The Fiery Cross (Outlander)
by Diana Gabaldon
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Author: Diana GabaldonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0440221668
Number of pages: 1472
Publisher: Dell
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- ISBN13: 9780440221661
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Fiery Cross (Outlander)
Book Review: I LOVED IT!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a WONDERFUL book! I LOVED IT! Not to say I didn't like the other 4, I did, but I throughly enjoyed THE FIERY CROSS. I will grant you it was slow in parts, well quite a few parts, but that didn't stop me from wanting to "turn the page" to see what happens next.
I love the mystery of her books, the historical aspect, the real people she borrows from the historical records and peppers them throughout her novels; that I end up Googling later to read more about.
What I liked about this book was how it made me laugh and cry. I thought Roger went through a lot in the previous book, but it wasn't anything like what he went through in this one! I cried for a good 5 minutes distressed over what was happening to him...I did the same with poor Jamie. I also laughed in quite a few passages as well. There were other characters I fell in love with as well...namely the animals of the book...Adso and Rollo.
The antics of the children, especially Jemmy and Germain, had me laughing out loud and picturing their mischievousness in my mind. My favorite scene was when Germain wanted his mommy to shoot the "bad man". Bloodthirsty little mite! Then proudly bragged later on of her firing the shot. Another favorite scene was of the passenger pigeons (now extinct) passing overhead. I could imagine what such as sight might have been like since during the colonial era they were quite numerous, numbering in the thousands if not millions "blanketing the sky" at one time. And while Roger was on a surveying mission his seeing the now extinct Carolina Parrot. If nothing else, DG brought back these two extinct species and let them live once more, even though it was through the pages of a book.
Though some might find her historical details a bit daunting and boring, I find them fascinating and grateful that she went through so much trouble to research the era.
A very entertaining book making me eager to start A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES. I can't get enough of Gabaldon's characters!
Summary of The Fiery Cross (Outlander)
Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon?s new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her.In the ten years since her extraordinary debut novel, Outlander, was published, beloved author Diana Gabaldon has entertained scores of readers with her heart-stirring stories and remarkable characters. The four volumes of her bestselling saga, featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century, time-travelling wife, Claire Randall, boasts nearly 5 million copies in the U.S.
The story of Outlander begins just after the Second World War, when a British field nurse named Claire Randall walks through a cleft stone in the Scottish highlands and is transported back some two hundred years to 1743.
Here, now, is The Fiery Cross, the eagerly awaited fifth volume in this remarkable, award-winning series of historical novels. The year is 1771, and war is approaching. Jamie Fraser?s wife has told him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy?a time-traveller?s certain knowledge. To break his oath to the Crown will brand him a traitor; to keep it is certain doom. Jamie Fraser stands in the shadow of the fiery cross?a standard that leads nowhere but to the bloody brink of war.
The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. Historical fiction fans who have waited four long years since the publication of Drums of Autumn will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of The Fiery Cross. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! --Alison Trinkle
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