My thoughts on
Outlander (Outlander #1)
Voyager (Outlander #3)
Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4)
The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6)
An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander #8)
If you watch the serialized version on STARZ this book is the basis for season 2.
The start of this book takes place in 1968 and finds Claire and her almost 21 year old daughter in Scotland. The Reverend Wakefield who was helping Frank with his research in book 1 has died and Claire is going to pay respects to his adopted son Roger, who was just a wee lad the last time Claire saw him.
The how and why Claire returned to her proper time leaving her heart and soul behind is the story we are told in Dragonfly in Amber as Claire tells her daughter Bree the story of her real father, Jamie Fraser. There is some tension around if Bree will believe her mother's tale of time travel and love found in the 1740's and how she will handle the disruption in her heart and mind as her belief in Frank as her father and her love for him and he for her is questioned. Is her mother insane or a miracle?
Coming in at 947 pages Gabaldon takes us from the Scottish Highlands to Paris and back, from love and hate, from war and peace to the heartbreak of love torn apart.
I admit it, there is some cheese factor, but it is such lovely cheese, it melts in your mouth and makes you sigh with pleasure. I am anxious to start book 3 and am pulling for Jamie and Claire, and now Roger and Bree too.
(Finished July 18, 2016)
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