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.