Soooooo, I cheated and I read this Graphic Novel. You can tell that Gabaldon must really pack a lot into her books, because this 200 pager jumped from one event to the next and trying to add back story I really felt like I was missing a lot of the story and was reading some sort of cliffnote version, which basically I was; and was shocked to read in the author's note that this Graphic novel really only covered one-third of her 1st novel! Yikes! Now do I really want to read Outlander? Maybe... I am a bit annoyed with the female main character Claire. Yes, she is from the 1940s, and has time traveled back to 1700's Scotland, so she is a "liberated" woman in a misogynistic society; but some of her "brassy and fiery" antics just come across as "whiny and annoying". It was very reminiscent of the movie "Romancing the Stone" where the heroine screams at the Michael Douglas character for hacking the heels off of her very expensive and very high heeled shoes with a machete thus making them flats so she can walk through the jungle. There were times when yes, it was nice for Claire to point out how unfairly she's being treated, and at other times I just wish she would stop whining. I also didn't like that the main character Jamie had to "punish" Claire by whipping her; Historically accurate for the time? most likely yes; But no matter how "hard" it was for Jamie to punish her and how "sorry" he was; I am that bitter enough of a person to not want to forgive him (even if he was doing it to save her life).
But the male lead Jamie is super sweet and romantic. I now see why so many female readers speak fondly when they talk about him and the series. So maybe, just maybe, I could forgive this one transgression and try to read the actual book.
If anything if could really boost our page average in the competition! That and if Laura W. reads Ulysses :)
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