Historical fiction is not usually a favorite of mine. It's too much like oatmeal - supposed to be good for you but not very delicious. Anytime you add in a love story though, it gets better. This was a pretty good love story.
Claire Randall starts out in Scotland - 1945 and ends up in the same place only 200 years earlier. She leaves a husband, but not much else. No children or other relatives are left behind. We don't learn what her poor husband does in her absence - it is somewhat callous treatment of him I thought.
Young, handsome Jamie Fraser comes along and they run around Scotland having many adventures trying to avoid the sadistic, gay, bad guy (an early ancestor of her present day husband). They also have to sort out and deal with evil secret plans of Jamie's clansmen. There is one scene where Jamie beats her because she disobeyed his orders and this is passed on as justice. It really creeped me out and I actually found myself crying out of humiliation for her. I didn't really recover after that. Their love story was pleasant but didn't affect me nearly as much as it seems to have affected others.
There are other books in the series. I may read them - I am curious about what happens to this pair, but I am not desperate to follow this thread.
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