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Feb 24, 2016
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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
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An extremely long book. I found myself shaking my head at some of the choices that the author made (like having the male lead experience a traumatic rape), and I didn't like the smug heroine particularly, but I did enjoy the historical setting and just the verve of this book. I don't think I will read on in the series.
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This book has many of the attributes that I like in a book; an exciting plot, time travel, romance, is well written, seems well researched and is historical fiction. Why then, has this book been a real slog for me?
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Such a ridiculous, trashy novel! I can see why people would like it, but it wasn't my thing.
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