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  • I really liked this author's writing style and I found the characters enjoyable, even though not always quite believable. However, the story was a little too smutty to be anything but fluff, but not enough fun to be a guilty pleasure. I found myself rushing through it at the end just so I could be ... Continue

    I really liked this author's writing style and I found the characters enjoyable, even though not always quite believable. However, the story was a little too smutty to be anything but fluff, but not enough fun to be a guilty pleasure. I found myself rushing through it at the end just so I could be done with it. I will try other things by this author because I think there is a lot of potential.

    ETA - I updated this to 3 stars because it's really much better than the other books I ranked as 2 stars, and because I kept thinking back to the characters the day after I finished it and wondering what else might happen to them, so it couldn't have been too dull :)

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on Apr 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Not just another romance

  • This book, often filed with the romance books, does revolve around the relationship between a man and a woman, but don't let that fool you! It has time travel, history, witchcraft, mystery and more all wrapped up in it! Please give it a try. If you like it, don't miss the numerous sequels.

    

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• ― KyotoCutie said on Aug 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  • Highly enjoyable time-traveling romance. Tightly plotted, well-researched, well-written. It's charming and yet wrenching - a very good way to pass a few hours.

    

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• ― guaddess said on May 31, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Claire Randall is leading a double life.  She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart.  For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

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