Oh Claire. What to say about you. You claim true love for Jamie but at the same time, you're so cold. You claim to want a child, but are cold to the poor orphan Fergus. I don't know what to think about you Claire. This book had a really intriguing beginning, and an interesting place to start off. The flashback to her time with Jamie did drag at bits. There was definitely some places editing could have been done. I really didn't need all the detail about the rapes or even the boring bits about being a lady in France. Overall though, a good book, I couldn't put it down at the end, I needed to see the conclusion. I guess I have some issues with Claire's understanding of time travel. If shes from the future and what has happened has indeed happened, how could her being in the past change anything (because even in the future, she was always part of the past). I look forward to the next book, Claire without Jamie is just a husk of a character. Without his softness shes just too harsh and unlikeable to read about. I have any issues with her, she's a jerk more than once in this novel but I guess so is Jamie (just not as deliberately so).