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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385342452
Edition: First edition, as stated
ISBN: 0385342454
Label: Delacorte Press
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 832
Publication Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Studio: Delacorte Press
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Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.
Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.
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I love the Outlander series, but I must tell you this book was about 300 pages to long. Very wordy, random, to many additives about nothing -- all over the place, and so many loose ends. At times it was just totally "off the wall"! (my thoughts were, where did this come from, or where is that going - never to find out) To much William getting lost in the fog, on and on and on ... to much John Gray and Hal who, all of the wounded all of the time. Jem the gold, the guy after the gold, Rogers five times Great-Grandfather, the confession at the Murray table when Claire tells them where she's from, telling Michael about Pairs in ten years, how not so devastated Claire was when finding out about Jamie, the John Gray sex, it was all so bizarre! And what was up with the ending? I feel like I started five different books, but did not finish one.
DG, as a great story teller had lots to tell about, with Claire & Jamie, homeless, gold, ending the war, Ian, The Hunters, Fergus and he's roots, Dottie, the sick brother, Jenny, old Ian dying, the trip back to Scotland, letters to Brie. Hopefully it will not take 4 years to put this Potpourri together in the next book.
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I love much of DG's work, but there are now a couple of books in the series that I can live without: "The Fiery Cross" and this one. I really hope she regains her narrative focus in the next one. As for the ending....my reaction was not good. I almost wish I hadn't read it. And please, let us hope the next one is the last one. And that she drops all the multiple story lines and focuses on Jamie/Claire and Roger/Bree. She is trying to write too many books at once, and it isn't working.
So, for all you Outlander fans, read this book but don't expect her best. And let's hope for better from the next one!
Rating:  -
Cons:
1. Too. Long.
2. Front-loaded with superfluous detail where it isn't needed, and then sparsely written at the end.
3. Numerous continuity errors, both within the book itself, and in relation to previous volumes.
4. I'm attributing it to her writing style, but this book is quite a choppy read. It's hard to stay focused on where--and when--you are.
5. There are entirely too many loose ends at the conclusion of the novel. I don't know about you, but at the end of 800+ pages, I want some resolution. Questions left unanswered? Tolerable, sure. But hand-over-mouthing and OH MY GOD-ing over SEVERAL unresolved plot arcs is not, considering that the next installment is years away.
6. I realize that the scope of the story has broadened immensely since its beginnings, but why is the Claire and Jamie gone? Or, rather, diminished? The title should start off as, "Lord John and..."
Pros:
1. Yay, we get a little more Jamie/Claire.
2. Yay, we get more Roger/Brianna.
3. Yay for more time travel mythology.
4. Young Ian--we loves him, Precious.
5. Some spoilery William Ransom stuff.
Other comments:
It's not an easy read, and by the end you'll be pulling your hair out and WHAT-ing all over yourself, but if you've come this far in the series, and you have time on your hands and and urgent need to know what happens next, I say go for it.
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I am really enjoying listening to the new Clara and Jamie book. WOW are there a lot of CD's. I'll be listening well into 2010.
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I don't even know where to begin.. this was not at all what I was expecting. I had beleived this was the last book in this series and if it is.... it's not. There are too many things left hanging not her best work. And I loved the other Outlander series books.
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