<p>@caraid, thank you. I’ve ordered the The Space Between (in its compilation of whatever else) for after Voyager. Will continue on with the main series.</p>
<p>Had to go back to the show after reading, I realized I missed some stuff after reading the book, like the identity of the Scot looking up at Claire’s window in the first episode (now I see it, sure didn’t when I saw it the first time), and the wanted poster in episode 8. </p>
<p>(OK, my 20 year old son just took the first book outside to read. Eek)</p>
<p>^^^In every book I read, I’d wonder if we were going to find out the explanation for that scene, lol. Talk about a long wait to have curiosity satisfied.</p>
<p>Darn. I was hoping to find out about that in DIA. Guess I’ll have to wait.What I meant when I said I had to go back and see, I meant I didn’t realize it was him at all, thought it was some random Scottish ghost. When you see it again knowing what he looks like, it’s clearly him. But clear as mud in general, I guess.</p>
<p>So 8 won’t be it for the series? There will be 9? Or have you all not read the 8th yet?</p>
<p>There will be a 9th. She hasn’t said when she will stop writing the series, but the story’s conclusion will be around 1800 and we will find out about Jamie’s ghost then. This is quite a saga…and I promise you will end up loving Roger. I personally didn’t like the last 2books much so hopefully she will start to wind things up…but others have loved them. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>After reading about the Outlander series on CC, I read thru them. Last moth, I started on the LJ books. Not as good, but I wanted more from the author.</p>
<p>I read book 8. Book 9 is going to be the last in the series, but Diana may still write some other books about different characters. I believe she also said she’s writing a prequel.</p>
<p>Maeve Binchey has some fun books out there to read, btw. Tara Road is a good place to start with her books. Not a time traveling story, but fun. </p>
<p>^^^^It’s in Outlander. Frank has been caught up late doing his research and as he approaches the Inn where he and Claire are staying, a storm has it the village; he sees a man in Highlander garb standing in the rain looking up at Claire through the window as she brushes her hair. Protective of his wife, Frank calls out at the Scot, but the man turns and almost seems to pass through him. It unnerves Frank and he tells Claire, asking if she knew any young Scots from the war. </p>
<p>I kept thinking it would be explained, but it never was.</p>
<p>Always a romantic, I thought his love for her, and hers for him, left a transcendental impression. Jamie was back in Claire’s thoughts (as always, as she studied to be M.D. and knowledge of primitive herbs), and came thru so strong as to be seen by Frank. In other words, it was the real Jamie, in thoughts, that followed thru time to see what happened to Claire.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for another great time travel book, one of my favorites, Time and Again (by Jack Finney), is currently on sale as a Kindle book for $1.99.</p>
<p>I also read all the books, and enjoyed Voyager most after Outlander. But I never even heard of the series until 2009 or so, so I binge-read them! My husband was amused by it all, but now he’s reading them as well, and is most of the way through Voyager. </p>
<p>I didn’t find #8 very satisfying, though. I think Ms. Gabaldon needs to wrap this story up in the next book-- or at most, one more after that. JMO.</p>
<p>And we do not have STARZ so I only saw episode 1, which was free. Hope to see them on DVD whenever they are released.</p>
<p>Yes…I think she is running out of steam with the story and her later books are full of boring filler, IMHO. Also, there are 2 times a year that ghosts can roam the earth, according to Mrs. graham. Beltane and Salhaim. That is when Jamie saw Her at the window…</p>
<p>But in 1945 or soon afterward, they’re both alive together in 1750-something. Unless DG is going to kill Claire off back in the 1700s in book 9, in which case there would be no her in 1945 (?), Claire’s ghost and Jamie’s should be roaming the earth together. Or I am really confused.</p>
<p>Just finished book 8 last night. I agree, DG is running out of gas.</p>
<p>The whole thing confuses me, too. I think she’s also going to tell us about the “forget me not” flowers that were at Craig Na Duhn the first Claire visited. I know many of us really didn’t like Book 8 and I won’t give away the spoiler from Book 7…but I HATED that story line…didn’t ring true, read like Fan Fiction to me. That’s all I’m going to say because it’s a big spoiler. I don’t know how she can wrap this up in just one more novel unless she just jumps ahead a couple of decades, or something. But she has so many things in the fire right now, people change, her writings changed over the decades. I hope the last novel is action packed,lots of dialogue and tight like the first few.</p>
<p>I liked book 8. I wasn’t crazy about book 7. I did listen to the whole series on Audible before I read book 8. I liked book 7 more when I was able to read book 8 as soon as I finished 7. 7 and 8 were really one big story.</p>