By Diana Gabaldon
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 Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Keeping to the theme of the previous two posts, Outlander is now debuting as a TV series on Starz in August 2014. I read the first book, but I could not get through the second one in the series. These are long books, I think the first is around 800 pages or so. I do remember the scenes were dragged out quite a bit and I was scanning through paragraphs to get to the meat of the story. However, a television show will cut out anything unnecessary, so I will be tuning in!
No comments:
Post a Comment