Book Review: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

 

What if your future was the past?

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband’s six-times great-grandfather.

Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats.

Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.

My Review

I can sum up this book with just two words - Jamie Fraser!!

This book was brilliant from start to finish. Poor Claire, thrown through time into a perilous world where she meets the love of her life. I can understand now why this book has been so incredibly successful. Once started, I could not stop reading, and I stayed up half the night to finish it. I really cannot praise this book enough. This is the kind of book that I am sure I will be reading over and over again. Bring on book 2!! 

Where to buy

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