An Echo in the Bone: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780385342452
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Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary tale of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.
Jamie Fraser, ex- Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American uprising: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.
Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the essential fee may be. That fee won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her spouse, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a gap of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ tale comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s like for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family tree in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
With stunning cameos of past characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.
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Sixteen fifty for a book you can neither share nor donate to your local library when you are done with it? My understanding is it is the authors complaining about digital being too cheap. Boo on you!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have a kindle. I will not pay $16.50 for this book on kindle. I will as a replacement for pay $18.00 to buy at store and share it with my four friends who also have kindle. Figure it out. Five of us will read this book building what was made on it less than $4.00 per person, but we would have all bought it on kindle for $9.99. Figure the profit loss because we cannot share our kindles! The fee includes packaging and you don’t get the packaging with the kindle so fee should be less!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have just ongoing reading Ms. Gabaldon’s latest, and will surely update and improve her star rating after I wade my way through her latest magnum opus, BUT I can say this straight away – I do not appreciate Lord John and his “son” the target of her opening chapter. Claire is the protagonist of this series, and it should be SHE who the novel starts with on page one, and no one else. Ms. Gabaldon has done this before and IMHO it doesn’t work. We have waited and waited to read about Claire and Jamie, and you start with Lord John’s “son”?
UPDATE (10/5/09) I did end this novel to the very last word and have my final comments and update to the star-rating, which I would place at about 2-1/2. Let’s say 3 in Amazon’s system. Too terrible Amazon’s editing system won’t let me change my original rating.
First the excellent. Diana Gabaldon is probably the best pure writer of past fiction I have ever read. She may even be the best writer I have ever read, and since my favorite genre is past fiction this is a very pleased situation for me. I very much loved the book and am not sorry I read it, but …
All the outstanding writing technique in the world can not fix the tragedy of her novel’s structure.
Not only does the novel NOT start with the protagonist, who Ms. Gabaldon herself clearly identifies with first person pronouns in Chapter two, she does NOT end the novel with the protagonist either. In fact, she doesn’t bother to end the novel at all. Her tale has a beginning and a middle, but no end. Persons who have read all of her Outlander series know that this criticism is not unique for An Echo in the Bone. If you’re wondering why there isn’t a movie for the first book, one really excellent reason is that it takes the first TWO books to get an ending to her tale.
There is more than one chapter in AEITB that could be omitted WITH NO IMPACT TO THE STORY.
The pacing becomes frantic in the last fifty or so pages, nearly as if Ms. Gabaldon was striving to meet a deadline.
Her sole antagonist (Arch Bug) is unbelievable.
I could go on, but suffice it to say, AEITB is her worst of the Outlander series.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book was a gift for a friend so I have not read it but she has read every book in the series and likes them.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Diana Gabaldon continues her outstanding and creative writing ability in this novel. She does not disappoint!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5