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Yous're not the but 1. Me, I was seduced into trying this series by the toothsome Sam Heughan. But before long after starting it I felt torn, since the premise is really intriguing, simply the carry-through only isn't at that place. I finished it, but only because I read very apace. I even skimmed through the 2d volume, Dragonfly in Amber, to see if the plotting improved whatsoever over time.
My criticisms are:
1. After the commencement third, there isn't any plotting to speak of, other than a serial of actually tedious capture/torture/rescue scenes. The final half reads like the Perils of Penelope.
2. Claire is probably the most bizarrely incurious narrator I've ever encountered (who wasn't deliberately written as such), which is all the more than wasteful given that the premise provides then very much to exist noticed and investigated.
3. Emotionally there is little interiority in the characters, despite the attempt to sketch them out via their personal histories. What is there I found off-putting. Claire is a married woman who throws teenaged fits of jealousy over a younger woman; Jamie is a grown homo who shuns his own sister for years afterward hearing a vague rumor that she hooked up with a British soldier. It'southward only not compelling character motivation and seems to come directly from the romance genre. Yawn.
Information technology'due south a thousand folio time-travel novel and there is literally ONE SENTENCE roofing what her 17th-century husband asks her about her life in the future.
iv. Historical item? I got all the way through the novel and still had to google who Charles Stewart was and why he was important, what the wars were about, or how the laird organisation worked at this time. At that place is a surplus of minutely descriptive narration of physical details, only an almost total dearth of actual historical exegesis.
I learned far more than about the Ceremonious State of war from Margaret Mitchell than I learned about Culloden from Gabaldon, to requite you a comparison.
5. And yes, the author's obsession with the brutal transgression of physical barriers is as well repelling for me. I just didn't enjoy the lovingly detailed acts of concrete abuse. I understand in that location is an entire established genre of hurt/comfort fiction, just it didn't grip me. The conceit that Claire re-"rapes" Jamie in order to heal him from his own rape is an astonishingly weird take on human being psychology.
I think it's an excellent premise and the bodily writing isn't as awful as another bestsellers, but I wouldn't recommend information technology to anyone.
Part 3 of the volume, after Jamie and Claire's wedding was specially brutal to slog through as it was essentially 100 pages of the 2 of them having sexual practice in various scenarios. The romance just didn't sit well with me. I think that the actors in the prove bring a lot to it that was lacking in execution in the novel class imo.
Besides, what was up with the fact that the book was written in 1st person, but Claire never shows whatever real urgency or drive to figure out what'south going on and go back to her own fourth dimension. Everything happens TO Claire, rather than her acting equally a driving force within the narrative in order to move the plot along.
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I got interested into the book because I kept seeing and so many sexy/sweet gifs on my tumblr dash, so I wanted to bank check the source textile.
At first, it was a decent read, though I got to acknowledge that I was a bit disappointed because I though the sex scene were pretty tame and lame, more of the "fade to nighttime" kind. I also felt a bit bellyaching by the way rape and violence were (gratuitously) over used, especially regarding Jamie'due south back story : I thought it was too heavy handed, used as plot devices to make him look so great and cause sympathy because of what happened to him. Merely I was more or less going along with the story, moving with the flow, even thought I was yet to be really impressed either by the plot or the characters. I kept wondering "why are so many people gushing so much about this book?". I mean even the time travel/magic part isn't even THAT gripping...
And and so, ****SPOILER*** THAT scene/plot happened. The b*** scene. And that was it for me. I didn't gave upwardly, I kept reading, only now, I couldn't read about Jamie and Claire without thinking "that human being the writer wants you to root for is a westward*** b*** who enjoyed b*** his married woman and tried and guilt her into thinking he did it for her ain good and was justified". And information technology worked then well that you lot get many, many people "justifying" this one way or another : historical "accuracy", "Claire's fault", "Claire deserving information technology", and on and on and on. I. Just. Tin can'T.
