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Summary: Spellbound by time travel tale
Review: This book entralled me from the first word at the beginning to the last word on the last page. This author has a rare gift for giving us what our hearts desire: Hope for love everlasting, Oneness with our mates and the sense that love can survive anything if the two people are well matched. The story heightened all my senses as I read. She took me there, I could see and feel what was going on, my emotions were on red alert. Seldom has an author taken me to such heights. This wasn't just a pretty love story, the historical aspects cried out to my scots blood and entwined with my intimate imagination. I thank the author for her research and power to take me on a trip that I'll want to experience over and over. I look forward to the rest of the series and rereading the whole series in years to come!
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Summary: Drums of Autumn
Review: I was originally prepared to be partially disappointed with this book as a few of the other reviews had left me with the mistaken impression that it didn't deliver. Much to my delight, I LOVED Drums of Autumn! It delivered all of the goods and more. I was also thoroughly taken with the preceeding 3 books in the series. With Drums, I found enjoyment in Jamie and Claire being comfortably together, secure in their love for one another and settled in their new home. This book, like the other three, was filled with laughter, tears, romance and adversity. It dealt with each characters emotions perhaps even better than in the preceding novels because it took it's time - I for one enjoyed the slower pace (but never, never a boring one). I liked the addition of Brianna and Roger's story as well as John Grey's continued presence in the lives of our hero and heroine. I can't wait to see what happens next - the introduction of Stephen Bonnett as well as Will's reappearance should make for some interesting story plots in the next 2 books! I have never been so taken with any characters as I have with Jamie and Claire. Diana Gabaldon is a phenomenal writer - she speaks directly to my heart and sense of adventure! I recommend this as well as every book in the Outlander series - 5 stars for all.
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Summary: An Author's Excess Bores This Reader
Review: While reading this book I could hear the author straining in the background. Better throw in a rape, a bear, an indian attack, a storm. The melodrama was over the top. These piled on events were interspersed with long boring stretches like where Claire grows penicillin or describes the mountain. At one point I stopped reading to count the adjectives. You can skip 20 pagers at a clip and miss nothing. I won't be reading another.
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Summary: Boring, Overwritten
Review: It is very difficult to read one book without reading them all, and that is torture. Claire is too smart to be believable, therefore she becomes an irritating know it all. I had no interest in the North Carolina frontier and will NOT read another. I'm through with Gabaldon. The books are too long, for one thing. A better writer could pull it off. She can't. I hope there will be no more of Claire, Jamie, and Brianna. I've read enough to last several lifetimes.
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Summary: good book
Review: This book is a good book it is not for children though. It has a plot and doesn't really slow down which is a good thing. I enjoyed it. So i would tell people to read it.
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Summary: How Much Better Can It Get?
Review: A friend gave me Outlander for my birthday two years ago, and I showed it to my grandmother, who, by chance, had the three other books. The history that is incorporated in these books shows a little of the history of our family, being of Scottish descent. I am moved by these fabulous stories. I just finished Drums of Autumn, and am anxiously awaiting the next installment in the on-going saga of Jamie and Claire's love story. I'm going to have to go back and re-read the previous three again, just so I can get my fix.
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Summary: It almost felt like I was REALLY along for the ride
Review: I haven't read Drums of Autumn yet, but I HAVE read the preceding three novels in this series. I don't want the author to cut any corners on the rest of the series, but I sure can't wait to read them all! This is truly the BEST time travel series I have ever read, and I have read a lot of them.
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Summary: I'm hooked.
Review: "Drums of Autum" is the first "time travel-romance" I have ever read. I do not usually read romance novels. However, I got lucky and stumbled onto a recorded version at the local library. Boy, if you want to really get the feel of Scotland listen to this book. The narrator is excellent and she brings all of the characters to life. Aye, I'm thinkin' it might just rub off a bit. Anyway, this is a great book and I plan to start at the beginning and read the entire series. What a find!
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Summary: Wonderful book, well worth the wait
Review: I won't spoil the story for you, however I will mention that I was in tears at the ending, and at various points through the book. I am rather surprised to see the amount of people complaining about how long it takes her to write these books--I am quite pleased to see she hasn't given in to the lure of fame and money, cutting down on the time between books and thereby producing stories that aren't as enthralling. I am waiting with baited breath for the sequel to Drums of Autumn (I am given to understand it is the beginning of a new trilogy), since I am sure it, too, will be worth the time spent waiting for it.
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Summary: Everyone learn your Gaelic! A wonderful series!
Review: I have found these books to be wonderful stories! I was hooked when I first opened "Outlander." I find Claire's modern day sense of humor in rather barbaric (to her way of thinking) situations refreshing, as well as her intelligence. How many other authors would have thought to have her bring penicillin to the 18th century, or better still, try to invent it in the 18th century? Jamie is, what can I say, completely wonderful. Stubborn, yes, macho, true, yet lovable and so compatible with Claire.
I couldn't put any of these books down once I had started them. I have them all in hardback and prominently displayed on my bookshelf with the "Outlandish Companion." I even persuaded my grandmother to read them, and she loved them!
I have to wholeheartedly recommend these books to any reader of historical fiction. You really feel like these characters could have existed, and that you are actually looking at life much the way it was in the 18th century. Keep up the good work, Ms. Gabaldon; I am eagerly awaiting the next book(s) in the series!
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