-- I first picked up Outlander at my friend's house. I was visiting her in Las Vegas. She had a late-night work schedule, and I got up early, and she was still sleeping, and I decided to pick something off of her bookshelf and give it a go, and I ended up going home and buying it because I wanted to finish reading it.
Outlander is the first in a series, and the concept is it's set in the 40's right after World War II. Claire and her husband are visiting his ancestral area in Scotland, and she goes into an area not unlike Stonehenge. She enters a circle area like this and somehow starts feeling the magic of the area and gets transported back in time 200 years. Not very believable, I know, but it's very romantic. The concept is she's back 200 years, and she runs into none other than her husband's ancestor and kind of learns how his history had painted differently than it really was, not the nice guy that everyone thinks he was. She falls in with the Scottish clan and falls in love, and it's that whole story, and it leads to I think four more books in that series.
This book is just written well. It's enjoyable; the love story of Claire and Jamie is differently my favorite part, though. It's romantic along with like you know the rough, real life they supposedly went through, and everyday wars, and the trails and things like that; but it's romantic. They have a real love. Claire is a character that I think I would emulate to be in that she's strong, she doesn't cave; and she's in this completely foreign surrounding. She kind of steps up to the task.
I've read this whole series like three or four times. I would recommend it. There's nothing I don't like about this book. You have to suspend some reality belief, but it's fun. I definitely think this series is engineered more toward women because of the romance aspect of it, so I would recommend it to anyone 15-60, anyone in there. Even up to 80, I think women would enjoy this book. I would give this book five stars. --
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