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So， the first book of the new year is....
Jan. 3rd, 2010 02:24 pmAn Echo in the Bone, apparently. *SPOILERS! SPOILERS!*
If someone had tapped me on the shoulder last year and told me that the books were going to get more and more complicated (even past what A Breath of Snow and Ashes was, that monster) I wouldn't have believed them. My God. That's my only reaction that's adequate.
So, Jamie and Claire are still alive. Good. I was fond of them. So are Brianna and Roger and their children--who have survived a potentially fatal time-travel into the future (where they came from, in fact). Most of the main characters seem intact, and considering the Anyone (and I mean Anyone) Can Die style, it's nothing short of a miracle.
The American Revolution is not coming, it's squashing all of the characters under a giant, hairy foot. Jamie and Claire decide to go to Scotland to retrieve his printing press (seeing as his house has been burned down and winter's coming). Jamie and Claire are on the rebels' side, since Claire knows (being a time traveler from the future herself) that the Americans will win, while Jamie's illegitimate son (there's no way to explain without writing a full novel about it, but Claire's okay with him and his step-father knows) is unfortunately on the English's side, being the Earl of Ellesmere. Ian Murray (the Younger) is traveling with Jamie and Claire to Scotland, where the rest of his family is (he was kidnapped, then joined the Mohawk). Things go awry, as they are wont to do.
I was blown over multiple times, up to and including: Mrs. Bug's death (not so much by Arch's subsequent complete descent into insanity-driven revenge), the reappearance of Tom Christie (he was condemned to death the last time we saw him, for pete's sake!), a Mr. Randall-Isaacs--yeah, (illegitimate) son of Jack Randall, reappearance of Perseverance Wainwright (!), the time-travel into the future of Roger's 5 times grandfather (awkward meeting, to be sure, especially since said ancestor was the one who was responsible in most part for hanging Roger when he was in the eighteenth century), the death of Ian the Elder (WHAT?!), the marriage between Lord John and Claire (let's not go there now. Oh, Lord...), William finally seeing the light and realizing who his father was. In short, most of the book. Every fifty pages or so, the author would throw something completely out of the blue. In my opinion.
There is a rational, relatively spoiler free review on bookish:community.livejournal.com/bookish/2108446.html
If someone had tapped me on the shoulder last year and told me that the books were going to get more and more complicated (even past what A Breath of Snow and Ashes was, that monster) I wouldn't have believed them. My God. That's my only reaction that's adequate.
So, Jamie and Claire are still alive. Good. I was fond of them. So are Brianna and Roger and their children--who have survived a potentially fatal time-travel into the future (where they came from, in fact). Most of the main characters seem intact, and considering the Anyone (and I mean Anyone) Can Die style, it's nothing short of a miracle.
The American Revolution is not coming, it's squashing all of the characters under a giant, hairy foot. Jamie and Claire decide to go to Scotland to retrieve his printing press (seeing as his house has been burned down and winter's coming). Jamie and Claire are on the rebels' side, since Claire knows (being a time traveler from the future herself) that the Americans will win, while Jamie's illegitimate son (there's no way to explain without writing a full novel about it, but Claire's okay with him and his step-father knows) is unfortunately on the English's side, being the Earl of Ellesmere. Ian Murray (the Younger) is traveling with Jamie and Claire to Scotland, where the rest of his family is (he was kidnapped, then joined the Mohawk). Things go awry, as they are wont to do.
I was blown over multiple times, up to and including: Mrs. Bug's death (not so much by Arch's subsequent complete descent into insanity-driven revenge), the reappearance of Tom Christie (he was condemned to death the last time we saw him, for pete's sake!), a Mr. Randall-Isaacs--yeah, (illegitimate) son of Jack Randall, reappearance of Perseverance Wainwright (!), the time-travel into the future of Roger's 5 times grandfather (awkward meeting, to be sure, especially since said ancestor was the one who was responsible in most part for hanging Roger when he was in the eighteenth century), the death of Ian the Elder (WHAT?!), the marriage between Lord John and Claire (let's not go there now. Oh, Lord...), William finally seeing the light and realizing who his father was. In short, most of the book. Every fifty pages or so, the author would throw something completely out of the blue. In my opinion.
There is a rational, relatively spoiler free review on bookish:community.livejournal.com/bookish/2108446.html
