Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Rating: â 3/5
Date Read: 2013/06/15
Pages: 850
Iâm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Outlander has a higher average rating than Middlemarch, Ulysses, and Anna Karenina. This book is fun, as you might expect from a time-travel romance novel, but itâs not particularly good. Scratch that: itâs actually kind of bad.
Okay, you know those truth or dare games you played in middle/high school? You know how you totally wished that that one guy you knew would convince his awesome hot friend (you know, the one whose name you scribbled all over your notebooks, surrounded by hearts) to date you ON A DARE. And at first, it would totally not be all about feelings or anything, because itâs A DARE, so you could both be really blasĂ© about the whole thing. But, eventually, youâd actually find out that youâre really in love with each other, and it wouldnât feel like a dare anymore at all, and everything would work out perfectly, and youâd get to wear a really awesome dress to prom. Well, you know how this actually works out: eventually, you find out that your life is not like the 1999 film Sheâs All That (related disappointing revelation: you find out that youâre just as attractive without your glasses as you are with them. Turns out, taking off your glasses DOES NOT automatically make you a super model, no matter what your favorite Disney Channel Original Movie has lead you to believe).
Anyway, Outlander is a lot like that. But with Highlanders.