My second surprise is probably due to the fact that I am now an author myself and therefore look at the writing a bit more closely as to handicraft.
I skipped Dragonfly in Amber for the simple reason that I didn’t enjoy the time in France and continued with Voyager. I knew, practically by heart, all the gruesome things that were going to happen and I was not up to it. First of all, I didn’t make it through the first book. By the time I reached An echo in the bone (7), I was in total awe of the ability of Herself to keep the tension of the story high over such a long stretch of time. I have read this story approximately eight times before moving on to the sequel as I was convinced it would not live up to the magic of the first book. The first book in the series is one of my most-read books ever, bringing to life my memories of various visits to Scotland. The book contains three Outlander family trees, which are somewhat helpful.Last year, I started re-reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in preparation for the release of book 9, Go tell the bees that I’m gone. The extended Fraser clan also includes children born out of wedlock, stepchildren, adopted children (and adults), along with lovers and spouses acquired in the decades since Jamie and Claire first met. These include Brianna, her daughter fathered by Jamie but raised in the 20th century by Claire and her former husband, as well as Brianna’s husband, Roger, and their children, additional outliers from the future.
A World War II British Army nurse, Claire now uses her skills as a healer to tend to the many residents of Fraser’s Ridge. Claire is an outlander (a stranger) from the mid-20th century who, after many years living in the 18th century, has mostly adapted to life among folks unfamiliar with penicillin, automobiles or Dr. Jamie Fraser, Highland Scot and paterfamilias of a large and complexly related clan, has settled there with his time-traveling wife, Claire.
The novel opens in the summer of 1779, on Fraser’s Ridge in the North Carolina Colony.
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