Outlander

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Has anyone read any of these?! We have been watching the TV series so downloaded the first book on my kindle yesterday. I am 50% in already!

Do they stay this good?!

Oh yes, I love them i have read most of them, just one to go I did find one of them, The Fiery Cross I think, quite tedious with not much happening but the next one picked up.

I am going to be very sad when I finish them all.

I'm about 5 in, all good so far :-)
I hope the history is accurate, a few years have past now and I'm in an era and place I'm not familiar with...

The first one is excellent. One of my all time favourites. I also loved the following three books but I haven't read any further yet. The Fiery Cross (number 5) is a huge book and apparently a bit of a struggle to get through so I've been putting it off.

I’m on the second book now-it is very good.

SPOILER alert if you haven’t read it...

Her going to the churchyard and finding Jamie’s grave was horrid though :(

I presume we will find out that (we are watching it at the same time but only on series 2 episode 2!) that Jamie didn’t die at Culloden and she has spent 20 years living with Randall (not sure I’d be able to sleep with Frank looking that much like Jack!) when she could have been with Jamie!

Are the standing stones like the Delorean in Back to the future where you can type in the year you go to, or does time pass at the same rate in the past?!

The Fiery Cross is terrible, very boring but the others are really good.

Is it possible to just skip The Fiery Cross? Or would book 6 then not make much sense?

There are some really good parts in The Fiery Cross and lots worth reading. You couldn't skip it as you'd miss some pretty important plot points, particularly around Roger, that have implications for the following books. Diana's books do tend to have quiet bits and then more action paced parts, I think some find the quieter ' at home' parts trickier to get through and Fiery Cross has quite a few of them. I did read that the publishing of Fiery Cross was rushed through and that Diana didn't have as much time to edit it as she normally would so that's why it's a bit longer in places than normal. It's not a terrible book by any means though. I'm rereading at the moment and I missed a lot the first time.

Started reading them 20yrs ago (I'm 35) and we live 5 mins from filming in Glasgow and originally from Fife so I know those locations too.

Watched seasons 1-3 and loved them too.