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amanda_lodden6. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
I got my sister-in-law in trouble over this book. She lent it to me a long while ago (er, two years ago, give or take), and for reasons I can't identify, I just didn't want to pick it up. So I read around it, choosing other books in the stack instead of this one. It turns out that the book belongs to my niece rather than her mother, and Lisa-Lynn wanted it back, hence the "getting my sister-in-law in trouble" aspect.
As it happens, it was a very enjoyable book, with a few exceptions (a scene in which a husband beats his wife made me cringe, and I frequently wanted to shout at the narrating character "For God's sake, just tell him already.") It's a book firmly in the "sort of" genre-- it's sort of a romance, but sort of an action story, and sort of a sci-fi/fantasy (in that the central character is thrown back in time by 200 years), and sort of a historical fiction. It does all of them relatively well, and I plan to pick up the sequel (though at this point, I might have to buy it, as I'm not sure my niece will let me borrow her books again).
At 845 pages, it was not a quick read, but it was hard to put it down at times.
I got my sister-in-law in trouble over this book. She lent it to me a long while ago (er, two years ago, give or take), and for reasons I can't identify, I just didn't want to pick it up. So I read around it, choosing other books in the stack instead of this one. It turns out that the book belongs to my niece rather than her mother, and Lisa-Lynn wanted it back, hence the "getting my sister-in-law in trouble" aspect.
As it happens, it was a very enjoyable book, with a few exceptions (a scene in which a husband beats his wife made me cringe, and I frequently wanted to shout at the narrating character "For God's sake, just tell him already.") It's a book firmly in the "sort of" genre-- it's sort of a romance, but sort of an action story, and sort of a sci-fi/fantasy (in that the central character is thrown back in time by 200 years), and sort of a historical fiction. It does all of them relatively well, and I plan to pick up the sequel (though at this point, I might have to buy it, as I'm not sure my niece will let me borrow her books again).
At 845 pages, it was not a quick read, but it was hard to put it down at times.
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Date: 2010-02-04 07:55 pm (UTC)All that said, I actually found her spin-off series (the Lord John Grey books, based around a character that you meet in (I think) the second Outlander novel) more engrossing. It's far less exaggeratedly swashbuckling and far more straight-historical-novel (even if that last description is slightly inappropriate, for reasons you'll divine when you meet the character), and a remarkably entertaining set of books.