sarasourire (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sarasourire) wrote,@ 2009-04-09 15:31:00 |
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Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (36/365)
From google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=IM1nVG
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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I heard so much great things about this series, I decided to try it out.
While the story is interesting, talk about violent. Apparently there was LOTS of sexual violence in the 1700's in Scotland. Nearly everyone is raped by nearly everyone else at some point in the story. Quite disturbing.
I'll continue with the series though, because I already have it from the library.
From google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=IM1nVG
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
****************************************
I heard so much great things about this series, I decided to try it out.
While the story is interesting, talk about violent. Apparently there was LOTS of sexual violence in the 1700's in Scotland. Nearly everyone is raped by nearly everyone else at some point in the story. Quite disturbing.
I'll continue with the series though, because I already have it from the library.
