Returning Strands
Fergus and Marsali returning to town to run a print shop is wonderful, and I absolutely love that first edition. I thought Gabaldon was sort of dragging out Fergus's storyline, teasing without satisfying. I do like the whole Fergus story - like Marsali, "I want him." heheheh or at least, more about him. It displeased me to see him spiraling down, I suppose it is realistic enough. Kinda disturbing how so many of these folk simply cannot survive without Jamie's patronage... Of course, it's also a nice follow-up on the lifelong price a man must pay for the split second heroism of a boy who acts out of hero worship, only to find himself facing life-changing consequences. Well, perhaps the lad will finally be able to stand on his own, now that he's no longer simply an extension of Jamie's will... We'll see...
About time Ian got some face time as well. I cannot get past the thought that his first suckling was Jamie's finger, not his own mother's teat. There seems to be something there that explains so much about how he has turned out. Then again, the effects of his yearlong stay under the sway of Geillis Duncan Abernathy also explains much, such as his sense of displacement and discomfort in his own skin.
I do wonder whether or not the woolly mammoth was another time traveler who just didn't do well in the environment on the other side of the passage. I mean, how else did those bones and tusks survive the eons? They clearly weren't fossilized...
Jemmy's got a birthmark to match his Da's. No blood test required. Yay!
About time Ian got some face time as well. I cannot get past the thought that his first suckling was Jamie's finger, not his own mother's teat. There seems to be something there that explains so much about how he has turned out. Then again, the effects of his yearlong stay under the sway of Geillis Duncan Abernathy also explains much, such as his sense of displacement and discomfort in his own skin.
I do wonder whether or not the woolly mammoth was another time traveler who just didn't do well in the environment on the other side of the passage. I mean, how else did those bones and tusks survive the eons? They clearly weren't fossilized...
Jemmy's got a birthmark to match his Da's. No blood test required. Yay!