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5.0 out of 5 stars Intense and satisfying. Have number eight ready for when you finish this number seven in the series.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
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Diana Gabaldon continues to enthrall her fans with this the seventh of eight novels (can't wait for number nine to be completed!). As much as I enjoyed Claire and Jamie's life and adventures in Scotland, there is something very compelling about them having new experiences in a raw and war torn America. I love that their family (not just blood) is expanding and the extended family is maturing and becoming an important part of the story in their own right.
I will not go into great detail because you have most likely read her other six novels you know you are staring into a dramatic abyss that will suck you down and hold you until the end of the book and beyond. I am re-reading the series for the third time and it still captivated me just as it did the first time. I have lost a lot of sleep working my way through these books, just as I did the first time, often falling asleep with the book on my lap. Good thing I'm retired now and can sleep in. I think they get even better with re-reading-like a good story told by your grandfather that you love hearing again and again. Plus, the older you get when you read them, the more life experience you have to illuminate what Claire and Jamie are going through as they get older and their love more embroidered.
If you are reading the series for the first time, be sure and have the eighth book at hand when you get close to finishing this one. I actually delayed reading number eight this time as long as I could stand because I knew it still be a long time before number nine would be published. We'll just have to be patient. Perfection takes time and hard work. Thanks again to Diana Gabaldon for creating this world for us Outlanders to explore and treasure.
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Susan
3.0 out of 5 stars I love Outlander and the previous books...but this?
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
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I love Outlander and the previous books...but this? What a mess! I truly don't CARE about Willie's whining and complaints. There's far too much of him in this book as well as too much of Lord John. Lord John has clearly spoiled the little brat and as a supposed soldier, he's truly a lost cause. I see NOTHING of his blood father in anything he does. How many times will he get lost? How many times will we hear of his nightmares and fears? Truly, I'm going to just skip ahead and any section that has anything to do with him? I'll skip it. UPDATE: On my second read of this book, I chose to simply skip anything that had William in it (unless of course, it had Jamie and Claire and Ian). It is a much better read if I do that. MUCH.

My theory? She's trying to do a portion of the story in many locales in the US, to satisfy fans. I mean, to end up at Ft. Ticonderoga from N Carolina, on the way to Scotland? And once again, healing a disagreeable fellow who in turn ends up being a fan of Claire's? It's starting to repeat on itself.

For shame, Ms. Gabaldon.

Edit: I've since gotten almost to the end of the book and upped the rating. I still feel that there is a lot of inane 'filler' where small, meaningless stories take up a lot of meaningless pages. Maybe she had a minimum number of pages required. ANYWAY, once they got away from the mind-numbing battlefield stuff, and back to Jamie and Claire and Ian in Scotland and then in Philadelphia, it picked up a lot.
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Danielle
4.0 out of 5 stars I love outlander I have ready the books for three years ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017
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I love outlander I have ready the books for three years now. And I love the TV series. Now some of the books are hard to get through. In my opinion 2 and 5 were the hardest. But this one I think makes the list. No spoiling intended but it takes about 700 pages for the actual plot to kick in. (The plot that was describe on the back of the book) going in I thought this book would be all about what they described. But it isn't. It flips back and forth between too many characters. I like john Greg and Willie just fine but I dont really care all to much about what happens to them on a daily basis. I wanted more Claire and Jamie. And heck even more roger and Brianna. I dont really like their romance but I would have liked it more than reading about Willie traveling through a swamp...

I only read this one so I could see what the next one was about. I had even put this one down for a few months. (Not quite as long as when I had put the 5th one down for a year)

I really hope the next one was worth it.
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Janice Clark
3.0 out of 5 stars I'm losing the plot slightly.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2018
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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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1.0 out of 5 stars Diabolical
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 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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A. V. Scott
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping storyline
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2017
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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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Celebrating wildness
3.0 out of 5 stars gets a bit boring, drawn out
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Life goes on, hold on tight
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 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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