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Novela fantástica, portada con la serie adaptada genial, ingles intermedio o superior, de bolsillo.

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 21 de abril de 2016

Mi novela favorita, outlander, ahora quiero leerlo en inglés tal como fue concebida así que según salen con la portada de la serie de starz me lo compro en esta versión de bolsillo, lo forro con plástico y así se conserva mejor. Este es la segunda novela de 8 que lleva por ahora y a cada cual mejor. Viajes en el tiempo, Escocia hace 200 años, tramas que han comparado con juego de tronos o pilares de la tierra o clan del oso cavernario pero para mujeres. Me encanta!! Recomiendo sin duda estos libros, la serie y esta versión en inglés. Para nivel intermedio superior. Si ya lo has leído en español te puede venir bien leerlo también y ver cómo hablan originalmente.

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Kalyne Santos

Parece un libro de segunda mano

Revisado en España 🇪🇸 el 29 de octubre de 2020

Llegó dañado y manchado en várias partes. No estoy satisfecha.

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slow and long

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 27 de marzo de 2023

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Outlander might be my favorite book of all time and following it with this book was painful. It was still intriguing but it was so slow and so long that it took me 4x longer to read this than it takes for any other book. A disappointment after a book as great as outlander.

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Donna

Content is good, physical book is not

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 2 de marzo de 2023

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The book is good....the text, I mean. Love this book series but.... The physical book is cheap and the ink rubs off onto your hands. Some pages the text is even smudged or blurred and hard to read.

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Beatrice

yawn (also: offensive)

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 5 de marzo de 2013

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This book was that oddest of things: a boring page-turner. The pace was sort of hypnotic, in that it kept me going, but I didn't really care what happened to anyone. Certainly not the heroine, who has evolved from being a colorless cypher in the first book to being a colorless cypher who is an irritatingly obvious placeholder for the author/reader. If I wanted to believe that a hot Scotsman was obsessed with me, I would google-image Gerard Butler and use the power of my brain; when I read a book, I tend to be in search of, y'know, characters. And our heroine is nothing of the kind.

Almost a thousand pages of first-person narrative and all we learn about our narrator is: a) she gives off a major whiff of self-righteousness and self-satisfaction; b) every man she meets lusts after her; and c) the hero periodically needs to monologue for pages about how much he loves and desires and worships her, to which she tends to respond complacently with a bland, "I love you too," or some such. On no occasion, even when she has just almost gotten him killed, does she consider herself less than deserving of this worship, or even seem particularly grateful for it: she unthinkingly accepts it as the way things should be. We also never get any evidence of this amazingness our seven-foot-tall-shoulders-wider-than-a-longbow-blindingly-handsome Scotsman sees in her. She just deserves his adoration! You'll have to take Gabaldon's word for it.

And it is still true in this book, as in its prequel, that if you meet a gay man you know he is all kinds of evil. The one flash of developed personality we see in our heroine is when she starts talking about "perverts". Thanks, Diana, for providing your readers with the perfect way to insert ourselves into a kilt-related fantasy, as long as we don't mind being a smug homophobe in said fantasy. Uh... I mind.

(And yet, believe it or not, I have already started the third book. Partially it's because I own it and the Because It Is There principle is strong with me, but partially because, well, sometimes I will eat an entire bag of Starbursts, and this is sort of the same idea.)

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Disappointed. Cure for insomnia

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 13 de octubre de 2014

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I like the characters but the tedious descriptions of everything and the meandering in overly descriptive side stories that have nothing to do with the main plot caused me to loose interest in what happens to Jamie and Claire. Book is too long and slow moving. The first book in the series was more interesting. Although the author goes to great lengths to describe every detail of Claire's surroundings, she never gives us any description of how Claire is reacting to the physical changes of living in the 1700s. For example it would be nice to know how she feels about the inability to bathe daily, the comfort and difference in the style and texturs of the clothing of the period as well as her ability to adapt to the different foods served. I also find it odd that as a nurse in the 1940s, Claire would have been at least somewhat aware of the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy yet she drinks quite often while pregnant in 1740s. I also find some events in the story hard to believe and I am not referring to the time travel aspect. Good story, good characterization just too cumbersome. I read voraciously and always finish a book no matter how boring or difficult but have found these books really hard to finish. I started reading the series because a friend recommended the television series to me. I have not watched the series because I wanted to read the books first. I am not sure at this point whether I am interested enough to watch the television version. I am sort of disappointed that the story is not more interesting. Other reviews said this book would keep you up all night. I could barely stay awake trying to read it!

