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Loading... A Trail of Fire (edition 2012)by Diana Gabaldon
Work InformationA Trail of Fire: Four Outlander Tales by Diana Gabaldon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I impulsively picked this book up when I was at the library last week. I don't normally read short stories, in fact, I can't remember the last time I did read one. I thought seeing as I really liked the first 4 books in the Outlander series I might like these. I also thought that reading them might inspire me to tackle the next book in the series that I am up to, which is [The Fiery Cross], a huge 1400 pages! Well, I was right. I really enjoyed these stories and I am now more open to reading short story collections in the future. Not only that, I have picked up [The Fiery Cross] from my bookshelf and got out a bookmark ready to start it today. The first story in the collection is about Roger MacKenzie's parents. I would have to say that this is my favourite in the book. The next two are Lord John stories. The final story involves characters from [An Echo in the Bone] (which I haven't read yet). Overall I found the stories quite good. I don't know if people who haven't read any of the main books in the series would enjoy them as much. I also liked the author's introduction to each story, saying where and how the stories fit into the series. Another thing I really liked was a little bit at the end where the author talks about her books and stories, how they work in together, and the sequential order to read them. no reviews | add a review
In LORD JOHN AND THE PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unsusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population. In THE SPACE BETWEEN, Jamie Fraser's step-daughter Joan is on her way to an abbey in paris to become a nun - but when she meets the Comte St Germain, a wealthy French aristocrat rumoured to to deal in the occult - she discovers her destiny lies on a quite different path. In THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY, Lord John Grey is summoned as a witness in a court martial in the wilds of Acadia, only to find himself playing a crucial role in the Battle of Quebec. In A LEAF ON THE WIND OF ALL HALLOWS, a WW2 Spitfire pilot called Jerry MacKenzie crashes near a stone circle and wakes up in the eighteenth century. Can the strange man he meets - who impossibly seems to know him - help him return to his wife and baby son before a terrible fate overtakes them? No library descriptions found. |
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I had already read 3 of the 4 novellas in other collections. Both of the Lord John novellas were quite good, as well as A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (although that title always makes me think of the movie Serenity-oh, Wash).
The Space Between was my least favorite. It was worth reading for a couple of the secrets it revealed, but I didn't really care much about the relationships, and the characterization wasn't up to her usual high standards.
Still, on the strength of the other 3 novellas, I highly recommend this to Outlander fans to tide them over until the next giant block of a book comes out. ( )