Sniffing A Book

Author:  Diana Gabaldon Read:  9/21/2017 Pages:  870 Rating:  3/5 Format:  audio Response: Voyager  was an exciting third book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabladon. It was full of adventurous from start to finish. But it was also far fetched in a lot of ways. A lot of the story line was not believable as far as coincidences go. I still have so many questions on how things came to be. Like how does Young Ian go from not a good sacrifice because he had sex, to having more sex, and then being the sacrifice? And how did Jamie convince the French soldiers to follow him as their leader? And how did Jamie find Clare so easily after being taken by the English? I honestly would've preferred if the rest of the book was spent looking for each other and then book 4 was looking for Ian. That would've made a lot more sense and would've cut down on the mini quests they had. It felt like Gabaldon was just looking for more obstacles to throw in t...

Author: Diana Gabaldon Read: 8/9/2017 Pages: too damn long (743 pages = just shy of 39 hours) Rating: 3.75/5 Format: audio Book Description: 20 years later Claire Randall returns to Scotland with her full grown daughter. It's there with Brianna and Rodger, that Claire tells them the truth of the events that led up to Brianna's birth. Including an ancient circle of standing stones, a love that crosses time, and about Jamie Fraser. Her story picks up where Outlander left off, with the Pairs court and Charles Stuart  to contend with, Jamie and Claire are in a race to change history. Response: I picked this book up right after I finished Outlander and was extremely confused about the time jump to the 1960s and how we got there. It's eventually explained after a couple of chapters, but it would've been nice to just continue on from Outlander and save, what could've been a realization that Clarie's telling the story, for the last f...

Author: Diana Gabaldon Read: 3/24/2017 Pages: 850 Rating: 4/5 Format: Audio Book Description: The year is 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is 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 stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach - an "outlander" - in a Scotland torn by war and raiding boarder 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. Response: Thanks to Audible, I was able to get through this terrifyingly long book. I just want to r...