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Feb 22, 2008 Gaijinmama rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction, bees

I have now read this book 5 times and I still love it and recommend it to anyone who likes a good historical/time-travel/love story/big old chunkster! Seriously, this is the fastest 850 pages I've ever read. I never get tired of this series.
Jamie and Claire are still hot. I still love Gabaldon's writing style.
I still **`REALLY, REALLY** like the love scenes...one in particular, fellow fans know the one I'm talking about, nudge nudge, wink, wink!
I still love the historical background and attenti ...more

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Jul 26, 2014 Krissy rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, buddy-read, read-before-2015, cover-color-blue, i-want-to-stab-her-with-a-spork, abuse, virginal-hero, 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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Mar 15, 2015 Ama rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, fiction-adult, repeat-read, romance-erotica-adult, romance-supernatural-fantasy-scifi, audiobooks, all-time-favorites, historical-fiction, 2008, 2012

Oh how I love this series!!

I think Claire and I would get along quite well – other than the fact that Jamie Fraser is my fictional husband.

Over the years, I’ve read this book at least 4 times. Every time I enjoy it immensely. I’ve always listened to the audiobook.

Davina Porter (the narrator) is phenomenal. She is excellent at differentiating between the characters – regardless of age, gender, or origin. My only complaints isn’t about her narration, but rather about the pauses, dubs, and other ...more

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Nov 24, 2017 Avigail rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, audible, own, physical-book, 2017

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Finally, I can say I finished this book. I bought it from New York layover (when I was still a flight attendant in 2008) because I liked the premise of the story. After buying it I discovered that even though the book looks very interesting the letter are too small and I never will get the pronunciation of the Scotish words, phrase, and places. That was also the time the audible app and it was the first book I was reading the hard copy as well as listening to the audiobook narrated by Davina Por Finally, I can say I finished this book. I bought it from New York layover (when I was still a flight attendant in 2008) because I liked the premise of the story. After buying it I discovered that even though the book looks very interesting the letter are too small and I never will get the pronunciation of the Scotish words, phrase, and places. That was also the time the audible app and it was the first book I was reading the hard copy as well as listening to the audiobook narrated by Davina Porter. Mrs. Porter's narration was absolutely fantastic. Loved the voices she did for every character and character. It is incredible how she remembered which voice she did for each character because the audiobook is 32 hours and 38 minutes for an 850-page mass market paperback.
Yes, this historical fiction with a little bit of fantasy and time travel and a lot of erotica book I found before I found BookTube. But I finished the book 3 years after I found BookTube and it has become a famous tv series (I haven't watched the series yet because I didn't want to get spoiled, even though I know each of the first two seasons was only the first book of the series).
With this book, I had a strange thing I was getting into it and then I was starting another book and forgetting about it. This time I found it and said to myself you have to finish it because you need to continue with the series. I also introduced these series to friends and they continued with the series. I also know that when I will continue with the series I will also buy the audiobook and follow the audiobook while reading the hard copy.
Mrs. Gabldon's writing is very atmospheric and I got a lot of information about the English and Scotish history of the 18th century, that I was never taught on my school years. There were parts very descriptive both for bad and good, but well done that you always understood what was going on the plot.
These books make you want to travel to Scotland after reading the first book of the series. I believe that I DNFed the book a couple of times I believe because of the length and not because I didn't enjoy because every time I saw the book on my bookshelf I said to myself you have to finish it because you like it. (The same thing happens with Ken Follett's World Without End Kingsbridge #2, with this book I don't have the audiobook because I had read The Pillars of the Earth Kingsbridge #1 without a problem. I also have to continue with this book because the third of this book has come out in September 2017).
I would like to buy the 25th-anniversary edition of this book and most probably I will buy the floppy paperbacks and not the mass market paperbacks. ...more

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

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

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 24, 2016 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: series, read-in-2016, romance, pbt-fiction-100, scotland, 1, time-travel, epic, rape, adventure

Claire Randall is vacationing with her husband Frank in Scotland after World War Two and trying to rekindle her marriage after many years apart. Claire is picking plants in a stone circle when she travels through a time portal and ends up in Scotland in the 1700's. Claire soon becomes involved in life of the time and finds herself attracted to Jamie Fraser. For the first half or so of the book I was fairly into the story then Jaime does something that really ticked me off and made me almost stop ...more

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Sep 16, 2008 Marla rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: with-reservations, series, romance, chick-lit, fantasy, made-me-cry, historical-fiction, book-club, adult, zz-2010

3.5 stars. A little violent for my taste in love stories, but interesting historical romance in the vein of Barbara Cartland, but more graphic and definitely more violent and not nearly as innocent. Not our typical book club novel, but besides the length (my paperback copy was 650 pages long), it was okay, but not great. But I liked Jamie and will probably read more to see what else happens.

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