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Outlander (Outlander, #1)

Diana Gabaldon

Start date: June 2, 2016

Finish date: June 30, 2016

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May 21, 2018 Kirsten rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible

I had read this several years back and never moved on... silly me.

So, I decided to re-read this (listening to the Audible) in preparation to read the series (and maybe watch the show... I haven't gotten a Starz subscription yet).

This is a wonderful historical romance with the added twist of time travel. A nice twist is the fact the heroine who does the time travelling isn't from our time, she's from just after WWII. This brings a nice double layering of the historical novel.

She gets thrown ba ...more

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Jul 26, 2014 Krissy rated it liked it

Shelves: buddy-read, audiobook, cover-color-blue, i-want-to-stab-her-with-a-spork, read-before-2015, virginal-hero, abuse, pgs-600-or-more

**2015 Reading Challenge W/Josh: #1 A Book With More Than 500 Pages**

This book could have been amazing. If it were about 300 pages shorter. I enjoyed parts of it. The writing was superb though. I will give it that. And the narrator of the audiobook did a terrific job.

Everybody kept telling me that once you get past the first few chapters you'll get to a point where you can't put the book down. I found that not to be the case. There were certain parts that were exciting and kept me glued to the **2015 Reading Challenge W/Josh: #1 A Book With More Than 500 Pages**

This book could have been amazing. If it were about 300 pages shorter. I enjoyed parts of it. The writing was superb though. I will give it that. And the narrator of the audiobook did a terrific job.

Everybody kept telling me that once you get past the first few chapters you'll get to a point where you can't put the book down. I found that not to be the case. There were certain parts that were exciting and kept me glued to the pages. But they were few and far between. Because in between those handful of exciting parts were extremely long, sleep inducing boredom. Like, I was literally falling asleep in many parts. So the book was about 70% of the author droning on and on and on about nothing and 30% of enthralling excitement.

I never warmed up to Claire. Her quickness to turn against Frank and their vows kind of left a bad taste in my mouth from the beginning. Maybe it would have been different if the author didn't portray Frank to be a sweet and loving man in the beginning. I just felt really bad for him. Going into this book I knew it was going to happen but I just assumed she chose to be with Jaime because she was in love with him. Not the case. I understood why she had to marry Jaime at the time despite not loving him yet. But she had sex with him over and over and over and over again because she thought he was "hot." So she "cheated" on her husband not because she fell in love with another man but because she thought the other man was sexy.

Now on to Jaime. I actually LOVED Jaime. Absolutely adored him. He was by far my favorite character. The last 20% of the book was brutal to read/listen to. It made my heart hurt for Jaime. That was the most difficult part of the book to get through for me.

Now, will I continue on with the series? I don't know. I'll have to think about it. The books just keep getting longer and longer and it was hard enough to get through this one. I just keep picturing the rest of the books following the same pattern as this one. Boring boring boring boring. AWESOME SCENE. Boring boring boring boring. AWESOME SCENE. Rinse and repeat. ...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, romance, historical-romance, new-to-me-author, mgr, rrrc, part-of-a-series, time-travel, scotland, highlanders

Jan 24, 2018: Still 4 stars. I enjoyed the book like before but unlike the last time I am more interested in seeing what happens next.

I enjoyed the story but I found it to be a tad too long. I would have been perfectly happy to see the story end a little sooner then it did. Will I read the others? Not really sure, as I'm happy to see it as a stand alone, (view spoiler) ...more

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Feb 17, 2015 Territadlock06 rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2015-good-reads-challenge

I liked the book. The book has time travel and history of the Scotish people's and their clans. The other side of the story is how would you react, in an instant everything g you knew is gone,. H
Life as s
Claire knew it is gone. I think the author has done a great job. The Story draws you in so that you can become the characters and live in a time long gone. I personally could have done without all the "physical Contact". I would recommend this book to any one who loves history, romance novels- j ...more

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Mar 16, 2016 Yusra Asaad rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-stars

The beautiful love story of Jamie and Claire :)

It starts with a 27 year old nurse called Claire in the year 1945, childless but happily married to Frank Randall and living a quiet life in post war Scotland.

One day she goes investigating a plant she sees in a stone circle, when she suddenly gets pulled in and finds herself in the year of the Lord 1743 about two hundred years prior her time.

She encounters Frank's six-time great grandfather Jonathan Randall otherwise known as Jack Black. Then gets ...more

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Aug 04, 2019 Amy rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, 18th-century, romance

I enjoyed the historical details, and the character of Jamie. But honestly I did not enjoy the prose as much. I read because I had heard there were certain scenes in here that were different from the series, and was a bit disappointed overall. Also... Some consent issues in this book, which have not aged well, and don't make Jamie look that great, personally. ...more

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