Outlander (Outlander, #1) in Reading with Style

Feb 21, 2019 Connie G rated it really liked it

Shelves: europe, romance, scotland, fantasy, historical-fiction, time-travel, adventure-survival

Claire Randall had been working as a combat nurse during World War II. In 1945, soon after the war ended, she and her husband travel to Scotland on a second honeymoon. As Claire is exploring in the circle of massive standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun, she touches a stone and falls back in time to 1743.

"Outlander" is full of intrigue and adventure. Claire pretends to be an English widow traveling to France. A handsome Highlander, Jamie Fraser, acts as her protector. Claire has many oppo ...more

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Oct 13, 2019 Jen from Quebec :0) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-ve-been-putting-off, female-authors, foreign-authors, color-challenge-for-book-covers, reading-challenge-books, copies-i-own, buddy-reads, disney-challenge, favorites, historical-fiction

Well, I finally caved. I got sucked in to the Outlander world. I 'read' the audiobook version and really enjoyed it. Could the book have been trimmed down by about 100 pages or so? Yes. But- I AM a sucker for HISTORY and this book is full of that. (Specifically, the Scottish clans + highlands in the 1700's.) I will wait to write more on this novel once my group finishes reading it (I totally read too fast). Now the question is = will I cave further and get the next book in the series? Can I read ...more

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Mar 08, 2011 Rosemary rated it liked it · review of another edition

I mostly enjoyed this book (whose US title is Outlander) but I found Claire, the heroine, extremely irritating. She travels back in time from 1946 to 1743 and that aspect attracted me to the book, but I was a little disappointed. There was a point in the middle where I wondered if I should just stop and read one of the other group reads instead. But the plot picked up again with the witch trial and I didn't have any trouble staying interested after that. Just wish I could have liked Claire ... ...more

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May 09, 2014 Whitney rated it liked it

Shelves: gabaldon

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. While normally I dislike books where accents in dialogue are written out phonetically, this one kept me sufficiently distracted with all the sex. Three stars instead of two because it had so much action and adventure packed into a very long book. Would be great to take on airplanes, and probably has been. It's interesting that Outlander was first published in 1991 and is now back in the limelight. Movie coming out apparently? I liked the main character Claire; I'm sure she would be very amusing ...more

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