- Author: Diana Gabaldon
I bought The Fiery Cross a couple years ago. I was introduced to Outlander through my book club, and when I finished it, I bought Dragonfly in Amber. When I finished it, very late on a school night, I immediately bought and began reading the ebook version of Voyager. To save money and avoid anymore 1 am ebook purchases, I went on a quest to find the rest of the books in the series in used bookstores. While I did manage to find them, life and other books got in the way of reading them. I read The Drums of Autumn about a year and a half ago but didn’t start The Fiery Cross until this February.
While I spent more time getting through this book than any other in the series, that’s not because of the book itself or the fact that it could be a doorstop. I’ve been reading brick-sized books since I was 12 and I love this series. I’m attached to the characters to a degree I haven’t experienced since I read Anne Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles”. This is the book I wanted to read instead of so many other books this year, but I signed up for several reading challenges, and it only qualifies for one of them. When I found myself in the kind of stubborn mood that made me refuse to read anything I “should” read, I finished the remaining 400 pages within a couple days. There were several tension-filled on the edge of the couch moments in those pages, and a couple of them made me shed tears of relief after everything worked out. I can’t wait until I have the time to start A Breath of Snow and Ashes!