She has made these characters come to life in a way that few present-day authors can. But I say that with love, because Gabaldon doesn't need a plot. Clocking in at 902 pages long, you would be inclined to think there will be some epic storytelling going on in this bad boy, and you would be wrong. I honestly think Gabaldon forgot how to make a book have a plot. Was this book worth that long wait? Well.yes and no. I think seven years of waiting means this definitely qualifies as my most anticipated book of the year if not the decade. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity-and thus his own-and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s-among them disease, starvation, and an impending war-was indeed the safer choice for their family. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.īrianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again.

but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be.

Tell the bees that i have gone