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The Fiery Cross (Outlander) |  | Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Rating:  644 reviews
Sales Rank: 1985
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 1456
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 2
ISBN: 0440221668
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780440221661
ASIN: 0440221668
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. Historical fiction fans who have waited four long years since the publication of Drums of Autumn will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of The Fiery Cross. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! --Alison Trinkle
Product Description
Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon’s new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her.
In the ten years since her extraordinary debut novel, Outlander, was published, beloved author Diana Gabaldon has entertained scores of readers with her heart-stirring stories and remarkable characters. The four volumes of her bestselling saga, featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century, time-travelling wife, Claire Randall, boasts nearly 5 million copies in the U.S.
The story of Outlander begins just after the Second World War, when a British field nurse named Claire Randall walks through a cleft stone in the Scottish highlands and is transported back some two hundred years to 1743.
Here, now, is The Fiery Cross, the eagerly awaited fifth volume in this remarkable, award-winning series of historical novels. The year is 1771, and war is approaching. Jamie Fraser’s wife has told him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveller’s certain knowledge. To break his oath to the Crown will brand him a traitor; to keep it is certain doom. Jamie Fraser stands in the shadow of the fiery cross—a standard that leads nowhere but to the bloody brink of war.
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 the fiery cross March 7, 2010
mike C. Wilson
i thought the fc was a great book in the series. it was nice to have jamie and claire settle down pretty much in one spot. their lives were more routine but still had excitement. after reading the other books i found it refreshing that things slowed down a bit. after all how much could jamie and claire take. i think they needed a little nap.
Awesome Series!!!! February 11, 2010
V. Dudley (Glenwood Springs, CO)
I cannot put these books down; my family is suffering! I don't want to cook or clean, don't want to watch movies with the family, just read these books! Diana Gabaldon is an amazing writer! The adventures go on and on, and the characters are incredible! These books are great for men and women, so much adventure and romance! I'm so sad to be near the end of the series. Hope she is working full force on the next one!!
 Boring with a capital B February 7, 2010
A. K. Meyer (New York)
Just like everyone else, I loved the first few books in this series. However, I had the worst time getting throught this book, as absolutely nothing happened. I like to read a book, and listen to an audiobook on my ipod. It should have been a clue that this book read as an audio book was the only one in the series that was abridged. So I dumped the audiobook to read the real book, and what a snooze fest. I think I am going to take someones advice and just read the last few hundred pages. She could have easily condensed this book to be about 200 pages, instead of the 1400 that just described every little detail, down to Jemmy's dirty diapers.
The Fiery Cross book February 6, 2010
ferret lady (Colorado)
The book was in almost perfect condition. Really pleased when recieved it in the mail!
 A dud. Plain and simple. February 4, 2010
Christy
I read the first four novels of this series years ago. I tried to read The Fiery Cross right when it came out, but it didn't hold my interest long enough and I put it down and forgot all about it. Now with the new novel released, I want to finish what I started so I dug this book out and started over.
This book has so much wrong with it I don't even know where to begin. I suppose I'll narrow it down to the most glaringly obvious things that made it so difficult to trudge through.
1. No plot. This book goes nowhere. In reality, this book isn't even necessary. You could skip right over it and not miss anything. A bunch of randomly drawn vignettes compiled into one huge book. There is no cohesion, no story, no I-have-to-read-just-one-more-chapter feelings to be had. There are maybe 200 (maybe) pages of this novel that advance anything along. The other 700+ pages are simply there.
2. Tedium. Over and over again with the diapers. I would be interested to find out how many times dirty diapers were mentioned or changing a diaper was a major part of a scene. What's the point? Ms. Gabaldon forgets that fiction is not real life. We do not read fiction to get a glimpse of real, day to day drudgery. We read fiction to hear a story that is not like real life, and this story (if you can call it that) is constantly bombarded by dirty diapers, drool, and other mundane things.
Another sort of related dead horse throughout this novel is the question: is Jemmy Roger's or Stephen's? We KNOW they don't know. But why is it that 8 times out of 10, whenever the narration slips over to Roger, that's what he brings up. And if this is so uncertain, why does the narrator refer to Jemmy as Roger's "offspring" at times instead of his "possible offspring." I bet not more than 10-15 pages goes by without being reminded of this paternity issue.
3. Loose ends. Too many loose ends that are never tied up. Gabaldon goes from one thing to another to another, and I believe forgets to finish what she started. For instance, Claire is going to monitor whether or not Lizzie is getting another malaria attack, but that just gets dropped. We never find out if she is or isn't getting malaria again. Jemmy swallows a gem stone but we never know what happens to it...of course we assume it ends up in one of those ubiquitous diapers. I'm surprised that she missed an opportunity to tell about another diaper changing! And why did the opal explode in Jem's hands later in the book and feel "hot" to him...given that he swallowed one earlier in the book with nary an ill effect? Makes no sense. Just a few examples of a book rampant with unresolved, messy details.
4. What I came to love about Jamie and Claire seemed to come across only in sex scenes this time around. I have always loved the intimate scenes between Jamie and Claire until this book. This book was greatly lacking in the witty banter and interesting dynamic between Jamie and Claire. This book seeemed to force the sex scenes and they seemed gratuitous and unrealistic. It seemed as though the sex scenes were thrown in to let the reader know that Jamie and Claire are still hot for one another. Who cares at this point?
5. Sorry, but I just can't get into Roger and Bree. I really want to, but I find both of them to be uncompelling characters. I want to rush their parts to get to other stuff. I want them to go back through the stones. I just want them out of the story.
6. Way, way, way too many characters. One never knows if a name dropped randomly on a page is going to be important or not. I got to where my eyes glazed over and I didn't even attempt to juggle the cast of characters. I figured if they are important, I'll know who they are at some point. A book shouldn't be this way, and certainly not one of *these* books.
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