 "Outlander" | 2008-09-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1E48HZ5PNM2IF |
| Great Book once you get through the first 100 pages or so, then I couldn't put it down. The love between these two characters (Jamie and Claire) is amazing. |
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| "spellbound" | 2008-08-20 |
| - Reviewed By lwest127 |
| What can I say about Diana's fourth outlander series. I was truly spellbound. I can not wait to get my hands on the Fiery Cross. I can't wait to find out what more could possibly happen to Claire and Jamie. What an amazing love story!!! |
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| "great" | 2008-08-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1T68K6M20DL6W |
The book came quicky and was in excellent shape. The book itself is really, really wonderdul!
This is some of the best historical fiction I have ever read. I'm re-reading the entire series. |
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| "Historical Adventure...I Love It" | 2008-07-15 |
| - Reviewed By mechalke |
Diana Gabaldon is an amazing story teller. I really enjoyed this the fourth installment in the Outlander series.
I don't know what I could say about this book that someone hasn't already said. I will add my two cents and say that I like the character Brianna. I think that it's important to put into perspective that she comes from a time when people aren't considered adults at the ripe old age of seventeen. And she has been given a lot to deal with in a short period of time, she seems a bit impulsive and immature but she's twenty two years old...
I enjoyed the love story between Brianna and Rodger and the adventures in Drums were just as exciting as all the others.
I am hooked! I will be reading ALL of the books in the series! It's wonderful escapist adventure with a fabulous background in historical fiction.
If anyone knows if there are more books coming out after Snow and Ashes will you let me know...I read in The Outlandish Companion that Gabaldon was going to publish a prequel to Outlander and I tried to find out more but couldn't.
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 "The Time Shifting Clan Grows" | 2008-05-16 |
| - Reviewed By brett2028 |
| A little scattered, with multiple shifting narratives, this fourth installment is still enjoyable for those who have been smitten with the Scottish Highlander Jamie and his time shifting wife Claire. I actually didn't find the book boring like some reviewers have, I just found it repetitious. Where the arrival of some characters from the earlier books are welcome and fun (Lord John for example) there is a recycled element to the book that left me wanting less of Brianna and her betrothed Roger, and more of Jamie and Claire. Once again she employs a pretty generic and stock villain who left me wondering is somebody always going to be raped in these stories?And while the first three books had some pretty terrific climaxes, this kind of peters out with a whimper. Still, the fact that this woman can clock a book in a over a thousand pages and still make it hard to put down, any quibbles feel pretty minor. |
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| "Time Out" | 2008-04-29 |
| - Reviewed By iblack19 |
Jamie and Claire establish a settlement deep in the North Carolina mountains far from the winds of change which has racked their lives. But the DRUMS OF AUTUMN concerns their daughter Brianna and the man who loves her enough to travel through time, Roger.
Neither of the second generation are strong enough to compete with the power of Jamie and Claire Fraizer. Time outs stop a story in its tracks and this installment in the series is no exception. If the reader is familiar with the story and has read the previous books then it is an acceptable read. But as a stand alone the title does not have enough substance to sustain it.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS. |
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| "Gabaldon" | 2008-04-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: ASD6QTCGEKPES |
| I bought this for my wife. This is her third time through the series. She decided that it is easier to buy them than to continue to check them out at the local library, as she intends to read the series several more times. It must be really good. |
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 "4th in the OUTLANDER SERIES" | 2008-03-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1XKQX71GJASJR |
| Outlander is a series of 6 books, quite large in volume. When I first read Outlander, I loved this story, and I loved the characters. But by the time I finished this book I wasn't sure I wanted to read the next one and find out what happened to Jamie and Claire. But as I said, I was now engrossed with the people and the story and so I continued. I am now half way through the 4th novel (Drums of Autumn) and already own the last two (pre-purchased A Breath of Snow and Ashes). And I STILL wonder WHY I am continueing to read these! And here is why, Diana Gabaldon writes in DETAIL right down to the dirt on someones shoes. And she says so and so got chills and not because the room was cold; so many times you want to wretch. She writes pages and pages and pages of things that have nothing to do with the story. You really begin to wonder where she is headed and you start to feel that she is either wasting your time or she just likes the sound of her own voice. OR she enjoys BEING this character right down to the last thought and shiver. I find myself speed reading through some passages looking for when we are going to get back on track. Don't get me wrong, she is BRILLIANT!! If you love historical fiction, you WILL love her writing and you will LEARN alot about living in the time she writes about as well as the Scots. She does her homework, her research is impeccable and she has a cult following with this series. It is a great story and I will read all of them, I just think she could have written the SAME story in half the time. So forewarned is forearmed with Diana Gabaldon. If you have tons of time to kill, this is your book! |
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 "No excitement, no plot, boring characters! What happened?" | 2008-02-25 |
| - Reviewed By amyiw |
The only really great book of Gabaldon's was Outlander or "Cross Stitch" and it certainly got my emotions up. I flung the damned book accross the room at the ridiculousness of the wolf scene. It was just too much but that was close to the end of the book and I was already hooked. It became one of my favorite books. I loved the characters and read the next 2 books and they were very enjoyable but not new or great, just good. This fourth book I read and barely got through. Claire and Jamie by this point are no longer interesting and the erotica are the only interesting points and I don't pick up a 900 page book for erotica (bad at that). What stupid scenarios are in this book. I couldn't like Briana and what's his name, idiot or the situations they got into. 'In the fronteer you leave a woman unprotected?' He is a historian for **##* sake. It dragged a lot and didn't really have a good plot or direction and the adventure had died.
I did finally get through this book hoping that it would improve to at least half of the 2nd or 3rd books enjoyability. The only thing that it did was continue the story. The next book was even worse if you can believe it and after a 1/3, I ended up skimming through to get the story. I haven't even opened the 6th because of the 4th and 5th. It was given to me Christmas a year ago. It did get better reviews but I just couldn't handle another waste of time like the 4th or 5th book just to see where these characters were going. |
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| "Great continuation" | 2008-02-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1W5KE2QJ1I9I5 |
| This is a great book and a wonderful continuation. It is book 4 in the series. I couldn't wait to read more about Jamie, Claire, Roger and Brianna. This book answers a lot of questions from the previous ones and has a lot of nice suprises!!! |
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