Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Outlander
Book Review: 100 STARS!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves great character development. I picked this book up at random one day at the bookstore and couldn't put it down! I read the third book in the series over a 2 and a half day period. I just couldn't put the book down! You really feel like you belong. Claire becomes a close friend. When Jamie is in trouble your heart goes out for Claire. The whole series is riviting. A.Book Review: 12 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
I simply loved it. The book itself was a gift from my aunt to my mother, my mother to me, and from me to my sister. I can read that book over and over while never growing tierd from such an amazing story. It was like I was no longer reading but watching the story develop. Mrs. Gadaldon now has me reading the whole series, and still wanting more!!! A MUST READ!!!!!!!Book Review: 5 STARS ARE JUST NOT ENOUGH.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me start by saying that I'm not a big fan of historical romances and I picked up this book with some reservations. What a surprise. There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said other than it's the best book I have ever read and I've read a lot of books. I'm ruined from ever enjoying another author as I don't think a better story could be told than that of Jamie and Claire. Yes, I'm gushing but Outlander is worth it.Book Review: 5 Stars is not enough!
Summary: 5 Stars
For several years I've heard readers rave about the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Following the recent release of The Fiery Cross, the fifth book in the series, I finally decided to see what all the fuss is about. I've just finished the series beginner, Outlander, and all I can say is `Wow!' It definitely surpasses the hype!It's 1945, and having been separated throughout most of their eight-year marriage due to their respective WWII duties as nurse and intelligence officer, Claire and Frank Randall are enjoying a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands before he begins his new post as a history professor at Oxford. Frank, a Jacobite historian, spends his leisure time exploring old documents and ghost stories with the local vicar, while Claire, an amateur botanist, gathers wildflowers in the surrounding fields. Fascinated by her discovery of a miniature Stonehenge at Craigh Na Dun, Claire returns one morning with Frank, where to their mutual delight they secretly witness some of the local women performing a ritual dance among the circle of stones. The next day, as Frank busies himself with the genealogy of his English ancestors, Claire returns to the stones to gather some rare plants. She hears a strange vibrating beehive-like sound coming from one of the stones. When she places her hand on the stone, she is instantly sucked through a crack in time back to 1743.
Found wandering the eighteenth-century hillside in suspicious clothing, Claire is captured by an English dragoon captain who suspects her of being either a spy for the Scots or a prostitute. Thinking the second more likely, he decides to find out for himself. Suddenly they are attacked, and Claire is snatched from the randy Redcoat by a red-haired Scottish outlaw who rides off with her into the night with his clansmen.
The Scots can't decide if she is a spy for the English or French, but can't risk letting her go. They take her back with them to Castle Leoch, land of the MacKenzie clan, where her nursing skills prove useful and she is given the job of Healer. She strikes up a friendship with a frequent patient--horse trainer Jamie Fraser, the Scottish outlaw who rescued her from the ruthless English dragoon Captain Jack Randall.
Wanted for questioning by the English, and not quite trusted by the MacKenzie clan, Claire agrees to a marriage of convenience with Jamie. Since the English cannot storm the castle and forcefully remove a resident from Scottish territory, she knows this is her best chance for survival until she can get back to the stones and return to her life with Frank. To assure that the marriage will not be challenged, Jamie and Claire are under strict orders to consummate their vows as soon as possible. And thus begins a physical, spiritual and emotional bond unlike any other, leaving Claire torn between two different centuries and two very different husbands.
Outlander takes you on a thrilling historical adventure, filled with sensuality and gut wrenching, blood, sweat and tear-filled emotional upheavals. I could not put this book down! The characters are strong and gutsy. Claire is one tough woman with a vocabulary to match! Jamie is a big, fierce Highlander who vows he'd fight to the death to protect his new bride.
I have one minor complaint about the book. It bothered me that at first Claire didn't seem too upset about being torn from her husband and everything she held dear. She seemed to adjust to her new surroundings a little too quickly. Gabaldon deals with this later in the book, but it seemed almost as if she wrote it in later as an afterthought. However, that did not detract in the least from my enjoyment of this book.
If you have not read this book yet, you must read it immediately. Do yourself a favor and buy all five books in advance--once you finish this one you'll be anxious to devour the entire series.
Book Review: 800 pages & I read it in two days! I couldn't put it down!
Summary: 5 Stars
I randomly bought this book for a friend who was recovering from surgery, and it sounded so fascinating that I bought a copy for myself. I am not normally a reader of romance novels, preferring fantasy/science fiction. I loved this book. I literally read the entire book in one weekend! Ms. Gabaldon's characters are so vivid, that I could picture every one of them in my mind. The plot is just complicated enough to keep you interested, without being confusing. The wonderful mix of passion/humor was refreshing, and I found myself actually laughing out loud at some of the funny parts. I especially liked the wedding night scene because of it's mix of passion and humor.I'm almost afraid to read the sequels to this book, in case they aren't as good as this one. But, I'll definitely read this book over more than once in the future