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itle: OutlanderAuthor: Diana Gabaldon
Genre: Fiction, SciFi, Historical, Fantasy
Synopsis: World War II is finally over and army nurse Claire Randall is on her 'second honeymoon' in the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank. The two had been separated for much of the war. While exploring the stone circle Craigh na Dun for flowers alone, while Frank was searching for his ancestors with a local historian, Claire gets pulled back in time 200 years. Using what she learned from Frank about local history, survival skills learned from growing up with an archaeologist uncle, Claire has to navigate life in the 18th-century Highlands and try to get home to Frank. When she meets some Highlanders on the road her life changes forever.
My Thoughts
I am guilty of picking this book up, reading the back cover, and putting it back down on probably five separate visits to the bookstore. I would always think, 'time travel it is so far fetched!' Then, not realizing it was based on the book I kept rejecting, I started watching Outlander on Netflix because it popped up as a 'recommended for you' suggestion over and over. Well, I loved it. When I realized that it was that book series, having not committed the book title to memory, I knew I had to read it.
Outlander season one stays very true to the first novel of the series. A few changes to make it fit better for TV make slight chronological differences, but the same main events occur. The novel is also told from Claire's perspective so anything that happens when she is not around isn't seen, but sometimes described later by other characters. Often, this makes some of the more gruesome scenes from the show less so in the book. In the show, they portray some scenes where Claire is not present as they happened, especially those concerning Jamie.
I know I'm late to the game on this one, but seriously I cannot wait to read more from this series.
Comment below if you have read this book or have suggestions for others like it!
To buy this book from Amazon now, click on the image at the top of the post.
To see more from the author, visit the website linked above
I am guilty of picking this book up, reading the back cover, and putting it back down on probably five separate visits to the bookstore. I would always think, 'time travel it is so far fetched!' Then, not realizing it was based on the book I kept rejecting, I started watching Outlander on Netflix because it popped up as a 'recommended for you' suggestion over and over. Well, I loved it. When I realized that it was that book series, having not committed the book title to memory, I knew I had to read it.
Outlander season one stays very true to the first novel of the series. A few changes to make it fit better for TV make slight chronological differences, but the same main events occur. The novel is also told from Claire's perspective so anything that happens when she is not around isn't seen, but sometimes described later by other characters. Often, this makes some of the more gruesome scenes from the show less so in the book. In the show, they portray some scenes where Claire is not present as they happened, especially those concerning Jamie.
I know I'm late to the game on this one, but seriously I cannot wait to read more from this series.
Comment below if you have read this book or have suggestions for others like it!
To buy this book from Amazon now, click on the image at the top of the post.
To see more from the author, visit the website linked above
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