Summary

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.

https://outlander.fandom.com/wiki/Go_Tell_the_Bees_That_I_Am_Gone

I shouldn’t have picked this book up. I know that I like chunky stories but this one is on par with Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy as it explains and over-explains the decor where the main action happens. Or when the main action happens.

I thought it was a standalone novel yet some characters were treated as long lost friends and I had a suspicion (later confirmed) that I had (yet again) accidentally picked up a book from a series (again). I hated it with a passion. Read the first three chapters and then started scrolling to see when the action will actually pick up.

The book is a behemoth of nothingness. People travel from the future back to 1779. They talk a lot and they do stuff together for the first half of the book. They form a militia to prepare for the upcoming war. Claire has medical issues. A lord and a guy are looking for their nephew for a very long time. When Bree returned from the future, she brought along her other father’s book about the history of Scots in North Carolina that had just been published before she left. As Jamie reads this book, he gets the eerie feeling that Frank Randall is talking directly to him.

There’s time travel and there’s this thing…

This went back to the donation pile very quickly.

I think you might feel different if you’re a fan, but since I haven’t read any of the story so far, it felt like I ran across somebody’s diary.

Do not recommend.