For instance, that "historical accuracy" argument is only And so Non convincing. 1st of all, just because a book is 500 + pages long of lengthy descriptions of a certain menstruation in time, of the way people spoke and wore their clothes or the swords they were using (or some version of information technology), ready the story in the middle of some specific historical and political events, doesn't make it "historically accurate".
2ndly : the fact that in a certain menstruum women's condition was in many ways worse than now doesn't make information technology "ok"; nor does information technology mean that it was the example for every woman to undergo what Claire underwent; or that it wasn't frown upon by many. You lot know what is too "historically accurate", even by 18th century standard : men who didn't do to their wife what Jamie did to Claire, men and women who thought such behaviour was horrible, men and women fighting against such behaviour. Check this mail most the very same subject field : http://mediaeval-muse.tumblr.com/post....
3rdly : this scene was so unnecessary. Like what was the point of it, actually? Why was is needed? The thing is (and that's make it even more problematic), the writer wanted it to be a pivotal bespeak, so she made it on purpose, she dramatically changed the dynamic of this relationship deliberately choosing to employ violence against woman/domestic abuse to make her point, which seemed to be: NEWSFLASH !!!! Some men used to beat their wives in the 18th century and many (the bulk) didn't think it was bad, they even justified information technology. END OF NEWSFLASH. Besides "see, poor Jamie was beaten besides, which adds to the very long and ridiculous listing of everything poor Jamie had to endure, so see, you should root for him and honey him, isn't he hot?".
This isn't just a lazy writing choice ("using violence/sex/rape and such to "shock" your audience), information technology'south also heavy handed manipulation (the mode this abuse was "justified", 'cause in that location as no inevitability in that choice).
Information technology was simply the last harbinger to me later some other stuff bothering me(like the cartoonish serial rapist sadist bisexual villain who just happened to be the spitting paradigm of his great swell grandson that the author doesn't want you lot to accept any sympathy for).
It definitely ruined the evidence for me, and it pisses me off, 'cause, apart from the fact that I recollect this book feeds into many problematic tropes regarding abuse/ domestic violence/violence confronting women, I was really, actually looking for enjoying the prove and the hotness that is Sam Heughan. And now, I can't enjoy him equally tv Jamie, 'cause tv Jamie is very much based on volume Jamie. And even though I read that this part may exist skipped or re-written ('cause Starz may have realized it put Jamie into a very bad light), the tv show is and so much associated with the volume (and I also read the writer is very much involved into the product and she's been quite dismissive of the legitimate critics of the fashion she handled all that) that information technology doesn't sit right with me to back up information technology even indirectly.
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I watched the Tv set serial -- flavor 1 -- and constitute that I got bored with the plot repetition and lack of any truly interesting insight into history, fourth dimension travel or even human relations. So I decided to read the book (listen actually). I similar the vocalization of the reader and while I found information technology interesting for a flake, I've grown tired of both Claire and Jamie simply so totally focused on getting into each other's pants... Sigh. I wish information technology could take been more than.
ane. The writing is pretty terrible. That's what jumped out at me early on. It's flat, banal, and repetitive; I mean, good Lord, how frequently must we read near the (plain) abundant heather, and Jamie's big easily...
ii. The characters are irksome, and lack actual personality. Well-nigh of them, had their names not been mentioned, would exist impossible to tell autonomously from i some other, and the characters that are a lilliputian more than colorful have personalities that are ridiculous, over the tiptop, and cartoonish.
3. Jamie'southward backstory is ludicrously horrible. It is every bit if the writer thought of every bad thing in existence, and fabricated all of those things happen to him.
4. The belt beating. Deplorable, there is no way to romanticize or alibi that behavior, even if it was more ordinarily accepted at the fourth dimension. Only no.
5. Claire's emotions seem and so shallow, and her responses to the situations that she is thrown into feel unrealistic. I've decided she must exist a sociopath.
I don't think I tin can terminate this volume, fifty-fifty though I feel obligated to, equally I've paid for it and take invested time getting this far into the story. The writing is just too juvenile and clumsy.
