Voyager: Part 1 and 2

Simply brilliant.

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Davina Porter is the BEST narrator I have ever heard! She literally brings the book to life.

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It took me a while to finish Dragonfly in Amber, but I could not stop listening to Voyager. The narration is fabulous - Davina Porter has an excellent cadence and her voices and accent help the characters stand out and become more real. Really enjoyed the new characters that were introduced, and the relationships between existing characters from the Outlander series. The pace of events at the end of this book was very fast, and I found myself wishing for more time in the West Indies (no spoilers, but felt like there was not enough time spent tying together some of the events from the earlier book, and there was not enough satisfying resolution), but loved all the intrigue of magic and witchcraft, blended with romance and time travel.

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spellbinding. you feel uou are there as another witness in time.

I loved this book and I loved the narrator. I am usually too lazy to read books with too much ''wordy illustration'' but I enjoyed the picture that the words were drawing by listening to it and not reading. I loved the story and I loved that the author showed the real struggle of these 2 protagonist to reconnect. It was not only sunshine and rainbows but fights and heartache. I was kind of happy that they did not have proper absolution/reckoning after their biggest fight (unexpected meeting at Lallybroch) but kind of ended up sailing (literally and figuratively) together anyways. I was happy that the book was so lengthy and I was sad when it ended. I will re-listen this after some time with bit faster speed (1,5x) The narrator speaks so calmly that it is still understandable when the reading is sped-up.

Diana Gabaldon does an amazing job depicting the mentality and way of life in the Highlands in the 1700's. The books can seem a little too dense at times, but there is a purpose to every sentence she has written, it might just take a bit to become apparent why... I love Claire and Jamie and the unpredictable tale that Ms. Gabaldon weaves! I am about to start the 4th book in the series (after reading the first one over and over and over again) and I cannot wait to see what she has in store for me. Davina does a great job with Jamie and Claire's sarcastic whit and I really enjoy her narration throughout the story. She does a great job with each accent presented (and there are quite a few) and she really embodies the characters. I can always tell exactly who she portraying. All in all a very entertaining read! (Or listen!)

I'm hooked, on to the next book in the series!

Great series, wonderful narration.

I am obsessed with this series! Wonder listen. Now onto the next.

I loved the first two books in this series, but in this book the author’s depictions several characters were offensive and racist. Her portrait of a Chinese man is nearly as bad as Mickey Rooney’s “Japanese” character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and (semi-spoiler alert) all it takes is a hot bath for Claire to go from being horrified by the conditions of slavery to basically being ok with it. I’m embarrassed to have recommended this series to friends in the past, and really disappointed with the turn it’s taken.