a quote on the first page of this book proclaims it's "a feast for ravenous readers of eighteenth-century scottish history, heroism and romance". i'd never have thought this niche existed.the first of a many part series, the book's protagonist is claire randall, an englishwoman readjusting to normal life after world war ii. married before the war, she was separated from her husband at its beginning to work as a combat nurse. claire and her husband are reunited after the war and go on a second honeymoon to scotland. roaming around the scottish highlands one day with a local, claire is taken to a stone henge-ish rock formation where she touches one of the rocks and is hurtled 200 years back in time. scotland in 1743 is rough and war-torn and she is soon caught up with a clan and catapulted into a new life of adventure.
despite it's 850 pages, i breezed through this page turner. there's a lot of fighting, intrigue and sex. yes, sex. lots and lots of sex. so much sex that i was almost embarrassed to read it in public. this novel’s a bit trashy, but well-written and immensely enjoyable. i’m not going to rush to read the sequel, but it was a good respite from my usual literature.
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