She tells of living with Jamie Fraser in France, their attempt to stop the uprising of Charles Stuart from ruining the tradition of clans in Scotland, and their efforts to survive and save their friends when the fighting breaks out. On an expedition with Roger and Brianna to a graveyard where she encounters two markers that surprise her, Claire stops wondering how to begin and starts telling her story to both of them. Claire also wants to find some way to tell Brianna about the significance of the stones at Craigh na Dun, and her experiences with the past.

With Frank gone and Brianna grown, Claire’s curiosity about acquaintances left behind in the 1740’s has finally pushed her to seek answers to questions she’s been afraid to ask for many years. There were some I couldn’t stand, some I wanted to live forever (even if they possessed only fictional lives), but I wanted to know everything about everyone, and this was the book that made me certain I would have to read the entire series.Ībout the book: Claire and her daughter, Brianna, journey to Scotland after Frank’s death and seek help with a research project of Claire’s from Roger Wakefield (the son of Frank’s friend the Reverend Wakefield from Outlander). Outlander was great, and intriguing enough that I immediately sought the second book of this series from the library, but it was Dragonfly in Amber that sparked my obsession with Gabaldon’s characters. Check out my previous post for my impressions of the first book here.

This review is for the second book in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, and while I’ll try to avoid giving any big spoilers and keep this post interesting to readers at any juncture of the Outlander series, I won’t recap the events of the first book.

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