A review by mkmcelroy
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

dark emotional funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.0

This book was just genuinely so bad. 
  1. It was obscenely long considering how thin the plot was. And it was poorly structured with heavy handed “foreshadowing” that left you certain where different threads would lead, only to take hundreds of pages to get there
  2. There was so many sex scenes that did nothing to serve the plot. Those moments  and the repetitive descriptions of setting probably composed a good 600 pages of the book
  3. Various forms of abuse are frequently justified and often treated in a flippant manner that’s just cold and disrespectful
  4. The amount of rape and sexual abuse is excessive and described in unnecessarily explicit detail. It felt like an attempt to sensationalize the topic rather than provide any meaningful commentary. Instead it was repeatedly used as a cheap plot device to raise stakes.
  5. The book also played heavily into the evil gay trope, seeming to take more offense to gay sex than rape.


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