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An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander) |  | Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  349 reviews
Sales Rank: 110
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First edition, as stated
Pages: 832
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.5 x 2.2
ISBN: 0385342454
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385342452
ASIN: 0385342454
Publication Date: September 22, 2009
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Product Description
Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.
Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.
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 Another writer trying to make a buck... November 27, 2009
Lisa F. Brown (Menifee, CA)
I have absolutely loved this series...until now. Like other reviewers, I reached the end of the novel (read on my Kindle) and couldn't believe it was ending. It felt like the entire purpose of this novel was to set up the next novel. Normally, I wouldn't mind, but so much time passes between each edition that I fear that I'll forget what happened. Of course, I could just read the last two hundred pages over again and be caught up, since that is where ALL of the action occurs. If she weren't so busy working on the Lord John novels in between, we could wrap up this series. Overall, I was very disappointed this time around, however, given that I'm several novels into a series, I'll have to finish it out when the time comes (if I don't die of old age first!).
Disappointed. November 27, 2009
Sophie Leclerc (Montreal,Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well,after waiting 4 years for the book,i have to say that i am very disappointed with it.
Too many characters to deal with & too jumpy.
I usually read my books in a few sittings but this one took me weeks to read.
I was annoyed that there was so much of Lord John in it and barely anything of substance about Jamie & Claire.
If i wanted to read about Lord John,i would go & buy that serie.
I have been an avid reader of the serie since 1992 but i am seriously considering stopping at this one.
It feels like the author has lost her interest into her main characters & the fire that was driving the story.
 Nothing to complain about this book! November 27, 2009
AngelS (Citizen of the World)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been reading all of these reviews, and I don't understand why everyone is so perplexed about where the story is going although I respect their view. But I most say that all the lukewarm review made me read the book with a sense of awareness that helped me realize were Ms. Gabaldon wanted to take us with it, and at the same time had me prepared for the major cliffhangers.
Ms. Gabaldon has taken us out of our "comfort" zone with Jamie & Claire's story many times and we have had different characters that are part of each place they have called "home" and I don't see the difference in this book regarding the introduction of new characters. Jamie & Claire have always seem to me to be wanderers and the fact is that home is when they are both together so them leaving the Ridge made me sad but at the same time I expected it to happen.
Also it makes sense for William and Lord John's story to be developed in this book, you can tell that this is some of a transition book to several "new" story lines in the overall story. I have no problem reading about Lord John, or William, or Bree et all, or Ian. This is all people that are most important in Jamie & Claire's life and as a mature relationship they have gotten to a place emotionally where is not about themselves only (actually they got there a long time ago), they truly care about their family and therefore we get to read about them more and more.
I didn't feel any of the story lines or even the characters that were introduced or reintroduced were dropped in the story just because, as I read in another review. It is obvious we will be reading more about Mr. Beauchamp, Randall-Issacs even Tom Christie. They were merely introduced in the book by Lord John, William's or J&C's story line and they will definitely be back. This is another reason we saw more of Lord John and William, although the reviews in Amazon made me feel I was going to read way too much about them, I still felt the prominent storyline was Claire & Jamie's.
The jumping around the different story lines bothered me only at the very beginning and then I picked up the flow of the story and realize that I was being taken to the point were all of them but one was going to come together, and boy what a way to come together.
I guess the only complaint and I can't really call it that is that I would have preferred a "longer" ending but that is purely selfish on my part. I loved the book, is just one more vignette in Claire & Jamie's amazing story.
Quintessential Outlander November 26, 2009
S. THAYERYATES (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't believe fans of the Outlander series aren't giving this book rave reviews. I almost didn't buy it because I read the reviews herein, but am happy that my literary chocolate craving (because that's what I would call this series) won out. In fact, I liked it so much that I spent the next five days in an Outlander-fest re-reading its predecessors. If you are a fan of Diana Gabaldon and this series, you will love this book. As always, it is rich with history, character development and beautifully written passages that keep you longing for the next page!
 An Echo in the Bone: A Novel November 25, 2009
Freddie Fuller (Houston, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As long as I have waited for the next installment in this much loved series, I was very disappointed in the number of major clifthangers. There was no feeling of gratification only frustration in knowing it will be years before we get answers. Do your fans a favor, either tie story lines up better or speed up the process.
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