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Summary: Hooked on Jamie and Claire
Review: I realize that I must be hopelessly hooked on this series to ignore some of the problems with this recent installment, but I enjoyed The Fiery Cross. It is still a masterpiece of imagination with a broad scope of characters whose lives seem real and intricately interwoven. If it lacks some of the intrigue of the first books, one must take into account the loss of the MacKenzies of Leoch and of Scotland itself. I found myself longing for Jenny, Ian and Lallybroch, but isn't that what moving to the New World was about: loss of one life for the promise of something better?
I do wonder why Ms.Gabaldon made Jemmy such an unsympathetic child, ( undoubtedly while infuriating the Le Leche League ) and strangling poor Roger was over the top. Having said that, Jamie and Claire are aged gracefully and wonderfully. I particularly liked the transference of the idea of Jamie as Laird even in the new wilderness.
I have not read many positive views of The Fiery Cross, but I'm still hooked and looking forward to the final showdown with Steven Bonnet. I do hope that there will be more of Fergus and the rest of the original characters. On the other hand, if Jamie and Claire actually become crispy critters in the next book, I will be livid!
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Summary: Sloggish at best
Review: Like many other reviewers I love the Outlander series (and have turned many people on to it), but trudged through this one. I should have guessed it would be teadious reading when the first couple hundred pages are spent on one day at the gathering. I am still eagerly awaiting the next installment in the Outlander series, but hope Gabaldon gets it together again and gives us another story told in the fashion she has become famous for.
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Summary: Worst Outlander book
Review: I read all the others and loved them, including the Outlandish Companion. This book was so boring I gave up and still haven't finished it.
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Summary: not like the others
Review: I agree with some of the other reviews that this was much slower than the rest of the series. I actually enjoyed some of the descriptions of daily life, since the characters generally travel from one travail to the next in the rest of the series. It was simply too much, though. I also thought this was sure to be the end of the series, and given the amount of detail recounted, the loose ends left in the storyline were unsatisfying.As Gabaldon has gone on to write about Lord John Grey in her next book, I suppose we'll just have to live with an unfinished story...
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Summary: luke warm
Review: I have truly injoyed the Outlander series and have been totally hooked, until now. I was really dissappointed with this book as it simply got tiresome. I did like the character development of Roger and Brianna but I really thought it would be taken more in that direction. Pass the torch from Jamie and Claire to Roger and Brianna. Jamie and Claire have got to be getting up there in years and it's about time to let them fade away into the scenery. There's so much more potential for another book that I truly hope to see one. (I just hope it's not as mundane as this one)
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Summary: Not up to par with the earlier books in the series
Review: Diana's editor was asleep at the wheel on this one. It begins with over a hundred pages of cold, snow, frost, rain, mud, fog, wind, wet clothes, wet blankets, wet tents, and dirty diapers. It was very gloomy and depressing. And although the Brianna's baby, Jemmy, was mentioned at least once on almost every page, there was not one positive thing said about the baby in the whole book. Just Jemmy, Jemmy, Jemmy, Jemmy, Jemmy. Jemmy getting into this--Jemmy spilling that--Jemmy crawling into places he didn't belong. I got really tired of it. The editorial mistakes were the worst. One character falls into a 'choke-cherry' bush, but gets untangled from a 'nannyberry' bush. Jemmy is in Jamie's arms one minute, then looking over his mother's shoulder the next. The book is just full of these kinds of mistakes that the editor should have caught. I waited so long for this book, and paid full price for the hardback edition, thinking that it would be as good as the previous books. I could not have been more wrong. Diana's work is usually so wonderful! I just devoured the first four books, and I recommend them to all my friends. As a librarian, I have introduced many readers to the Outlander series. I hope that if Diana writes another Jamie and Claire book she will concentrate on it a little more, and I hope the editor will actually read it before it's published.
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Summary: Where's the Plot?
Review: I thought Diana Gabaldon was getting tired of the Outlander people in The Drums of Autumn, but after The Fiery Cross, so am I! This book has less plot than the average Seinfeld episode. Unless you count Gabaldon's attempts to see how many horrible things can happen to these people. Please! Brianna is even more unlikable, Jemmy is annoying, Roger is hanged and loses his only talent. Jamie, the red-headed hero, is annoying! If you feel you must read this, please check it out from the library and save your money.
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Summary: What happened here?
Review: I've tried, I really have, to get through this book. I loved the previous novels and still carry the torch for Jamie and Claire. However, this book just didn't give me anything to look forward to after the first several chapters and I ended up putting it down (for the third time?). The magical aura that permeates the first Outlander novels evaporates in The Fiery Cross. I hoped it to be a continuation of the previous works, full of magic and passion, especially after waiting so long for it to arrive.
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Summary: I hope she writes another one in this series!
Review: I loved this book. I read some of the reviews before reading it and because of them kept thinking Clare and Jamie wouldn't be in the book much and that Brianna would prove to be cold, but nothing of the sort ever happened in the book. Brianna is just so smart and strong and a great character. All I could think of was that people misinterpreted her dealing with her rape trauma issues as "cold". I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. Now that it's over, I miss their world very much. I've read many books since, but find my thoughts still wonder and think about them, which doesn't happen to me often with books after so long a time has passed. If you enjoyed the books prior to this one, by all means continue and enjoy their journey.
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Summary: A Big Nothing
Review: I read the previous novels and thoroughly enjoyed them. Sorry to say, I gave up on this one after 120 pages or so.............nothing was happening! Very disappointed with Gabaldon's effort. She has extended a good thing too far.
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