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Written in my Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8) – Diana Gabaldon
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Oh man. There’s so much here that I COULD complain about. I could complain that this book didn’t really advance any storylines at all. Nothing life-altering happens, no big mysteries are solved, they basically spent the whole book thinking that … Continue reading

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An Echo in the Bone (Outlander #7) – Diana Gabaldon
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I am not cool with this book. I could maybe learn to be OK with leaving the Claire and Jamie chapters to see Bree and Roger in the 80s and living at Lallybroch once in a while, but…I do NOT … Continue reading

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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6) – Diana Gabaldon
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***Spoilers all over the place up in here!*** Well, things definitely happen in this book, evenm though most of it felt like long, unedited, random filler at the time. Fergus is finally around more than the past few books but … Continue reading

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The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) – Diana Gabaldon
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Ugh. I just…I don’t know what to say about these books anymore. It’s so difficult to review these since they’re SO FREAKING HUGE and they don’t necessarily have a theme. So much stuff happens that things that happened in the … Continue reading

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Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4) – Diana Gabaldon
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Drums of Autumn picks up 2 months after the end of Voyager, with Claire and Jamie in America. There’s the most boring and un-dangerous pirate robbery EVER, where Claire decides to A) ignore Jamie being in danger and worry about … Continue reading

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The Lord John series – Diana Gabaldon
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These all seem to be mysteries, which is not generally a genre I’m drawn to. I don’t entirely understand why there are so many books about Lord John, who I always considered to be a rather boring character, but Gabaldon … Continue reading

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Voyager (Outlander #3) – Diana Gabaldon
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So at the end of the last book, Dragonfly in Amber, Claire realizes that Jamie didn’t die after Colloden and so he could still be alive in the past, 20 years later. Well, I don’t really think I’m giving too … Continue reading

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Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
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So, Anna lives in a tiny and poor English town which was infected with a plague in the 1600s. It’s really interesting to see the way the plague began, spread, and was eventually stopped. There are Puritans and witch hunts. … Continue reading

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