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Berly

Outlander Series....I don't know if I can go on despite wanting to know the end

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 22 de enero de 2015

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I decided to read this book series because of the upcoming TV series on Starz. First I will say that I like the overall style and prose of Diana Gabaldon and I enjoy the narrator of the audiobook. I tend to like epic novels with a lot of detail about the characters & their surroundings. I liked the first book in the series, however the second book is a different story. I kept finding myself saying "GET ON WITH IT" (out loud I may add). I felt like the story just kept dragging on & on with a lot of superfluous storylines & descriptions that really didn't seem all that necessary to the overall storyline. I also found myself getting irritated with Claire & Jamie's love story/relationship. If I have to read "oh Jamie" one more time! I don't know if it was just me getting moody because the storyline was taking forever or if their love story just started to get sappy by the 2nd book. Either way, I kept finding myself wanting Claire to jump back through the stones and the book to say THE END. I really think this book could have been wrapped up in about 500 pages & the last 200 or so could have been dedicated to the next book in the series so I can get on with the story. So with that being said I don't know if I can read an additional 6 books. I hope the TV series stays on long enough so I can see how this story ends.

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Country Lady

Disappointed in the order the story is told

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 12 de julio de 2014

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This is the second book in the Outlander series and I was disappointed after reading the first five chapters because I knew all the major points in the story. Gabaldon begins this book by jumping 22 years after the first book ends with Claire, who has returned to her own time, telling her daughter and the young historian, Roger the story of her journey to the 18th century. By doing this, the author tells the reader when, where and why Claire returns to her own time to have her daughter and raise her as Frank's child. Most of the rest of the book gives the details of how this happens. Unfortunately knowing what happened spoiled the rest of the book for me. I skimmed most of it and even skipped some chapters. The last three chapters pick up where the first five stop and set up the story for the next book.

I would suggest skipping the first five chapters (section one) and begin reading at chapter six which continues the story where book one ends. Read until the last section, then go back and read section one before reading the last three chapters. I do not understand why this book was written in the order that is was other than the author wanted to introduce two new characters, which she could have done by ending the book with the first five and last three chapters.

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Waasookwe

Found it Boring

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 22 de enero de 2015

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I loved OUTLANDER, but i found this 'Dragonfly in Amber" book BORING!! With all the detailed French Court and English Court, none of this historical detail appeals to me. When I first read 'Outlander', I had my doubts, but my doubts disappeared when Claire stepped through some ring of rocks and was transported back to the 1700's - now THAT was amazingly interesting and kept me reading. But 'Dragonfly in Amber' started out in more modern 1968 and we find Claire is an old woman without Jamie and also has a young 20 year old daughter and then Claire finds Jamie's grave...THAT really depressed me!!! After that, I have not enjoyed this book. I swept through 'Outlander'. And I understand in "Dragonfly in Amber" - Claire is relaying to her daughter and some college professor all she experienced in the 1700's Scotland but finding Jamie's grave was not a 'grabber' for me....idk...it choked my interest and 'Dragonfly in Amber' might be the last I read of this series, knowing Jamie's dead and Claire didn't stay with him, why would there have to be 7 more books? - 'trudging through' this 'Dragonfly..." book for several months now is not sparking my interest in what happens next to Jamie & Claire, because we know he's dead. That was told at the beginning of 'Dragonfly' - which btw, what the heck does 'Dragonfly in Amber' mean??

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Erika Kottenmeier

Not as good as the first book

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 8 de noviembre de 2014

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I thought the first Outlander book was really very good: I might have given it 5 stars. This was a disappointing followup. It was ponderously slow, pacing was uneven, and there were large chunks of the book that in my humble opinion should have been edited out (as they were unnecessary to the story, character development, etc.). The main characters' personalities were less appealing this time around, and they were often frustratingly unkind to one another for no apparent reason. Since the action in the novel revolves entirely around Claire's and Jamie's characters they have to be appealing and you have to want to read about them, but often they were by turns boring, mean, or self-indulgent: most likely because after they settled into marriage it wasn't clear how they should behave with one another. There were several strong plot lines in the book and the main characters had strong moments, certainly: if the author had cut out a few plot lines, kept the characters' personalities more consistent with the first book, and eliminated some of the superfluous material it would have been much tighter and a more enjoyable read.

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fix32

Frustrating

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 12 de octubre de 2014

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Spoilers in this review. I really struggled with this book as there was no suspense and this was due to a number of reasons. Much of the book was meant to be about Claire and Jamie trying to prevent the battle of Culloden, but as the book started in the future you knew that the battle happened and that ultimately they would fail in their quest, ergo no suspense. You know that Claire got pregnant in the end and that she was Jaime's child, so again you know Jaime lives at least until close to the end, ergo no suspense. You know that there has to be a child from either John or Alex Randall, because if there hadn't been a child, ie resulting in no Frank, then Claire wouldn't have been in Scotland with Frank investigating the Jacobite rebellion and there would be no story, ergo no suspense. Then again at the end they try to stop Gellis going back so she wouldn't have been burned but it had to happen or here would be no Roger.....and perhaps as he rightly says would he just evaporate? So all the 'suspense' was based on things that you knew had to happen. Apart from the complete lack of suspense, I enjoyed the historical aspects and you just have to enjoy it as a romance.

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Freddie Stair

Did anyone proof read this in English before publication?

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 3 de abril de 2022

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The American language in this book really spoilt this story for me and has put me off from continuing with the series.

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