About this title: In her much-anticipated new novel, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Outlander saga brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John Grey's secret and public lives--a shattering family mystery, a potentially disastrous love affair, and a war that spans continents.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385337496ISBN:0385337493
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Date Published: 2007-11
ISBN-13:9781602850675ISBN:1602850674
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN-13:9780385337496ISBN:0385337493
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date Published: 2007-08-28
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Delta
Date Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN-13:9780385337502ISBN:0385337507
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN-13:9780385337496ISBN:0385337493
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN-13:9780385337496ISBN:0385337493
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Edition: 1st 09/2007 "In her much-anticip
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN-13:9780385337496ISBN:0385337493
Description: Reading Copy or Better (a more c. Hardback: Delacorte Press: 1st 09/2007 "In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey— soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John’ s secret and public lives— a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Delta
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385337502ISBN:0385337507
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"I re-read this book after reading An Echo in the Bone because some of the events in this book are important to the plot of Echo.
Like all of Diana Gabaldon's books this one was even more enjoyable the second time round. I am a huge fan of Lord John Grey and I love that his character has evolved into his own set of books. This book is set in Georgian England of 1758 with a detour into the Continent for a battle during the Seven Years War. Lord John is slowly uncovering the truth behind his father's death, a death that was shamefully deemed to be suicide when John knows that his father was murdered.
His father was slanderously linked to a Jacobite plot and Lord John has to ask for help from Jamie Fraser. This takes us to Helwater just after Geneva's death and gives us a view of events through John's eyes and an impression of Jamie that is very different from the one that Claire gives us in the Outlander series.
We also get to know John's family a lot better. His redoubtable mother is remarrying and when John meets his new stepbrother Percy (short for Perseverance)he realises that they have met before at Lavender House. John and Percy become lovers but John cannot give Percy his heart because he is still obsessed with Jamie. While on campaign in Europe Percy is discovered 'in flagrante delicto' bonking a young soldier. John is one of three witnesses and his evidence will cause Percy to hang. He realises that he cannot condemn Percy to a fate that he is lucky to have escaped himself and contrives to have Percy sprung from Newgate prison and smuggled to Ireland by means of a body swap whereby it appears that Percy has died in prison from gaol fever. Thus the scene is set for Percy's reappearance almost 20 years later in Echo under the assumed name of Beauchamp.
John also suffers a major wound in battle and major depression afterwards, meets up again with his old friend Von Namtzen who has lost an arm in battle and is also suffering from depression, delivers his cousin Olivia's child with the help of Percy in a small room under the church organ during his mother's wedding, solves the mystery of his father's death and restores the family's good name and reputation and becomes godfather to his brother Hal's new born daughter Dorothea, who we meet again as Dottie in Echo.
"I dithered about this. I feel a little odd giving a guilty-pleasure just-for-fun book like this five stars, but when I compare it to what I have recently given four, well, I have no choice. Because I loved this so very, very much.
This is the kind of book I want to write, the kind of book I wish there was a whole lot more of. It's basically slash fanfic for her Outlander series, I gather, and it seems that whichever you read first, you prefer. (And oddly, the bits that involve Jamie Fraser are my least favorite. I don't care for the one-sided relationship.) What I love is that it has gobs of UST and semi-explicit erotic romance but is not, at heart, a romance. I am not a romance genre fan, and that is what wrecks most m/m novels for me. This is an adventure/mystery story, and the plot twists that deal with the realities of being a homosexual soldier and nobleman in the 18th century are fabulous and terrifying at the same time. The battle scenes are gripping, and the society interludes wickedly funny. I appreciate the careful structure, with guns subtly hung on the walls in early parts that are later duly fired to great effect. The characters are interesting and engaging and seem quite real to me.
I also have to admit that a large part of my enjoyment of this book was listening to the audio version as narrated by Jeff Woodman. Be still my heart, especially in the more explicit scenes. He does the accents expertly and it all comes alive, and people wonder why I'm grinning like a fool while I'm jogging down the river path. La la la."
"First impressions: no idea she wrote this (sort of thing)! I was pleasantly surprised, after taking a risk on a $4 nice hardcover copy, some vague inklings in re the jacket notes, and generally pleasant memory of her Outlander series, to find that this was - subject matter wise - right up my alley, if you take my meaning (cough). So, about two paragraphs in, I realised my mistake. Or hers. She must have written this entire thing while under the effects of some mentally-debilitating drug. That's the only thing I can figure. I recall her writing being fairly tight and well-plotted, but this... this was a disaster on white paper. The beginning was so gauche, amateurly constructed, with horrifyingly confusing transitions and motivation. In fact, for most of the book, I had no real idea what on earth was going on. It's funny, because Gabaldon actually dedicated one of her other books in this series to, among others, Mr. Wodehouse himself. When, in fact, it was the Master who made me so acutely aware of how awful her writing is. Well, anyway, I made a whole bunch of notes about the childish blundering mistakes she made, and how much they offended me, but I suppose they are of no real worth except to boil my blood once again. Since I seem to do pretty well on my own with that, I think I shall omit them from the record. Oh, and the greatest offense - a bad ending. In all fairness, I think a lot of the issues could have been remedied by a really good editor. But I was in doubt as to whether anyone edited it at all, honestly..."
"I dropped away from Diana Gabaldon's main (hetero) romance series after the second or third book, mostly because het romance isn't my thing, and possibly because she shifted the locale to the Americas, while my own initial interest was because of the Scottish setting. ("Outlander", the first book, owes a certain amount to an old favourite of mine, "The Flight of the Heron", though they are certainly very different in tone, detail and degree of graphic sex!)
Anyway, Lord John, a minor character in the het series, appears to be getting his own set of adventures; I enjoyed the first one, though it was short and fairly light. This one is much more substantial and really well done. The fine points of drawing room and battlefield ring true. I won't give away details of the plot so as not to spoil anyone, but if you read it, prepare to come up solidly against the harsh reality of 18th-century treatment of man-loving men. And also prepare to see our beloved Jamie Fraser utter some fairly virulent homophobic sentiments, in the true spirit of his time. (It's just as well I had the memory of a Fraser/Lord John sequence in one of the other books - Voyager? - where Jamie "gets over it" to the point of giving Lord John a wee kiss, to sustain me.)
I have the next in the series on my shelf. Looking forward to it!"
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