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An Echo in the Bone: Outlander Novel 7

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One personal pet peeve...In an interview about Echo, D.G. promised that she would reveal why Jamie could dream the future, how/why he saw Claire in the future, and resolve the Jamie GHOST from Outlander....where he stares up at Claire and Frank's room BEFORE Claire falls thru time. Nope. Not in this book.

Ian Murray, Sr - Jamie Fraser's childhood/lifetime best friend. Married to Janet "Jenny" Fraser, Jamie's beloved older sister. Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won't include Jamie's life or his happiness, though – not if she has anything to say about it. Dennis Scott wrote in Jamaica’s post-independence period. He had a distinguished career as a poet, playwright, actor (he was Lester Tibideaux in the Cosby Show), as a dancer in the Jamaican National Dance Theatre, as Editor of Caribbean Quarterly and as the Director of the Jamaica School of Drama,and visiting Associate Professor of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. Scott was a polymath. I believe she tried to inspire in us the fear of father vs son on the battlefield....but it came across as so much of a history lesson that the drama we crave got buried. I was very bored with the amount of time spent developing battles.... There were so many other things brought to the story in the end that could have been fleshed out during the meat of the story. We were hurried thru so much of the stuff that D.G. normally makes us see and feel deeply. We also get to visit familiar and well-loved characters such as Jamie’s adopted son Fergus and his wife Marsali (who herself is Jamie’s stepdaughter from his marriage to Laoghaire); a subplot involving a medical emergency for Fergus and Marsali’s son Henri-Christian, who suffers from a form of dwarfism, is pretty engrossing. (I do like the medical facts you include in these books; they are generally described in layman’s terms so I feel like I’m learning something while being just lurid enough to entertain.)Written in My Own Heart’s Bloodis the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.” This book ranks about the highest I've douwnloaded. Not just the story - but the narrator makes it SUCH a joy to listen to!

Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say. I started listening to this series four years ago and listened to them all in sequence (along with the Lord John Grey books--and a lot other books in between). I just recently finished "Echo," so I guess I timed it right. I can't imagine how frustrating it's been for fans of the series who read "Echo" when it came out to have had all those cliffhangers hanging all this time. You've probably re-read the book in anticipation of the new one; it's certainly a good idea to do so. 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.

Diana Gabaldon

Do we really need another lesson in human disease, anatomy & physiology ? Haven’t I seen Claire stitch up Jamie before ? Ok so this time she’s severing a full digit & trying to leave him w/ a working hand. I don’t think my poor fragile heart can take any more abuse than this. How many more lives does Jamie have left ? Have mercy. Lord John Grey’s stepson William, who is of course Jamie’s secret illegitimate son, is featured extensively for the first time, and he’s a very appealing character. He’s young and raw, but he has the strong sense of honor that both Jamie and John share, and a strong desire to acquit himself well in the British military as the conflict in America deepens. He’s attracted to Rachel Hunter, a young Quaker whom he encounters when injured. He reminded me of a younger (English) Jamie crossed with a younger (straight) John, and that’s a good thing. I felt more unhappy about the Brianna/Roger storyline to be honest – when I first finished the book I’d forgotten all about it and suddenly realised there’s this massive cliffhanger. I don’t want Roger and Brianna to be apart from each other!!

I agree with you – the “development” was light on detail and emotion. Knowing that the, er, belief causing the development was untrue, I could have happily enjoyed many angsty moments etc.It’s not really a spoiler because he’s long been a widower. He was married to the sister of Geneva (I forget the sister’s name – Isabel, maybe?); Geneva was the spoiled young woman who basically forced Jamie to sleep with her when he was a groom (after he was released from prison after Culloden). Because Geneva died in childbirth, the child (supposedly the issue of Geneva’s elderly husband but really Jamie’s) was raised by Isobel, and then by Isobel and John when they married. Gone, which I personally think is a beautiful title. Gabaldon plans to write ten books in total for the Outlander book series. I'm going to read it again more slowly to see if my opinion changes, but first I need to let the dust settle on my disappointment. I realize that Jamie & Claire cannot live forever and Echo is obviously a transitional book, moving us toward their ending and more into the lives of others that come after.

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