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Summary: A GREAT read!
Review: Diana Gabaldon takes you on an adventure...from Outlander to Dragonfly in Amber...four books of a wonderful Scottish adventure...about 1,000 pages each and you won't be able to put any of them down! Make sure you have a lot of time to stay home and read! You won't want to stop and sleep!
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Summary: Read it at the Library - Now want my own book! Enthralling!
Review: This book was never on the shelf very long at our local library. Much talked about. Loose yourself in 1700's Scotland. An adventurous time-travel romance well written - great Scottish characters than come to life as you read. Not good bedtime reading because you can't put it down! Excellent.
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Summary: The BEST READ ever!!!
Review: After spending 3 weeks reading her previous three OUTLANDER, then this DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, and her third VOYAGER, I waited a year, but it was well worth the wait for DRUMS OF AUTUMN. They are a MUST read, she tells her stories in a way that you just dont want to put down the book until you are done, then at the end wish that there was more. She makes you feel like you are part of the story
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Summary: In one word--exhausting.
Review: Like Outlander and the ones after it, this one is not only large in length but in literary fiction in ranks with the best. I'm looking forward to reading her other books
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Summary: A 15 out of 10!
Review: Even better than her first novel! Ms. Gabaldon has a way of transporting you along with Claire Beauchamp-Randall-Frasier to 18th century Scotland and France. The commonplace becomes extraordinany in her hands and the extraordinary becomes instantly believable! Everyone MUST read this novel! NOW!!
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Summary: 02/04/96
Review: This book is a wonderful follow up to Outlander. When I first bought this book I was shaking because I couldn't wait to read it.
The plot keeps thickening and the story gets better and better.
Like Outlander, this book is hard to put down. Diana Gabaldon's attention to detail is unmatched. This book is definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Still Addicted
Review: This is a great sequel to OUTLANDER. The hero and heroine are in for more action, wrenching emotions, and the war for Scottish independence. What more can I say? - GREAT READING
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Summary: Exceeds your expectations
Review: I read "Outlander" last summer and fell in love with the style of Diana Gabaldon's action-adventure-romance-historical fiction writing. Outlander grabbed me, yet I didn't read this second book until this year. Admittedly I went in with hesitations- how could anything top Outlander- and, besides, I knew what this book would deal with from reviews. To clear up any confusion, this covers the time preceding of the Battle of Culloden, which Jamie & Claire have been working so hard to prevent. In this book, the tensions are increased five fold as this couple works around the clock to stop it. And we all know what happens. However, this is a tale told in flashback- a flashback from Scotland in the 1960's. Frank, Claire's husband of the modern world, is now dead, and Claire has taken her & Jamie's daughter Brianna back to Scotland to reveal to her the truth, in due course introducing Roger Wakefield, a historian who will be essential to Claire's discovering the truth of what happened after she went back through the stones so long ago. Thus you have two timelines- present day Scotland, in which emotions boil and simmer as the past is retold through Claire- and 1700's Scotland, where Jamie and Claire fight the future. The social, political, and historical aspects of this book are genius- it held me for long hours as Jamie and Claire tramped through Scotland and France and England. A must-read for any fan of the Outlander series- and for any reader who wishes to be more than decently entertained for a good long while.
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Summary: Wonderful Sequel
Review: I have just finished reading this book for the second time. I really just loved it. Diana Gabaldon has the power to make you never want to leave. This volume is told through a flashback. It works very well. Claire finally tells her daughter about the father that she has never known. This however, does not detract form the story one little bit. It only gives the reader more people to care about. The part of the story that takes place in the past is just as intense as the first novel. Even though you know Claire will return to her present at the end, it doesn't make her and Jamie's seperation any less heart wrenching.
Over all the book is more depressing and fatalistic than the first. But I enjoyed it just the same. Just knowing that there are a supposed 5 more volumes after this one prevents any real sense of loss at the end. A fabulous read!
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Summary: Heartbreaking
Review: I just learned about this series of books recently and read all five of them in the last month. I just fell in love with Jamie and Claire and was happy to ignore the dishes in the sink and the dirty floors in favor of these excellent stories.
I really would rather not risk giving any of the story away but I will point out that this IS the second book of the series. Because of the starting point of this book, I thought I had inadvertantly skipped over a book or two.
I will also say that I cried so hard at the end of this book that I could barely continue reading but could hardly stop. It would be a good idea to have the third book (Voyager) handy as you will not want to stop reading just because you've come to the last page.
This is a truly excellent book and a wonderful continuation of Jamie and Claire's story. I really loved it!
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