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Title: Tedious, with too much description, dialogue, and detail
Review: This book is a dissappointment after reading Gabaldon's first four. What I liked about her prievious books was the adventure and fast-paced interesting story line. This book didn't have that, at over 1400 tedious pages would have been better if edited to say, 700 pages.Much of the book is devoted to description, and endless threads of babies, nursing, and domestic life. A little description to support the story is needed, but there is so much in this book that it really couldn't hold my interest.Also, I thought many threads weren't plausable. The whole of the Jemmy thread could have been edited out. The Jamie snake-bite saved by penicillin that Claire made wasn't believable. The book builds to a climax and final confrontation with evil ship captain Stephen Bonnett. But that doesn't quite work and the baby Jemmy is definitely in the way and brought this thread down.I really didn't like this book and would not recommend it to anyone.
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