#39: Voyager

I am now hooked on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, and I enjoyed this third of seven (so far) novel Voyager the most.

After sharing the news with daughter Brianna that her father lived 200 years ago, Claire decides to return to Jamie upon learning that he did not die at Culloden. Then begins several hundred...a total of 870 pages in all!...of one adventure after another, traveling from Edinburgh to Lollybrach to Jamaica, from life-threatening scene to another.

What I appreciate...besides the characters, the plot, the twists, the turns...is the history so embedded throughout the novel.  Again, as I noted in the previous book review, my knowledge lacks greatly in the area of history, especially in other countries (of course, now, Jamie, Claire, and Ian have landed in America).  Scotland, England, France, Jacobite, King Charles.  Again, this may have been part of the reason for my not being pulled into the first novel as much as I now am into the series...I had to have a few history lessons!

I really, yes, really wish I had begun this series several years ago, for in my attempt to read them all this year for the online challenge, I often feel a bit overwhelmed by the length of every book (you definitely receive your money's worth in this books!), knowing that I have several more to read...and that I have stacks of other books into which I also want to delve.  Plus, I want to have them read before next year's release of book eight Written in My Own Heart's Blood.  Oh, the pressure!  :)

Enjoy!