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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander (Gabaldon), 2) Audio CD – Unabridged, October 3, 2006

by Diana Gabaldon (Author), Davina Porter (Narrator)
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  1. Book 2 of 9
    Outlander
  2. Language
    English
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    Recorded Books, Inc.
  4. Publication date
    October 3, 2006
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    6.2 x 4 x 5.7 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1419381024
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1419381027
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Dragonfly in Amber

By Diana Gabaldon

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ISBN: 9781419381027
"It's only the English who are hunting Charles Stuart. It will be the English, and the clans as well, who hunt me. I am a traitor twice over, a rebel and a murderer. Claire..." Jamie paused, rubbing a hand across the back of his neck, then said gently, "Claire, I am a dead man."

The tears were freezing on my cheeks, leaving icy trails that burned my skin.

"No," I said again, but to no effect.

"I'm no precisely inconspicuous, ye ken," he said, trying to make a joke of it as he ran a hand through the rusty locks of his hair. "Red Jamie wouldna get far, I think. But you..." He touched my mouth, tracing the line of my lips. "I can save you, Claire, and I will. That is the most important thing. But then I shall go back—for my men."

"The men from Lallybroch? But how?"

Jamie frowned, absently fingering the hilt of his sword as he thought.

"I think I can get them away. It will be confused on the moor, wi' men and horses moving to and fro, and orders shouted and contradicted; battles are verra messy affairs. And even if it's known by then what I—what I have done," he continued, with a momentary catch in his voice, "there are none who would stop me then, wi' the English in sight and the battle about to begin. Aye, I can do it," he said. His voice had steadied, and his fists clenched at his sides with determination.

"They will follow me without question—God help them, that's what's brought them here! Murtagh will have gathered them for me; I shall take them and lead them from the field. If anyone tries to stop me, I shall say that I claim the right to lead my own men in battle; not even Young Simon will deny me that."

He drew a deep breath, brows knit as he visualized the scene on the battlefield come morning.

"I shall bring them safely away. The field is broad enough, and there are enough men that no one will realize that we havena but moved to a new position. I shall bring them off the moor, and see them set on the road toward Lallybroch."

He fell silent, as though this were as far as he had thought in his plans.

"And then?" I asked, not wanting to know the answer, but unable to stop myself.

"And then I shall turn back to Culloden," he said, letting out his breath. He gave me an unsteady smile. "I'm no afraid to die, Sassenach." His mouth quirked wryly. "Well ... not a lot, anyway. But some of the ways of accomplishing the fact..." A brief, involuntary shudder ran through him, but he tried to keep smiling.

"I doubt I should be thought worthy of the services of a true professional, but I expect in such a case, both Monsieur Forez and myself might find it ... awkward. I mean, havin' my heart cut out by someone I've shared wine with..."

With a sound of incoherent distress, I flung my arms around him, holding him as tightly as I could.

"It's all right," he whispered into my hair. "It's all right, Sassenach. A musket ball. Maybe a blade. It will be over quickly."

I knew this was a lie; I had seen enough of battle wounds and the deaths of warriors. All that was true was that it was better than waiting for the hangman's noose. The terror that had ridden with me from Sandringham's estate rose now to high tide, choking, drowning me. My ears rang with my own pulsebeat, and my throat closed so tight that I felt I could not breathe.

Then all at once, the fear left me. I could not leave him, and I would not.

"Jamie," I said, into the folds of his plaid. "I'm going back with you."

He started back, staring down at me.

"The hell you are!" he said.

"I am." I felt very calm, with no trace of doubt. "I can make a kilt of my arisaid; there are enough young boys with the army that I can pass for one. You've said yourself it will all be confusion. No one will notice."

"No!" he said. "No, Claire!" His jaw was clenched, and he was glaring at me with a mixture of anger and horror.

"If you're not afraid, I'm not either," I said, firming my own jaw. "It will ... be over quickly. You said so." My chin was beginning to quiver, despite my determination. "Jamie—I won't ... I can't ... I bloody won't live without you, and that's all!"

He opened his mouth, speechless, then closed it, shaking his head. The light over the mountains was failing, painting the clouds with a dull red glow. At last he reached for me, drew me close and held me.

"D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you—then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it." His hand stroked my hair, the roughness of his knuckles catching in the blowing strands.

"But ye must do it, mo duinne. My brave lioness. Ye must."

"Why?" I demanded, pulling back to look up at him. "When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir—you said then that you would have died with me, you would have gone to the stake with me, had it come to that!"

He grasped my hands, fixing me with a steady blue gaze.

"Aye, I would," he said. "But I wasna carrying your child."



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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recorded Books, Inc.; Unabridged edition (October 3, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419381024
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419381027
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 4 x 5.7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Scattershot plot, odd paragraph structure and, oh my, Diana clearly loves the sound of her voice
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Scattershot plot, odd paragraph structure and, oh my, Diana clearly loves the sound of her voice
Dragonfly in Amber comes across as an assortment of 'episodes' more or less bound together in a (failed) effort to create a cohesive plot and storyline. The strange little paragraphs really testify to this scattershot effort to make it all fit together. The characters are becoming more two-dimensional over time, ie. you can sum up Jaime in three words: anger, rage and eroticism.Diana clearly loves the sound of her own voice (or the sound of those she has written). I believe that this accounts to the finely grained but largely static descriptive passages. She also likes to impress her reader with her vocabulary range; words are usually correctly used but to what purpose? For example, in Chapter 46 (Timor Mortis Conturbat Me) Claire separates the forces accompanying her in order to take a 'shortcut' through a forest, permitting better footing for her mount. In her passage she comes upon a corpse with an amazing blue fungus growing his body. This gives way to a discursive account of how Claire has heard about this in her WWII experience, how ancestors had painted themselves bright blue going into battle (a nod to Braveheart???) As she is contemplating all this, Jamie reappears (I though he was going around the forest). Jamie takes her arm and guides her away 'leaving the dead man behind, clothed in the saprophytic hues of war and sacrifice.' (880) This episode did not advance the storyline nor did it develop the characters. It seemed to me that Diana crafted 15 or so sometimes choppy paragraphs in order to demonstrate that she could use the word 'saprophytic' in a sentence. This was not the only instance where the author sacrifices narrative pattern/pace in order to show her ability to incorporate obscure words and phrases into the text.I found this annoying. Diana could surely have said everything she had to say in this volume in far less that 900 pages. It might have had a better pace, a more cohesive storyline and improved focus on character development. As it was, I felt that the plot dripped like amber sap encasing the dragonfly -- I began to identify with that dragonfly.The next books in the series are even longer. I rather dread the lengthy discursive asides therein. Diana loves to hear herself talk (hear herself write?). But a lot of what she says amounts to no great purpose.
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