But as I went through the volume some chapters nosotros're intriguing and relevant but the overdose of rape scenes and sex really put me off .. by the time I was on the end chapters I actually felt more similar a painfull duty to complete this volume .. the end where Claire helps Jamie from his misery was fashion to unbelievable ... I won't recommend this book until you are a dice heart fan of intense repetitive historical fiction
As I've said before, though, I ever appreciate rule-breaking romances, and Outlander gets plenty of credit from me on that front. Just so, I become a sour taste in my mouth knowing that Gabaldon considers the "romance" characterization such a grave injustice, as if no other romance has ever been so radically subversive or rebelled as much against the formulas of the genre. SMH.
(Volition continue to sentry the testify, though, and I'thou optimistic. A prestige series in the Gold Age of Idiot box could very well do wonders for this early-90s artifact, specially with then many feminist commentators watching closely.)
Television set series and it seemed like an intriguing plot. I take gotten more than than half-manner through, but it bothers me for the reasons it bothered others: Claire is not at all curious or dismayed by her change of living circumstances, not even mentioning not having deodorant, or tampons, or electric lights, or coffee or ANYTHING. That is not at all realistic. And information technology took like 24 capacity earlier Claire finally seemed to miss Frank just a tad bit. She didn't blink an center at marrying Jamie or having sex with him, but randomly felt a twinge manner belatedly in the game. And so piddling angst most how he was doing or how she would get back... information technology's all just as well facile and slow and unrealistic... And that's not even getting into the punishment/rape scene! I'yard still hanging in just to finish, but I definitely wont try the other books. Overall very disappointing. I recall I'll try the Television set series though, considering it seems to be better to most reviewers.
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1. in the capture scene, Claire is tied to the saddle's pommel. Saddles in Scotland in the eighteenth century did not have pommels. They were a nineteenth century American invention for cattlemen, expressly for lariats. English (British, & Scottish) saddles fifty-fifty now do not take pommels.
2. In the preparation for the wedding, Beginning Ned Gowan is belongings the wedding apparel, then suddenly information technology is in the hands of the innkeeper. Within ii sequent sentences.
3. Jane decides to prevarication on a bed when she is ready to give birth. Excuse me? Birthing Stools? Lying down in labour was something imposed outset on Marie Antionette past her doctors, and fashionably spread during the nineteeth century as midwives were sidelined in favour of doctors. Few women would do so past choice.
4. Jane leaves her newborn infant to gallivant in search of Jamie, and returns in order to breastfeed. No wetnurses in a Scottish tenantry?
These are simply the iv that stick in my memory at the moment. There are more. The story is a rattling good read, simply that'south all.
Well I thought Outlander was a pretty awful read. Probably one of the worse books I've read since the Notebook (at present that was a desperately written book!). I did read Outlander (or rather Cross Stitch - which is what it is titled in my part of the world) in it's entirety and information technology was a struggle. It got slightly better for a bit and then returned to being less than impressive.
I also had little preconception about the book when I started so my expectations weren't also high. I had watched the first episode of the TV series, liked it, and and so read the first book.
To brainstorm with the book was quite badly written and yous could tell that the writer was a novice. Equally for the plot information technology was more often than not odd with information dumps, silly conveniences (like Claire not existence as well fertile.. wouldn't want to dampen the romance with a pregnancy). I didn't like how Jamie beat Claire and nearly rapes her. The whole rape re-enactment scene was a load on nonsense too... suddenly Jamie'southward PTSD is stock-still (yay!).
Other than that for a good clamper of the book nothing really happens and I agree that the plot gets lost at times. Some other affair I thought odd was Claire asking Jamie endless questions about himself and Jamie never actually asking Claire virtually herself. It was too one sided and unnatural and to acme it off those conversations got pretty dull.
I was hoping for more to do with fourth dimension travel or magic or something (anything) interesting. Instead nosotros got someone travelling from the future, obsessing nigh local politics and a bit of shagging and snogging thrown in. I guess in a nutshell the book was just lacking, given information technology potential. There was no twisty time plots, no pagan magic. Simply a nothing also special romance and some violence.
And... equally bad equally I detest to say it....
