February 2011 – The Lit Bitch

I feel like it’s been forever since I posted last and I suppose it has, two weeks almost!

The last couple of weeks have been so crazy though, it’s a wonder I haven’t gone completely off the deep end yet! So I admit, I have been dragging my feet a little finishing up the latest Outlander installment, The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon for the Outlander Series Reading Challenge.

I have been entirely consumed by Outlander drama. One of the things I loved about FC was that Claire finally reflected on her time with Jamie and likened their relationship to sponge which just sucked her in–Claire I know EXACTLY how you feel LOL.

For the last six weeks or so I have been sucked into the world that is Outlander the soap opera and I’ll admit, maybe I should have taken a break between books IV and V as there was just so much going on and so many stories happening that I could have used the mental break to sort out and appreciate all that were going on.

But of course I couldn’t help my self and just kept reading right after Book IV. I did feel like FC went a little faster than the others in some ways and I liked that the story alternated between Claire’s, to Roger’s, to Jamie’s, and Brianna’s perspective/voices. I felt like I got a more broad sense of what was going on and it made me want to keep reading, especially when something happened and the character perspective changed–I wanted to hurry up and find out what happened! Overall through–break or not–the book was worth every chapter–as usual. Continue reading “Review: The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon” →

I am cruising along through this series!

I just finished the fourth book in the Outlander Series: Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon.

When I started the Outlander Series Reading Challenge I had no idea I would be flying through these books like no other…..well I suspected but was not entirely convinced. I guess thats what being a book-a-holic is all about though and I should just go with it.

As I have mentioned before in my other posts, if you have not read the books up until this point, read ahead at your own risk….this review might contain spoilers.

Let’s get right in to the good stuff and talk about this amazing book!

So like the others in the series, Drums of Autumn (DOA) picks up right where the previous book Voyager left off with Claire and Jamie reuniting and making a safe landing in the Colonies after escaping the West Indies.

Both Jamie and Claire begin to settle down and fall right into a more or less a ‘domestic routine’. Jamie and Ian are working to build a house, farm, and on-site clinic for Claire. Claire is busy delivering babies and making house calls on those to sick to travel and of course there is lots of ‘mmmphmm’ happening all over the Carolina backwoods territory between Claire and Jamie.

There is also a new set of lovers in the series though….Roger and Brianna are now a ‘thing’ which adds a fun layer to the epic novel. Brianna and Roger are kind of on again/off again but basically love each other and are soul mates until Roger does the unthinkable–he doesn’t tell Bree about a newspaper notice he sees about Jamie and Claire’s death by fire! He is worried that Bree will try to go through the stones and find her mother and father and likely be lost to him forever so he decides to lie and not tell her but all the time he knows it’s not if but rather when he will be found out by Bree….and he is! Continue reading “Review: Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4) by Diana Gabaldon” →

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