Product Description
With her now-classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters — Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful follow-up to Outlander....

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland’s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his....

Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire’s spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ... in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ... and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 255 reviews)

A Good Second Chapter of the Outlander Seires

"Dragonfly in Amber" is good second chapter of the "Outlander" series. If you enjoyed "Outlander" you are sure to enjoy the continuation of Jamie and Claire's story. All of the characters from the first novel are back, with more romance and political intrigue than ever.

At nearly a thousand pages, this book is longer than "Outlander", but generally the pacing is good and the action comes fast, so you keep reading. I did feel like the third quarter of the book dragged a little bit, but all in all I really enjoyed the read.

I would not recommend that a reader new to the "Outlander" series start with this book, since there is very little flashback to the first book, and you really need the background of the first book to understand what is going on in "Dragonfly."
October 07, 2008

Keeps getting better

I'm utterly enthralled with the story of Jamie and Claire! Their story just keeps getting better and better with each book.

Although longer than Outlander, I didn't find Dragonfly boring, even the historical parts. I've never been a real big fan of the 18th Century but I find myself totally immersed in the time period thanks to Gabaldon's series. As I said in my last review, I love the characters she's created and have laughed, cried, sighed, and fumed throughout her books. I especially cried during this one, at the beginning and toward the end.

What I find especially fascinating is how she totally brings the past to life. I feel as if I KNOW such real life personages as King Louis the XV, Lord Lovat, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. After reading each book I Google some of the places mentioned in her books, from Inverness to Culloden. I've always LOVED history, and feel that she makes that time period extremely interesting by how she tells the story of the Jacobite uprising. Any lover of history should delve into these books. I admire the research that must have went into them to bring them to life.

I've started VOYAGER, and so far it is turning out ot be even BETTER than the first two.
September 30, 2008

This series is one of the best of all time

I keep having to replace various books in this series as people borrow and I never get them back. I reread this series about every 3 years. I always learn something new and it's always interesting. Excellent author.
September 28, 2008

My favorite in the series

I could write a million pages about how good the books in this series are. SERIOUSLY! Diana Gabaldon, the most masterful story teller of our generation, brings the sequel to "Outlander" to even higher standards than the first, and probably my favorite of the series (or maybe it is tied evenly with "Voyager"; I'll have to figure that out the next time I read the series through). The adventures and sorrows that take place in this book are so spectacular that you can't even breath during it, afraid that you'll miss something. The scene where Claire offers herself to the King of France in order to get Jamie released from prison is so saddening (yet a decision that I thought she made correctly) that I had to stop for a moment to take it all in (and she did this soon after miscarring her baby by Jamie, nearly dying from it). Then later after Jamie is released and he rejoins her, she is just so overwrought with sadness that she can't even look at him, her emotion of the baby just too great. I wept at that part, especially when she was able to pull through and embrace him. Then at the end, there is the "scene"...THE "SCENE" when Jamie forces her to cross back through the time portal, knowing that he and the battle of Culloden are both doomed. Jamies love for Claire is so great that he would rather lose her forever to a different time (and the new child she carries in her womb) then leave her unprotected and with an uncertain future after his death. Jamie and Claire are the "Romeo and Juliet" of our time, there is no doubt about that. I can't wait for the final two books in the Outlander series, said to be in the works (they better get here soon!) To conclude this review, every woman with a wanting for romatic literature, that is more well written than any other romance or historical fiction, you must read these books, over and over and over again.
September 08, 2008

Excellent

Excellent second book in the series of the Outlander. I am almost finished and ready to start reading Voyager. You should have at least two books of the series with you, so that you don't have to wait for a week or so for the next book. Oh aye, these are excellent books, to be sure!!
August 23, 2008

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