It’s not a book with a clear beginning, middle and end.
There’s not really a coherent through line. The other thing was that I was deep into my Christmas baking and had a lot of time to listen and I was grateful that I did not need to concentrate much on the story to follow it. I listened to it and probably the main reason I rated it as highly as I did is because Davina Porter is an excellent narrator and I could probably listen to her recite the dictionary. There is some graphic and squishy violence – spoiler alert – one secondary/tertiary character is mauled by a bear and there are some war wounds described but all in all this is probably the least graphic book of the series. There are references to prior rapes (Claire’s, Brianna’s, Jamie’s – this is not an exhaustive list by the way) so readers should note it’s not a rape-free book altogether but no-one is actually raped in this book. That it would be full of rape and torture and I’d be unable to manage it.
I’m well aware of its flaws – the main one being how in previous books it crossed way over into torture porn territory (arguably it did that in book 1 but my tolerance has changed a lot over the years). There will be one more book – I’ll read it, for the same reasons – and then the series will be done.
And there are a lot of bees.Īt this point the main reason I’m continuing with the series (and this was true for the prior book too) is because I’ve invested too much into it to quit. As it happens, the TL DR is this: It’s very long, not a lot happens but at least no-one is raped. Ordinarily it would be supremely difficult to sum up such a long book in a review. The long-awaited book 9 of the Outlander series is a doorstopper (like most of the earlier books). Read at your own risk.ĬW: discussion of sexual assault (non-graphic), graphic violence Spoiler alert: There are probably spoilers. Kaetrin Book Reviews / C Reviews American Revolutionary War / Historical / SFF / time travel. JanuREVIEW: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
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