Voyager
by Diana Gabaldon
From
the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the
extraordinary saga continues.
Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.
Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite—or forever doom—her timeless love.
Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.
Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite—or forever doom—her timeless love.
Published & Release Date: Random
House, October 26, 2004
Time
and setting: Scotland 1968/1766
Genre:
Historical Romance/Epic Adventure
Heat
Level: 2
Reviewer rating: 5 Gold Crowns
Reviewed by Vikki
Voyager is spell-binding in the extreme. This one
kept me on the edge of my seat for the entire book from start to finish. Even
though I have read this book before, it still caught me by surprise. I did not
remember it being such an exciting, nail biting read. This book is so much more
than just a romance, even though the love between Claire and Jamie is a love of
a lifetime in its intensity. I am so glad I decided to read this epic series
again.
When Claire finds out Jamie survived the Battle of
Culloden, she is faced with an agonizing decision. Does she go back to his era
to find him, or stay in hers with her daughter. While Brianna did not take the
initial news that Frank was not her father, as she helps to discover what happened
to her birth father and grows to understand the great love between her mother and Jamie
Fraser, she encourages Claire to go find him. When they determine that if time
moves parallel then she should end up twenty years from when she last saw
Jamie. Brianna tells her mother, “Then
you can go back, Mama,” she said softly. “You can find him.”
Even though it has been twenty years since she
returned to her own time, her heart has never forgotten the love they shared.
Claire returns to Craigh na Dun, but just when she begins to doubt whether she
should go, Brianna convinces her. “We owe
it to him, Mama,” she said softly. “Somebody has to find him, and tell him.” Her
hand touched my face, briefly. “Tell him I was born.” Claire takes a step and then another and is
swept back through the crack in time to 1766.
When Jamie and Claire see each other for the first
time in twenty years they are so stunned to be together it’s as if time stands
still. I felt my heart pounding with their hearts. I felt their joy, their
fear, their uncertainty. They come together slowly, afraid to believe they are
actually together again. Of course all is not smooth for them. They begin a
journey to places neither of them had ever imagined going.
There are so many incredible moments in this amazing
story, I bookmarked pages and pages of these moments, way too many to even
begin to share. I will share this one moment since it deeply touched my soul.
Jamie: “Do ye
want me?” he whispered. “Sassenach, will ye take me—and risk the man that I am,
for the sake of the man ye knew?”
Claire: “It’s a lot too late to ask that,” I said,
and reached to touch his cheek, where the rough beard was starting to show. It
was soft under my fingers, like stiff plush. “Because I’ve already risked
everything I had. But whoever you are now, Jamie Fraser—yes. Yes, I do want
you.”
While I do recommend you start with Outlander first,
if you have not read it yet, you will not want to miss this amazing story. Even
though all the books in this series are long, they do not read that way. They
are extremely fast paced, keeping me reading well into the night. I am
confident they will do the same for you. Happy reading!
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