The TV show is much, much improve than the volume. (Because every bit I mentioned, the story is awesome.)
My issue was, and still is, a deep-seated cloy with everything about Claire. I can handle reading books whose protagonists have less-than-adorable personality traits; Scarlett O'Hara isn't someone most of us would choose every bit a BFF, afterward all. Simply in over four decades of avid reading across every genre, I've yet to come across a main graphic symbol with such a collection of arrogance, willful obtuseness, ignorance, pridefulness, selfishness, immaturity, and utter lack of self-sensation.
Her self-congratulatory "humor" is not winsome; information technology'southward appalling. Her observations are steeped in a presumption of kindred feeling from the reader which we do non share. This fourth dimension, I fabricated it to simply about the point in book ii where her arrogant, reckless beliefs put herself, Jamie and Jared into mortal danger dockside. When I realized that I was almost hoping Jamie would rescind his promise never to take a strap to her again, I decided enough was enough.
On the domestic violence issue, I find that I am not as appalled by the inclusion of an incident that is, sadly, perfectly plausible within this context - and it does our female ancestors no justice to deny it - every bit I am at how it was handled. The idea that a young, hubristic, hotheaded, and easily-swayed new husband would allow himself to be pressured into such an otherwise out-of-character attack is dismal only relatively reasonable. That he would then try to justify information technology with tales of being disciplined past his begetter as a child (in means that, even and so, were considered on the stern & strict side); and that any woman would accept such treatment with a smile and a warm welcome back into her bed ... No. But no. Fifty-fifty at the fourth dimension, being "disciplined" by your spouse - all the same accustomed the do was or wasn't - would never have resulted in some ridiculously romanticized coming-of-age moment within the marriage.
Just accept the instance of Jamie's father, who wouldn't even discipline Jamie that mode in one case he was fifty-fifty well-nigh to being a grown human; and who I cannot imagine E'er raised an angry manus to Jamie'due south mother (nor would Jamie have been willing or able to stand past while she was mistreated and then). Or Granny McNab, whose story of braining her husband in retaliation for the one and only time he e'er struck her, we are invited to notice humorous and justifiable. Are we really meant to believe that Jamie - product of a rare and long-lasting love match - grew up seeing the ladies in the Fraser/MacKenzie families treated then? Would Colum always take had his Wife belted in Hall? Not without needing a food-taster to avoid being poisoned at every meal thereafter, for the remainder of his considerably shortened life.
As others have observed, it was just incongruous, unbelievable, disingenuous shock-value storytelling, which completely takes the reader out of the moment (bold they e'er got into it in the offset place), and - like most of Claire'southward bumbling and shoving her way through every pickle her arrogance gets her into - turns what could have been a truly wonderful series into an absolute farce.
I started this book with a lot of expectations and excitement, mainly due to the Idiot box testify, but was utterly disappointed, that I skip-read and more often than not DNF it.
The author makes a mockery of a beautiful human relationship that is dearest. I don't call up whatever was there between Jamie and Claire was love. I tin't even phone call information technology erotic literature, every bit all the so-called sexual practice scenes lacked passion and because of the excuses the writer makes for the numerous sexual encounters between the leads , that it was legally and religiously binding !
All those who loved Outlander and found Claire strong, loyal, feisty, clever etc, Congratulations to you lot! Because my edition of the book surely had a different heroine who had none of these positive qualities. I despised Claire, who had the emotional range of a teaspoon (taking Hermione Granger'south words, with due respect to JK Rowling).
This was written in showtime person, however it failed to bring out her anxiety on how she would go back to her own time, nor did information technology show the sorrow or any emotions about missing her husband and others from her own time. Even when we are privy to her innermost thoughts, there is a lack of depth. Nosotros don't go to know how she feels being in a unlike era. Nosotros know more about Jamie than most Claire though this is from her POV.
The author writes so many pages explaining the scenery, plants, animals, medicines of the 18th century, she fills so many pages explaining each and every sex scene, rape and rape attempts. But couldn't write a few lines describing Claire's feelings.
