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Voyager | 
 enlarge | Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 6751
Media: Paperback
Pages: 1072
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 2.3
ISBN: 0099428512
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099428510
ASIN: 0099428512
Publication Date: August 3, 1995
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 The beginning of the end November 30, 2008
Dr Jones (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You know, I once courted a comely, fair-haired maiden named Outlander. She was fun to be with, a little verbose at times and prone to doing silly things if she wasn't carefully managed, but overall we had a good relationship. Now here we are a few years down the line, and she's gained fifty pounds, pushed out several increasingly ugly and ill-tempered children, and spends her days rambling endlessly about things I have no interest in. And so I sit now in a corner, between bouts of drinking and quiet sobbing, wondering where it all went wrong.
Well, I can tell you exactly where it all went wrong - here, in Voyager.
Problems begin almost immediately with the realization that Jamie hadn't died at the climactic Battle of Culloden, but had in fact spent twenty-odd years as a prisoner and a fugitive before eventually piecing the shattered fragments of his life back together and moving on. But of course, such relative peace and prosperity can't last long, and in steps Claire, ready to tear everything to shreds once more. Soon the dynamic duo are back together, and busy fending off pirates, crocodiles, zombies, vengeful enemies from the past, and witch-doctors while they journey half way around the world to pre-Revolutionary America to rescue Jamie's captive relative.
I only wish I was making this stuff up.
Now, I have nothing particularly against continuing storylines using familiar characters, or even reuniting long-lost friends and enemies unexpectedly, but an author can at least make some attempt to keep such things plausible. I suspect Diana Gabaldon doesn't feel this way however, as Voyager reads more like a brainstorming session than a properly structured book. There's just no logic to it.
Characters mysteriously disappear early on, only to pop up conveniently again whenever it's appropriate to drive the plot forward, and old enemies are resurrected using the flimsiest of excuses, only to be mown down like so much standing corn in a few lame and confusing 'action' sequences.
Voyager as a whole just feels unnecessary and superfluous, like making a sequel to Titanic where we find out Jack Dawson didn't actually die. Worse, it ruins Dragonfly in Amber's wrenchingly emotional climax - surely the high water mark of the Outlander series. While I've never been a great champion of Gabaldon's strengths as a writer, I reluctantly concede that she can at least invest her characters and situations with a raw intensity and emotion that makes them truly believable. But it's entirely lacking here - the reunion between Claire and Jamie, which should have spelled the dramatic high point of the story, plays out completely flat. Claire might as well have returned from a trip to the local market to pick up some milk, such was the lack of credibility in this scene.
If someone was to ask me to sum up the Outlander series in one sentence, I'd probably tell them to get lost, but if they pressed me on the matter, I guess I'd call it a series of missed opportunities. It had the potential to be truly special, but a combination of bad storyline decisions, unimaginative and extremely verbose writing meant that it never really lived up to its early promise.
For me, Voyager is the start of that decline.
 Fantastic Series of Stories May 31, 2008
wicket2005 (England)
Diana Gabaldon writes a terrific time travelling story about Claire (from modern times) and Jamie (from an earlier times) and their adventures together.
This is the third book in the series and I have read all the books. I am currently eagerly awaiting the next book which Diana keeps promising will be soon.
Though Claire has time travelled to the past, that is where the majority of the story is based so please don't get the impression they are both jumping through time. Claire and Jamie experience the historial events that are happening at that time.
I can thoroughly recommend this series of books to you.
Where the Jamie & Claire series goes off the rails May 26, 2008
Roman Clodia (London)
I really enjoyed Crosstitch and loved Dragonfly in Amber, but this third outing for J&C is disappointing overall. The first third is good but once J&C are reunited, the plot goes mad and they're rushing around being chased by crocodiles and assorted villains... I have to confess that while I've read the remaining three novels in the series, I don't think they're a patch on the first two, and this is the pivotal book where the rot sets in. I know many die-hard J&C fans will disagree (which is fine) but for anyone contemplating the series, I would heartily recommend the first two books, and you need to read at least the start of this one after the wrneching ending to Amber, but after that I would do what I believe Gabaldon should have done - let the series rest at a high-point and move on to the Lord John books instead where Gabaldon's imagaination seems revitalised.
Great December 15, 2007
I. Lander
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was fortunate when I first started reading Diana Gabaldon's intriguing series; fortunate, I say, because the first three books were already available, so I didn't suffer quite so terribly from Claire and Jamie withdrawal. From the moment I picked up "Outlander" I knew that I was reading what perhaps in time will (and should) become the standard for romance, although it is erroneous to categorize Gabaldon's works as simply being "romance". The ongoing saga of the Frasers is enjoyable regardless of what genre you prefer. Diana is just that good. But I digress...
In the third installment of the series, Doctor Claire Randall is vacationing in 1968 Scotland when she discovers that her husband, Jamie Fraser, who she thought was killed during the battle of Culloden, has in fact survived and is alive and well...in 1765. With the aid of their daughter, Brianna, and young historian Roger Wakefield, Claire arranges for the most difficult--and the most rewarding--undertaking of her life: reuniting with Jamie after twenty years of separation.
Full of surprising twists as well as the emotional depth and historical accuracy one has come to expect from Diana Gabaldon, "Voyager" is a novel that stands on its own, which is how a good novel is written, whether or not it is part of a series!!! And if you missed Tino Georgiou's--The Fates--I strongly recommend reading it.
I couldn't put it down! August 23, 2007
Di Halliwell (Merseyside, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the best of her novels so far. I read it cover to cover really quickly and couldn't put it down. My husband was amazed as he said he's never seen me so engrossed in a book before as I apparently was with this one. I really enjoyed Cross Stitch and Dragonfly in Amber but this was hard to put down. I can't wait to go out and buy the next installment. Sorry hubbie if our love life is suffering but I just can't resist!!!
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