Diana Gabaldon's Voyager is a New York Times bestseller and the third book in her bestselling Outlander series. Gabaldon uses her superior writing skills to weave historical details into this beautifully told love story, giving it life and depth. Her characters are strong, intelligent, and brave, and their story is one that ensnares you throughout the novel.
Voyager continues the story of Claire, the time-traveling doctor from the 20th century, and Jamie, her Scottish husband from the 1700s. It's been 20 years since the Jamie sent Claire back to her own time, pregnant and alone, while he went off to die defending Culloden. Claire never thought she'd see Jamie again, or that their daughter would know her father, but news comes that changes everything.
After all this time, Claire has discovered that Jamie did not die in the massacre and is in fact still alive. The revelation forces her to make a hard choice, leave her and Jamie's daughter in the present to travel back in time and find Jamie, or let him go. Claire isn't even sure that Jamie still loves her, and the long, strenuous years have been hard on both of them. Has their love survived it? Will he forgive her for being gone so long?
Diana Gabaldon is an American author best known for her Outlander series. Born and raised in Arizona, she is part English, part Mexican-American, and has been writing novels since 1988. Before taking up writing, Gabaldon earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Northern Arizona University in the early 1970s.
After receiving her bachelors degree, she continued her education obtaining a Master of Science in Marine Biology from the University of California, and a PhD from Northern Arizona University in Ecology. She worked as a faculty member at Arizona State University, but resigned after her first book deal. She currently lives with her husband in Arizona and has three grown children.
"Ok, so it was very obvious when I reread this that I had swine flu when I read this the first time, because there were huge chunks that I did not remember at ALL and I am going to blame it on the fever. Anyway, I love Voyager SO MUCH. I mean, come on, reunions are great, especially when the couple being reunited are crossing centuries to do it. Not gonna lie, I cried a little when Claire came back. This is probably my favorite Outlander book, I think, because it's kind of the beginning of everything that gets explored later in the series. For example, I completely forgot that John was the kid whose arm got broken in Dragonfly in Amber. I knew they went way back, but not THAT far back. I thought that whole bit started at Ardsmuir. And Young Ian is introduced too, and he's just such a wonderful character. *sigh* There's too much love for this book (and series) to contain it in a review. So yea, I loved it a lot and if you're reading this to decide if you should read Voyager, DO IT! But go back to Outlander and Dragonfly In Amber first, no matter what Diana's website says about the stand-alone ability of each book."
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Megan (5 out of 5 stars)