She just makes half-hearted attempts to render the 20th century and seems to the lowest degree bothered almost the foreign state of affairs she is in.
She just had a bizarre experience when she touched the stone. Got nigh raped ii.5 times. Met men in period costumes talking in Gaelic. She doesn't panic. When she was molested the 2d time, all she says is 'Not again'. She doesn't protest when Dougal molests her. Oh, yes, this is what the author's 'authentic' research shows that raping was a done thing in the 18th century, so our 'strong' heroine accepts this as a office of life.
Her behavior is really inexpensive and slutty. Some examples -
one. On her outset twenty-four hours in the 18th century, she thinks of Frank and starts crying, sitting on Jamie's lap. Jamie consoles her and she thinks if she were a equus caballus she would let him ride her.
2. On the 4th or 5th twenty-four hour period, in the gathering she is flirting with Jamie, feels jealous when she catches him kissing his contemporary (Does she think of her married man and so? oh no, who is he?)
iii. She didn't have the presence of mind to know when to shoot her mouth and when not to.
4. The villain in this book, Blackness Randall, who is Claire'south Great (6 times) grand father-in-law is trying to rape her. He looks so much similar her married man Frank (listen y'all, she had already forgotten Frank by then). For a moment seeing the Blackness Jack up shut, she is reminded of Frank and she is ready to open her legs for him. I nigh puked hither.
Now, to the near of import issue of domestic abuse that she suffered. She accepts the beating saying information technology was her fault that put the clan in trouble. This was as well weird to me. She had been trying to go back to the stones when all these happened. Why did she even care what happened to the association. This should have made her very angry and made her resolve stronger, because her attempt to escape was thwarted and she was beaten to an inch of her life. But no, Claire, being strong and virtuous and all that blah… she accepts it meekly and carries on with her great sexual practice life.
When Jamie finds out that she is from the future and gives her an pick, she chooses to stay back. Her almost important decision making 'algorithm' is literally covered in HALF A Folio.
This from the author who spent atleast 2 pages where Jenny explains how she has because actress sensitive and sensuous during her pregnancy, virtually showing all this in front of her brother and sister-in-police. (why is everyone and then cheap in this book?)
Coming to the life changing decision she makes. Offset she thinks rationally, starting with the mod amenities she would miss. THEN emotionally where Frank is mentioned in passing. So about her muddled wedding vows. Oh ! Really ! I felt extremely sorry for Frank with whom Claire was married for 8 years and he came side by side to the plumbing and hot water baths in the order of priority.
I felt Frank was improve off without Claire. Information technology was non his error that he resembled his evil ancestor.
I would take plant Claire'south apathy acceptable, if whatsoever of the below reasons were behind her decision to stay dorsum in the 18th century
1. She had an extremely unhappy and abusive marriage with Frank. – But that was never the case, Frank was very loving. Infact, her marriage to James was abusive
2. She suffered severe PTSD afterwards seeing the horrors of WW Two and the holocaust, that she establish the discomforts of the 18th century more than adequate.
3. She was sex-starved and was desperate to have Jamie, forgetting the huge leap in timelines. I would take actually appreciated that storyline.
4. In that location was a really actually strong result, that fabricated Claire fall in dear madly with Jamie and forget Frank, her friends, and all the comforts from her own fourth dimension. That result was not the escape from witch-burning, as she had already forgotten Frank by the 2nd twenty-four hour period of her inflow in the by and happily doing information technology 5-times a day with Jamie.
5. she had an undiagnosed medical condition which stopped her from showing any attachment to the 20th Century.
This girl travels in fourth dimension and somehow is used to that way of living similar its nbd. Actually? Chamber pots, castles, uncomfortable wearing apparel, 18th century! and nothing, not one goddam thing about how weird it was for her and how she managed with it all.
