Journal Entry 1 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, July 09, 2007

The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy — a time-traveler’s certain knowledge.

Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time — 1743 — when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army.

Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor — Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead — or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.... 

Journal Entry 2 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, January 18, 2010

It was definitely time to get back to Jamie and Claire and their life together. Once again, I'm amazed at just how much these people can go through, good and bad times. But I can say that as long as the book was and as long as it took me to read, I was never bored and I enjoyed the time I spent with these characters.