But (surprise!) Wyn is there too, and he and Harriet have to share a (very romantic) room and a bed. She’s ready for a vacation at her happy place-the Maine cottage she and her friends visit every summer. So they keep it a secret from their friends and families-in fact, Harriet barely even admits it to herself, focusing instead on her grueling hours as a surgical resident. They’ve been part of the same boisterous friend group since college, and they know that their breakup will devastate the others and make things more than a little awkward. Wyn Connor and Harriet Kilpatrick were the perfect couple-until Wyn dumped Harriet for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand.
Lots of buzz after a seven-year hiatus, but even die-hard Outlander fans might need more action.Įxes pretend they’re still together for the sake of their friends on their annual summer vacation. The last third is more plot-driven and action-packed, but the cliffhanger ending might leave readers feeling as if the book is just filler for the promised 10th installment. Now that they are grandparents, their love story is less epic and more tender, exploring the process of aging, the joys of family, and the longing for community and home. But Claire and Jamie have always been the major draw for readers. The Outlander series has always been concerned with themes of time and place, and this novel contains intricate details and descriptions of daily life in Colonial America, clearly the result of countless hours of research.
The text features not one but two family trees (the one in the back is updated to include the events of the book), and readers will need both to keep track of all the characters and relationships.
Gabaldon reintroduces characters, summarizes past events and tragedies, and introduces new characters. It’s clear that Jamie and the others expect the troubles the family faced in the future will follow them to the past unfortunately, after their return, the book pauses for several hundred pages of exposition. In a previous book, Brianna’s family time-traveled to 20th-century America and planned to stay there permanently. This novel opens with the mysterious return to Fraser’s Ridge of their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children. It’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie Fraser have found each other across time and space and are living peacefully in the American Colony of North Carolina.
The ninth book in Gabaldon’s Outlander series finds the Fraser family reunited in the midst of the American Revolution.
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