The ane affair I hate the most most it though is the Twilighty/50 shades of Gray feeling about this book. Shitty plot line, 1 dimensional characters, a and annihilation to make girls autumn in dear with Jamie. Its the same old story; calm, cool, collected hunky man who has very little emotion. All the girls dearest him but he wont give anyone his fourth dimension of day. Then you lot find out he has a dark past and information technology makes you lot "beloved" him because "aww, he is sensitive"
And then you accept the girl, who the book portrays, as a potent female person lead merely really in between the lines they are helpless impaired-asses (because if a woman wasn't what men would honey her) and the guy has to save them over and over again. They don't think much of the guy at first and don't requite him time of mean solar day then autumn in love with him and go his footling bowwow.
Y'all see what I am talking most. I am done. I don't retrieve I will read any more. This is non fantasy. This is romance. Thats a bad thing.
Then no...you are non the but one who cannot stand this book - at this indicate, finishing it has go a cocky-inflicted torturous mission for me.
Was just wondering if you guys in the The states understand all the Scottish talk?
I have to agree with Lynne, to each his own. I've been in the minority of popular books before, too. Nonetheless, I retrieve information technology'southward a bit harsh to characterization anyone, peculiarly someone chosen "friend" every bit having "questionable taste in reading material" considering your opinion differs on a book. Those "differences" make us unique.
I did find the get-go of Outlander a scrap slow and wasn't sure I'd finish, but I'm glad I did. There are important tidbits that come into play afterward. I came to view this particular book as a carefully woven tapestry that won't be consummate until the series is finished.
Is information technology for everyone? No. My husband reads engineering and technical books for recreation. I don't understand the entreatment or why he enjoys a "how things work" book anymore than he understands why I read western romance, or urban fantasy. Information technology'south a preference, not a matter of "taste."
I concur that the stories aren't for everyone, but for fans of time travel and a unique love story, it has real entreatment for many readers.
So you don't like it, read something else, there are plenty to choose from!
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It's a shame, because I just love a proficient series that sucks yous in and won't permit go, and this is what everyone who reads these books promises. But something is just not there for me. I cannot put my finger on it, merely oh well. There are so many other wonderful books for me to dive into. I will probably once and for all put these books down and never return to them.
Either way I will say this:
I didn't detest the book. But if I hadn't been listening to it on sound I don't think I would have been able to go through it. Yes the human relationship between Claire and Jamie is the most interesting role. But, although I liked Jamie as a grapheme, I wouldn't say he was so swoon worthy that I couldn't stand it. Claire, she was ok. I could accept or go out her. But the others are correct in that it picks up significantly after Claire and Jamie go married. By significantly I mean more than than at the beginning but yes there isnt really a plot; information technology is a bunch of capture and rescue and sex scenes; there'due south very little real historical content (I too had to google a bunch of stuff to see what they were talking virtually in terms of the Scottish and the English); there's manner too much description of random stuff and fluff for my liking; and some of the scenes are weird and don't make sense. I did appreciate some of the descriptions and the general story simply I refuse to finish the series since I barely got through the outset i (my friend is kinda heartbroken about that). I volition, however, be watching the show but to run across how it plays out and because Sam isn't likewise bad on the eyes. Plus at least I know it will be the spark notes version of this book.
So...no you are not the only person that doesn't like this book. And although I empathize how information technology feels to be so die hard for a book and to think everyone should dear it like you do...call up, to each their ain. I don't know what it is only it seems everyone is that fashion about this book. My friend dedicated information technology to the end, even though we had lengthy discussions virtually the details and she even agreed with a bunch of stuff I said. Only she however maintains its admittedly amazing. This volume must put ppl nether a trance, or in a cult or something...
I am a writer myself (full disclosure.) I really don't like her writing, for a few reasons. She had kind of a expert idea. She can write well, when she has the discipline, only she's all over the place. She creates characters and then just dumps them. It's like she indulges herself with "the idea of the twenty-four hour period" and goes off into the weeds, dragging the reader along. In her later books, I found myself skipping entire chapters, and wondering why she didn't have a talented editor. Ego?
Another aspect of her writing that bothers me is her obvious misandry. She seems to delight in torturing men or casting them equally twisted individuals.
I tried watching the series and enjoyed the first few episodes (I know this is a little off topic, merely apparently she has a lot of control over the production) but and so I became disgusted, just equally I had with the books. This began as a romance novel, and devolved into something horrendous. What happened to the love?
