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This time-traveling romantic adventure will please fans who have been waiting for the further adventures of Dr. Claire Beauchamp Randall, a 20th-century American who goes to Scotland in search of her 18th-century husband, virile Scot Jamie Fraser, whom she met and married in Outlander ( LJ 7/91). Book 2 of a planned trilogy takes readers along on Randall's quest, as she hopes to find a state or time (like that of the title's dragonfly suspended in a piece of amber) where Fraser still exists. This imaginative novel suffers somewhat from the author's overuse of personification ("spectacles gleaming with concern and curiosity") and her confusing switches between the two first-person narrations, which sometimes cloud an otherwise intriguing adventure. But Outlander 's readers will still devour this hefty volume without complaint.
-Marlene Lee, Drain Branch Lib., Ore.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
-Marlene Lee, Drain Branch Lib., Ore.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
An engaging time-travel romance, the second of a trilogy (after Outlander, 1991), that animates the people and politics of a pivotal period in history--while turning up the heat between an appealing modern heroine and a magnetic romantic hero. It's now 1968, and Claire Beauchamp Randall has returned to Inverness, Scotland, with her daughter, Brianna. This is Claire's first visit back since she and husband Frank visited 22 years before--when she walked through a Druid stone circle into the middle of the 18th century. Now, Frank is dead, and Claire hopes to learn what happened to the second great love of her life--gallant Jamie Fraser, laird of Lallybroch whom she married during her journey into the past. She's also looking for a way to tell Brianna who her real father is. Framed by these dilemmas, the bulk of the story consists of the second installment of Claire and Jamie's adventures. Escaping the English death sentence passed against Jamie, they flee to prerevolutionary Paris, where they secretly work at foiling Bonnie Prince Charlie's efforts to regain the Scottish throne. But this espionage is only the beginning...A most entertaining mix of history and fantasy whose author, like its heroine, exhibits a winning combination of vivid imagination and good common sense. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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MY MOST FAVORITE STORIES EVER!!!!!!!!,
By Michelle Moore (Jonestown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dragonfly in Amber (Mass Market Paperback)
If you are purchasing this book first, pick up Outlander too, so that you can start the story at the beginning! Claire and Jamie are like family to me, I've re- re- re- read the now 5 books so many times they are falling apart. I still laugh and cry at times! This story and the characters are so compelling you want them to go on forever. I am anxiously awaiting the last (sigh) book, ( I finished The Fiery Cross in record time!). If you love good stories and great characters, you will absolutely love this series. It is the best story I've ever read
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Outlander,
By Melissa Knight (Stockton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dragonfly in Amber (Audio Cassette)
This series of, now, five books will become like family to you. You will fall in love with the characters and not want to lose them. Diana Gabaldon has done her research. She has taken historical figures and magically woven them into the fabric of the lives of her fictional characters. Prepare yourself to open your heart and life to the most amazing of story tellers. I don't think anything will be able to prepare you for the attachment, the bond you will feel toward these characters. Awesome!
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Second book to the series doesnt dissapoint.,
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Dragonfly in Amber is a great second book to a wonderful series. I look forward to continuing the story in book 3.
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