@TatinG , I agree. The first 3 books are my favorite. After that I liked each one a little less.
Maybe I missed it, but in the current season, was the reason for Young Ianās return to Fraser Ridge not addressed? At one point it may have hinted to have involved his wife?? Out of the blue, he just shows up, and no one asks whatās going on.
Very interesting season finale. Found it interesting that in the fantasy sequences, I recognized Jocasta immediately, but cleaned-up-and-modernized Murtaugh, I didnāt recognize at first.
Marsali looked very different as well, but blonde hair made her easy to figure out.
We just started watching it last Sunday (7 day free trial STARZ). Wife is watching it at this very moment. I can only watch 2 episodes in a night - she keeps going! I canāt believe this thread was started 8 years ago! LOL.
She read about the series, and said there is something about a River Run Plantation in North Carolina. We live a few miles from a River Run neighborhood (built around a country club and golf course of the same name). I wonder if that was it.
@NJres if you have Netflix the first 3 (?) seasons are on there, in case your Starz trial runs out. We have Comcast and this week , until Sunday is WATCHATHON, with free HBO, Starz, Epix, etc. Were able to watch last 5 episodes of Outlander, and episodes 3-5 of Belgravia (recording ep 6 tomorrow). Free Acorn as well.
Gotta binge when ya can!
This is not about the TV series but book 9, āDont Tell the Bees that Iāve Goneā comes out November 23rd. It seemed like it took forever 
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It did take forever. The last one was 2016. I havenāt been quite as enamored with her books since Echo (book 7). There have been storylines that are brilliant, but others written for shock value. The writing in that first book was brilliant. I think she lost something through the years. Too much filler.
Is anyone reading her new book? Iām rereading the one before as Iāve forgotten everything. I sure hope this new one is better than the last 2.
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I bought the book but am finishing a novel from the library first.
I gave up on her books after a Breath of Snow and Ashes, and have not been motivated to change my mind based on what Iām been hearing and reading on this thread. However, in the interim, Iāve binge-watched all seasons of the show. I initially just watched the first half of S1 when it first aired but never went back to it after the mid-season break, and didnāt return until during the pandemic when I was looking for more shows to occupy me. I now am obsessed with the show - Claire and Jaime are so well cast). This has only reinforced my decision to not read the rest of the books in the series as I can get my Outlander fix through the show, unless someone can offer me a compelling reason for why I should finish reading the series.
Just finished it this past weekend. I liked it. But, I feel like Iāve waited so long that it could have been complete rubbish and I still would have liked it.
Overall, definitely not one of my favorites but not one of the worst either. I definitely liked it better than the last two.
(Would love to talk more in detail after you read it!)
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For me, even the worst books have been more compelling than the show. I really enjoy the richness of descriptions and details.
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I finished it last week. If all goes as it normally does Iāll pick it up in a few weeks and read it again. I often scan over portions where I think I have the gist of things and move on to what I perceive as more interesting plot lines. Later Iāll read those sections more deliberately since I know the plot. I usually find details that I appreciate more since I can place them in context. It took her 7 years to write this book. I started out reading āOutlanderā much older than the main characters and am close in age to them now. If itās another 7 years Iāll be older again. Rats.
Iāll be doing the same, in terms of re-reading.
I watched an interview with Diana and she said sheās already started book 10 so hopefully it wonāt be 7 years this time!
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Well that is promising! Iām slogging my way through the one before. Can barely read more than 30 minutes at a time before it starts putting me to sleep.
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There were definitely parts of those last two that I skimmed the second time around. I donāt like all the details of the battle/war stuff so I tended to read through that much faster than the rest of the book.
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I am on the waitlist at the library for this book. I found the last one meandered a whole lot - there were definitely sections that could have been skipped! I have to refresh my memory on what the state of affairs was at the end of the last book before I begin this one.
I am about 100 pages into Go Tell the Bees and I am enjoying it. Iām just having a hard time remembering some of the lesser characters and how they fit into the plot of the last book: Fanny, for example and John Quincy. Itās been about three years since I read the last book.
I donāt think John Quincy was in the last book. He is a mountain man and moves around the area with both the settlers and the Indians. He was introduced in book 4 (He was a very tall man and Claire did surgery on him). Fanny was Janes sister if that helps. She was the one that was tongue tied and Claire fixed that for her at the end of the last book. None of what I just said are spoilers.
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Well season six starts this Sunday, March 6th. One of the challenges of having the seasons be so far apart is the potential to lose interest in the story line. Being an avid fan of the books Iām hoping I can enjoy the series and separate my love of the books from my interest in what season six is attempting to present. The series is already out of sink with the books. Will it keep my interest? Weāll see.
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We donāt have Starz, so weāll wait until all episodes have been released and the yearly āfree Starz for a weekā offer takes place.
Off topic, but does anyone know if any more Philippa Gregory novels have been made into series for Starz? We enjoyed White Queen, White Princess and Spanish Princess. Donāt need to watch Game of ThronesāWar of the Roses was just as crazy!