928 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2021 by Penguin Random House.
It was wonderful. I really don't have any words. Gabaldon can sure tell a story! And Bees is a heckuva story. My only quibble with it is that Gabaldon does not tie up all her plot threads neatly, but leaves us with a cliffhanger. That, to me, when it takes 7-8 years to crank out another one, is cruel. Especially at my age, lol! I might be gone by the next one.
I think I have a love/hate relationship with these books and the author. I truly don't care about 18th century medicine, whether it takes place on a battlefield or on the backside of a mountain. I don't care about the various battles of the American Revolution. I actually don't care about Jamie and Claire having sex, though thankfully there's more "fade to black" in this book than there have been in past books. Even all of these things I don't care about, I still find these books very readable and easy to get caught up in. Maybe I like the doorstopper nature of it, even though I know all of the plot points won't get resolved in this installment. I think at this point, I just like Jamie, Claire, and the rest of the clan and am invested in what else happens to them, even when they do things I …
I think I have a love/hate relationship with these books and the author. I truly don't care about 18th century medicine, whether it takes place on a battlefield or on the backside of a mountain. I don't care about the various battles of the American Revolution. I actually don't care about Jamie and Claire having sex, though thankfully there's more "fade to black" in this book than there have been in past books. Even all of these things I don't care about, I still find these books very readable and easy to get caught up in. Maybe I like the doorstopper nature of it, even though I know all of the plot points won't get resolved in this installment. I think at this point, I just like Jamie, Claire, and the rest of the clan and am invested in what else happens to them, even when they do things I don't care to read about extensively.