And so, ultimately, I felt somewhat used as a reader. I kept hoping she was going to fulfill the potential she showed early on, but it all dissipated into, in my mind, just playing with herself.
I spend a lot of time in Scotland, know the history, and accept many love friends there. She simply skims the surface.
I'm not i to leave bad reviews, preferring to let writers notice their ain ways, but this disturbs me, because information technology's just pop literature, haphazard, and receives too much recognition.
Spoilers abound beneath. Please do not read if you have not finished book 1 and the first 100 pages of book 2.
The things that bothered me:
-Claire's personality - she oft comes off smug to me, or more like Gabaldon writing Claire comes off smug.
-Fourth dimension travel/fantasy elements of the story just seem to be there to get Claire to the past so the rest of the book can be turned into a romance novel. It's just that the supernatural office of this story seems barely there. Peradventure it has a bigger office to play in hereafter books, only it just seemed more device, less integral to the story.
-Jaime's accent - it's extravaganza -ish.
-The beating scene - almost put it downwards at that point - it was done for comedy sake to an extent with her riding a horse the next twenty-four hours and the men chuckling at her expense. Run across? Infuriating! Beating your wife is hilarious!! And Jaime talking to her like a child before delivering the beating... lovely.
-Jaime practically forcing sex on her (um, rape) at 1 point just because he was too damn aroused. Great!
-Odour being mentioned as a factor in Claire'southward embarrassment of having Jaime performing a sure act on her - cheers for that >_<.
-The very villainy gay graphic symbol/great grandpa of her husband; I feel that making your gay grapheme such a villain a little doubtable, and yep I know she has a major gay grapheme in later books - still doesn't feel right. And of grade, your simply gay grapheme HAS to be obsessed with Jaime (aren't nosotros all????) to the point that he needs to concur him prisoner and comfort rape him after beating the living daylights out of him and smashing his hand. >.>
-All of the above is bad, but what actually tipped me over the border, considering it seemed then implausible, was the scene where Jaime and Claire visit his meaning sis, and she's talking about her husband to them and arching her back and practically stroking her own breasts because she just loves that homo! If I were Claire I would have felt tempted to enquire, "do you want to be solitary?" It was just such a strange, creepy scene.
- And then in book two (commencement l or so pages only), pregnant Claire holed up all 24-hour interval in a room waiting for Jaime to return. She occupies her fourth dimension with a little sewing. This is supposed to be our modernistic heroine in the by, a adult female that is forthright, and bold and brave, etc. and all the same, she's content to spend an Entire Day sitting in her one little room waiting for Jaime to render. A room she was just sick in (morning sickness) and then it probably still smells like sick, and she'southward content to only... sew together. Seriously? And so, the best part, Jaime returning to her boozer and twice having sexual activity with her in his drunken state, and her just chuckling and thinking him mannerly for just climbing all over her. Sigh. At that place's that smug feeling again coming through the writing. Similar, Oh ho ho, isn't Jaime just adorable when he'southward being all rapey?
-and it drives me crazy when they list these books on fantasy or sci fi sections of books. They are neither.
What did I like nigh the books?
The idea for the story is unique. I like the employ of the continuing stones as this portal.
I similar that Claire wears both wedding ceremony rings.
I like that Claire's husband was a skilful father to her daughter.
I similar Claire using her nursing background in volume one ofttimes. And so condign a physician by book 2.
I similar reading meaty, long books then I don't agree that the book was too slow - I like reading a lot of detail.
I like that Jaime is a younger homo than Claire.
Oh and I must add that information technology did often brand me chuckle how disheveled Claire was on and then many occasions, describing herself as a fright.
So, overall, I have some very serious issues with these books; there are some things that I would say are extreme or destructive in them, and I'm not a particularly skittish reader. The comfort rape being perhaps one of the sickest parts if you ask me; I retrieve on tumblr people posting the video of that scene from the testify and just gushing away near how crawly it was. I'm deplorable - he's being raped. Nuff said.
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