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A review by cooperca
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1.0
If I were a 13 year old girl in junior high, I would have loved this book. As such, I am not an adolescent looking for a historical romantic novel full of trite romantic dialogue, dull characters and lackluster action. After being told of how great this series was, I was very excited to get lost in the adventures of a young woman (Claire) who finds herself transported back in time – from 1945 to 1742. Oh, those measly 200 years. It took her no time at all to adjust to her new surroundings and forget her husband! You know the one Claire, the one you have back in 1945. But that’s OK because she soon finds his replacement and the sex is much better. But for the reader the sex scenes left us unsatisfied and disappointed.
What can one say about Claire – dull, annoying, mindless. Everything she does is only in reaction to the world around her and acts surprised every time she finds herself close to being killed. If the author was trying tell a story, it would have been nice if Claire actually had some personality and actually wanted to do something other than scream or have sex with her cute 23 year old Catholic former virgin warrior (with whom she has incredible sex and loses all interest in her husband or getting back to 1945). I’d let you in on the storyline, but unfortunately there isn’t one. It just goes from Claire fucking up and almost getting killed to just fucking her cute 23 year old Catholic former virgin warrior. Wow, for 632 long, boring pages – that’s it. The only time it came close to being interesting is when she realized there were others who had also gone back in time (this was during a time when Claire had fucked up and was on trial for being a witch – yea, can you believe even that was written with no intensity). That whole, other people who’ve traveled back, would have made for an interesting plot twist, but sadly it died quickly. Unfortunately the book did not and I drudged through to the bitter end. Do yourself a favor, use this book as kindling and find another book to read by the fire. Maybe ‘Jane Eyre’ or ‘A House at Riverton’ --
What can one say about Claire – dull, annoying, mindless. Everything she does is only in reaction to the world around her and acts surprised every time she finds herself close to being killed. If the author was trying tell a story, it would have been nice if Claire actually had some personality and actually wanted to do something other than scream or have sex with her cute 23 year old Catholic former virgin warrior (with whom she has incredible sex and loses all interest in her husband or getting back to 1945). I’d let you in on the storyline, but unfortunately there isn’t one. It just goes from Claire fucking up and almost getting killed to just fucking her cute 23 year old Catholic former virgin warrior. Wow, for 632 long, boring pages – that’s it. The only time it came close to being interesting is when she realized there were others who had also gone back in time (this was during a time when Claire had fucked up and was on trial for being a witch – yea, can you believe even that was written with no intensity). That whole, other people who’ve traveled back, would have made for an interesting plot twist, but sadly it died quickly. Unfortunately the book did not and I drudged through to the bitter end. Do yourself a favor, use this book as kindling and find another book to read by the fire. Maybe ‘Jane Eyre’ or ‘A House at Riverton’ --