Outlander

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896 pages

English language

Published July 26, 2005 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-24294-9
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2 stars (1 review)

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

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2 stars

I was drawn to this book by the Time Traveller theme, and hesitant of its Romance Novel reputation. What I found was a very long and not entirely satisfying book which does not compel me to continue the series.

The characters are strongly written and the landscape richly described. This is a good period of history and well described. However, parts of the story dragged, and it could have been two books. Near the end, the main character pours her heart out to a priest and is absolved of sins - this authors rationalization feels very pasted on.

My rating - somewhere between 2 stars ("it was ok") and 3 stars ("liked it").