An Echo in the Bone: A Novel Mass Market Author: Visit Amazon's Diana Gabaldon Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0440245680 | Format: PDF
An Echo in the Bone: A Novel Mass Market Description
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“All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . . . adventure, history, romance, fantasy.”—
The Arizona Republic
About the Author
Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels—Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross,and A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize)—as well as one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion; the Outlander graphic novel, The Exile; and the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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- Series: Outlander
- Mass Market Paperback: 1200 pages
- Publisher: Dell; Reissue edition (May 24, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440245680
- ISBN-13: 978-0440245681
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I never in a million years thought I'd give DG less than five stars. She's one of three authors on my release-date auto-buy, and I've been eagerly awaiting this book for years. But having spent the last couple of weeks reading it, I really don't even know what to say (I know I should take that back - I ALWAYS have something to say and I'm about to say it).
Problem one: It took me several weeks to read. I'm a compulsive reader. I can't sleep with a story unfinished, and yet Echo never grabbed me. I went several days without evening picking it up because I didn't feel like it. I never felt emotionally engaged. A good lot of the time, I just didn't care what was happening. And even worse, I felt bored by the story.
Problem two: The book is so physically big that it hurt to read. And I mean that literally. I had shoulder and elbow pain from holding it up. It really, really needed to be cut. There was a point where I wished DG had cut out the last 150 pages and replaced them with "Six months later." There was just too much of mundane life and while beautifully written, it had no presence, no force, no suspense. The book overall needed more focus on story and less on how to fix a collapsed lung using nothing but tar and a bird feather. Many of the elements got lots of story didn't end up leading anywhere (such as Ian & the two orphan girls. I expected them to show up again.)
Problem three: Timing. The book is really three different stories. Jamie & Claire in 1777 America (mostly), William (Wee Willie) Ramsome in about the same time period, and Bree & Roger in 1980's Scotland. But the timelines didn't happen evenly and so I was often rather confused. For example: William is leaving to go find Dr. Hunter in the rebel camp.
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