots of very detailed explanation of historic events/conflicts and medical procedures. So it’s often a slow read that makes me fall asleep very easily. Also, the language doesn’t seem to reach my heart at all which is strange as I tend to get emotionally involved in my characters when reading. I can’t find much beauty in the language - it’s all about the plot really. Well, I’ll finish it and I look forward to the characters coming alive on screen but I wouldn’t buy more books by this author.

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A. V. Scott

Gripping storyline

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2017

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Janet bolland

Just as good if not better than the rest !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2017

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I am addicted to Outlander, thoroughly great stories that Diana Gabaldon brings to life with every turn of the page. I feel as if I know the characters I am sad and happy when they are, and terrified for them when they run into danger, and as I get closer to the end of the series I'm trying to slow down and savour this great tale but I cannot ......
So instead I relive them by watching the series on Tv which tells the stories exceptionally well and if anything, for me, have put real faces to the characters and depicted the reality of the living conditions of those two time zones .
I love Outlander and the many hours of joy I have had in the reading of them I can say no more than that. Will I read them again someday when I have finished them all ..... for sure!!

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houpminquine

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2017

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Almost finished it! I just can’t put it down as Jamie and Claire continue their non stop adventures. I’m really loving the American historical aspect. I’m assuming Ms Galbon has done her research well and it’s pretty accurate. Like previous books in the series I love how it intertwines with all of the characters. But to me the most poignant aspects is still the relationship between Jamie and Claire.

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Life goes on, hold on tight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2018

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Life and love continues on the ridge. I have been living and breathing the lives of Jamie, Claire, Bree, Roger, Ian and the rest of the friends, family, tenants of our favourite clan as well as the huge historical events going on around them. You start with just one more chapter, one more chapter then you realise that you are getting towards the end of the book and then you don't want it to end. That's the curse of Diana's writing I'm afraid.

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Still Enjoyable, But Too Busy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2017

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I am currently on an Outlander binge. I started reading the first book in December, and here I am finishing the seventh now.
This book was still amazing, and far above the middle aged bonk busters that tend to occupy the historic drama romance genre.
But, I felt like the piecing together of the different points of view was done much less elegantly in this book than in the last few. This made the storyline very stop-start and I fear detracted from the suspense building. Although I will say I mostly had this impression for the first four parts and in the very last part - the middle section read much more like the previous books, for which I am grateful.

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