Oh, how I wish I could read in the car. But my husband is probably secretly glad I can’t, so that I keep him company instead.
My estimated delivery is not until Saturday, but I would really love to get it tomorrow. Tonight is no good; I have to go listen to my son play in the band at a middle school football game. But then again, I could still hear the band if I sat out in the parking lot with my book, right?
Grr…arghh…I bought it on Tuesday at Target (went out at lunch especially), but I have so little time in the evenings by the time I feed livestock, doctor dogs and feed myself and the dogs, I can’t give it the hours it deserves. And this weekend will be pretty busy. I hate reading in 30 minute increments.
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I tried to read Outlander, but was put off by the constant clothing descriptions. Does she continue to focus on that throughout the series? I want to like these books.
Hmm, I didn’t think she described clothing excessively, except perhaps to be impressed by a Highlander in full regalia ("…any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.").
She does consistently provide a lot of details on clothing, food, and many other aspects of the 18th century, which is part of what I love about the books and helps explain why they are all 900 pages long. To maybe answer your question, I don’t think her style changes significantly from the first book.
I’ve also notices she focuses on smells…Jamie’s scent (like whiskey and manure, sometimes) and when something is off, like the metallic scent of blood amongst the honey hives.
I don’t have my book yet…grumble grumble.
Yes, they books are very evocative and sensual, in the literal sense.
AND I DON’T HAVE MINE EITHER! Wahhhhhhhhhh. Maybe it’ll be in this afternoon’s mail.
My copy is here! It will be waiting for me when I get home. I’ll be up late tonight.
My copy did indeed arrive in the afternoon mail. I’m on page 24. 
You know, I started this damn thread…I shouldn’t be the last one to get the book!!!
Claire, startled to run into someone she had not expected to see, sits down at a table in a public house and places her order for “Whiskey. A lot of it”
Shortly after, Jamie and Claire differ on the extent to which she has stabbed him —
“more than once — and—”
“I have not stabbed you!”
“Ye did, too. Ye stabbed me in the backside wi’ your nasty wee needle spikes—fifteen times! I counted—and then a dozen times or more in the leg with a rattlesnake’s fang”
Which I might have skimmed, except I was listening to an audiobook. Maybe I should try again, in printed form. My mother started to ***really *** love me after I got her started on these. And her friends. And their friends.
I got my SILs hooked on them too.
Loved the first three. After that, they’ve gotten progressively more tedious. Outlander covered an amazing amount of ground and then each book has gotten progressively less compact, to the point where I’m reading ad nauseum about Brianna’s sore nipples. Again.
Of course I’ll read “Echo” but I do hope she finishes up the story in the next book. Otherwise, I fear one of us may die of old age before I learn how the story comes full circle.
I’m almost halfway through. Lots of POV from William and Lord John. It’s interesting, but I feel the same way I did in the first novel with Brianna and Roger - I’m jealous of so much time spent away from Jamie and Claire. The beginning read like a mix between the LJ novels and the Outlander novels, but it’s gradually focusing more time with Jamie and Claire.
Only in a novel would you read the stack of letters from your long-lost parents gradually, over a period of weeks, instead of snatching them up and reading them all at once. Makes for a nice way to link the alternate timelines, though.
And like Roger and Brianna, I’m looking up details about the American Revolution as I read.
Exactly, it’s almost like a mash-up, if you can call combining charachters/timelines from two novel series set in the same universe as a mash-up. LOL I also get jealous sometimes about time away from J&C, but I’m more used to it now that I was with Drums, so it’s not quite as jarring.
I tell you one thing that’s helped me in this and my summer re-reading vis a vis the American Revolution is having watched the HBO John Adams miniseries. Still lots of gaps, obvs, but it was a nice refresher. I wish she had a quick list in the back of characters who are real historical figures … sometimes I’m not sure since I’m not deeply familiar with the period, esp. when it comes to military actions. Oh well … just more stuff to look up!
*Sits back, sulking, glass of whiskey untouched, plaid tartan still folded up
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If it doesn’t arrive tomorrow Amazon is going to get a firmly pointed phone call from me. (And don’t tell me phone calls can’t point. You haven’t heard me zing people on the phone.)
picks up the discarded copy of Voyager
places it gently into ivylass’s hands, book already open to the passage where Claire arrives back in Scotland
"Here ya go … and go ahead and sip that whiskey … "
Well, I just finished it. Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!
You’re supposed to savor it, not gulp it down like you’re starving! Now, you can’t wallow!
Don’t say anything specific, but rank it with the other books. I’m sure it’s better than Fiery Cross.
Thanks, Claire. That passage never gets old. And the scene where Jamie sends her back through the stones never fails to make me cry.