"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only once." Jojen - A Dance With Dragons
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Finished: Voyager (Gabaldon) Jamie and Claire are finally reunited in the third book of the Outlander series! A good book, rather long as all of them are. In Voyager, Claire does travel back in time with her daughter Brianna's blessing, to find the love of her life and Brianna's father, Jamie. Claire leaves Brianna with her blossoming love Roger, and though it breaks her heart to do so, they all know she must go. So, of course, Claire does find Jamie working under an assumed named. It's been twenty years so he faints...the big, strong Scottish dude faints when he sees Claire! There are a lot of things they need to tell each other that happened in those twenty years, i.e., love lives, careers, near deaths (lol), etc., but their love and attraction are as strong as ever and they soon fall back into each other's arms. Fergus, the young French boy Jamie pretty much adopted is there and now thirty years old! Also, Jamie's sister Jenny, her husband Ian, and their brood are all in tact. As a matter of fact...their youngest son, fourteen year old young Ian is the impetuous for the story as he is captured by pirates which leads Jamie and Claire on a voyage to Jamaica to bring him home. Eh, all the ship adventure stuff really wasn't my cup of tea, but I still couldn't stop reading. :-) Claire has a few surprise revelations about Jamie...like how he married the widowed Laoghaire (the girl who was in love with him in the first book and was responsible for having Claire nearly put to death as a witch) to keep her and her daughters out of harms way and provide for them. And, Claire finds out about Jamie's young son, Willie, late in the book. John Grey makes another appearance as the new Governor of Jamaica, and his love for Jamie is still very evident...another shock for Claire. However, he does help them find Ian and escape the clutches of the military who are still after the seditious Jamie. The biggest shocker of the book is that the person responsible for kidnapping young Ian is the very much alive Geillis Duncan, the "witch" from the first book. She's actually a fellow time-traveler like Claire and she has gone mad, presumably with syphilis. She plans to sacrifice Ian at an alter and time travel back to Claire and Jamie's daughter, who she believes to be the fated savior of Scotland and England, now that Geillis knows of her existence. Mother bear Claire puts an end to Geillis and Jamie, Claire and Ian flee the magic rocks on the island before they can suck Claire forward in time again. Yes, there is apparently more than one set of magic rocks throughout the world. So, once back on the boat, a huge hurricane hits and nearly kills them all. Shipwrecked on what they think is yet another island, but being cared for in a home by a nice lady....when Jamie and Claire ask where they are, the lady says, why, you're in the Georgia colony of America...and the book ends. So, book four will pick up with Jamie and Claire's (and young Ian's and Fergus') adventures in pre-Revolutionary War America I suppose. At least they can be themselves and Jamie no longer has to run from the law. :-) I'm going to take a break from Jamie and Claire for awhile, now that they're together and read some other books I've been wanting to read!
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