Lynda C. (Readnmachine) reviewed on 9/11/2014 + 1474 more book reviews

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I said I wasn't going to read any more Outlander after the last one, which landed Claire and Jamie in the New World. I felt that was a good time to quit, but I had this next book in my TBR stack. For a while, I thought I'd made the wrong decision and nearly put it down after the first hundred or so pages. It's a ponderously slow book, packed with the minutiae of daily life in the mid-1700s, and full of as many coincidences and recurring chracters as Dickens at his worst. Yet the very strength of those characters is compelling, and one hangs on to see what happens when Jamie and Claire's daughter Brianna crosses the stones to come back and warn them, and then is trapped in the past along with the 20th-century man she loves, who has followed her through. Heaven help my husband, who asked me "What's that book about?" The only question now is whether I go on to the next episode!

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