Watched the first 8 or 9 episodes of the series and bloody loved it! Time Travel! Plucky heroine! Sam Hueghan in a kilt! I could get lost under that kilt forever.
Anyhoo, so high on dramatic bag pipe fumes I downloaded the book and the first half had me gripped with its trashy sexy goodness. I was reading while pushing the buggy and my poor kid was being bounced into walls. Omg there are 7 more of these bad boys, goodbye all future spare time and accident free buggy trips. But then misgivings started to creep in. 'Hmm, it's quite a bit rapey this.', 'Wow, 18th century fort security is rubbish!', 'Am I supposed to be finding this domestic violence.. cute?', 'See you later witch trial plot!' etc.
Despite these eye rolls I was still fairly into it and cared enough about the characters to want to know what happened to them. And then the whole wolf, cows and ridiculously unsecured back door of a prison caper went down. I mean come on, there was obviously no cctv back in the day but bitch, please.
I'll happily suspend my belief for a time traveling nurse, if the story is good enough I'll go along with pretty much anything. But the spell was well and truly broken when she paused in her implausible prison break to kill a wild wolf with her bare hands. And as I was so near the end, I had to hate-read It through. What. The. Fahhhhh. I don't know about you guys but when I try and solve my violent sex problems with drugs and more violent sex, I tend to end up with more problems, not less.
I don't think I've experienced such a vast, crashing disappointment of a denouement before. Despite the extreme sexiness of Sam Heughan and the excellent production values, I can't even bring myself to finish the TV series. At least my daughter will be safe from being strolled into walls because those books are now nothing more to me than a million pages of Hell No.
Ah that feels better. Totally needed to get that off my chest, I don't know anyone irl that fell down the Outlander rabbit hole. Love to hear anyone else's take.