This book kept me company in my idle time while traveling last month in Norway. The Outlander series is a favorite of my co-workers, so I had some cautious but high expectations of a sweeping and engrossing historical epic with a lot of sexytime. 
 I liked it. It was a good, hefty, satisfying historical romance. The time travel premise is silly and there's a lot of goofy situations but whatever. But I think I would have been a lot more impressed if I had read Outlander as a teenager. Maybe then Jamie Fraser would have been a literary pin-up boy as Ralph de Bricassart was to me when I was fourteen. I generally feel rather ambivalent towards Claire Randall and Jamie. Of course my favorite character is the evil sadistic Scotsmen-raping English pervert Jonathan Randall. I love him, hahaha.