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There were some portions that felt like a blow to the stomach. On to the most important part of any review: did I *like* the book? I’m… I’m not sure. It feels like everything and nothing are happening at the same time.There is not nearly enough Lord John Grey.It might be helpful to keep a list handy to help you keep track. Is it a slog like the book that spent three whole days and six hundred pages covering a picnic? No, lots of stuff is happening across a wide variety of plot lines.

There are so many callbacks that are critical to the plot of this one that if you are not up to date or fully immersed in the story that you will only be lost.

Honestly, it’s been so long since the last installment, you should probably do a reread of the entire series before tackling this one.

These books are densely plotted with extensive character growth and world building. Can you start with this or any of the others and read them out of order? NO.

You’ve watched the show and are now interested in reading the books.

I’ve decided to make a bullet point list of things that you should know going in. I’ve got a good many thoughts about this novel – it is more than 950 pages long on my Kindle, after all – but I’m not sure how many of them I can share without this review becoming nothing but a minefield of spoilers. So, I have been reading and ruminating for approximately 48 hours as I sit down to write this review. It’s been more than seven years since the last installment. Two days ago, Diana Gabaldon released Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the long awaited ninth installment of her popular Outlander series.