Dear Midnight by Zack Grey...
Grey combines aesthetic with a tragic love st...
By Zora Flatley3964
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“He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.”
Two decades ago, Claire was thrust through the standing stones of Craig Na Dunn, back into the eighteenth century, and into the arms of the gallant and noble Scot, Jamie Fraser. Having been forced to travel back in time to give birth to their daughter, and to raise her without him, Claire was forced to endure the pain of their separation, believing Jamie to have perished in the ill-fated battle of Culloden.
Until Claire discovers that Jamie has survived, and must choose between staying in her own time with her daughter, or going back in time to find him, without knowing what perils await her in a land divided by war.
Gabaldon’s style has not wavered. If anything, it has strengthened and grown far more powerful time, with the years between releases allowing for more conscience and emotionally mature look at a story that has captured the hearts of millions around the world.
Gabaldon knows exactly how to pace her novel, how to even out her story and flesh it out, allowing it to breathe, and giving us plenty more secondary characters to root for more, along with a few fan favorites.
But it is the progression of Jamie and Claire’s love story that keeps you enthralled, dealing with the issue of aging and separation with a great deal of finesse and delicacy, Gabaldon never shies away from the truth, regardless of how painful it is, and neither do her characters, often facing danger, and the very fabric of history to stay together.
Voyager resonates in the same way its predecessors did, but it is also a departure from the previous two in its grounded realism, and the harsh reality of the difficulty of growing older.
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