The Fiery Cross: A Novel

Diana Gabaldon

Oct 2002 · Outlander Book 5 · Sold by Dell

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.

“A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].”—CNN
 
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge.

Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time—1743—when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army.

Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor—Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.

Ratings and reviews

These books will take you on a trip as if you go through the stones with Claire. You will laugh, cry, worry and smile along with the characters. I started reading the series before the show began and wondered if it would do justice to it. There are obviously changes and I prefer the books, but still like the show (mostly for Jaime, even if he's different than the books).

Part of the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. Beloved characters Claire and Jamie Fraser are now in the colonies in pre-revolutionary war. Their lives and lives of their extended families are drawn ever closer to the war. Jamie and Claire are desperate to stay out of another conflict. Questions are answered in this novel but even more are asked! Gabaldon is a master at conversation and description. You are right there with the characters. Go ahead..start with the beginning and then read them all!

I mostly liked the others, but this meandering mess of a book found new ways to bore & irritate me. Really, the spiral began toward the end of "Drums", where we find that Bree is far more insufferable than she is compelling, then endure a contrived "Big Misunderstanding" drama, in which Jamie beats & enslaves Roger, rescues him upon realizing his error, then somehow still finds the gall to scorn him. The husk of that leaden plot drags itself into "Cross", where it only plods on aimlessly, at a glacial pace.

About the author

Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels—Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voy­ager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, and Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone—as well as the related Lord John Grey books, Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; a collection of novellas, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; three works of nonfiction, “I Give You My Body . . .” and The Outlandish Com­panion, Volumes 1 and 2; the Outlander graphic novel The Exile; and The Official Outlander Coloring Book. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.