Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.īrianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be. Gabaldon makes really problematic choices, particularly from a 2021 lens (distinct possibility you are reading this in 2022 - hope it's better in the future).The author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale.

Each time the handling of rape, trauma, and its aftermath becomes less nuanced and borders on trauma porn. Finally, in the last book the same thing happens to Claire.

Then in book four, Brianna is brutally raped. I can't think of a single major male character experiencing it and her handling of it was really well done. In the beginning, Gabaldon's work was subversive in her depiction of male rape. I am talking graphic depictions of rape that feel so deeply unnecessary at this point. I'm not talking like someone's hand on the butt or breast. For example, I am not exaggerating when I say that every single significant main character in this story experienced sexual assault. About book 6 though, I started to get frustrated with some of the tropes that Gabaldon continues to use in her writing that only continue to age really badly.

I started these books about 8 years ago and I truly enjoyed most of the outings in the series. Go Tell the Bee's That I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon, the ninth (and penultimate?) entry in the much loved Outlander series is ruining my reading life.

Go tell the bees that im gone