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Book Review By Sandra
Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon

Claire Randall and her husband Frank are rekindling their marriage on a second honeymoon to Scotland, after the end of WWII. On a trip to a local stone circle, Claire finds herself transported back in time to the 18th century, where she meets gallant soldier and accused criminal Jamie Fraser, whom she is forced to wed. Now Claire has two husbands in two different centuries.

As Claire attempts to escape from the clutches of Jamie and return to the stone circle from which she came, she finds herself falling more and more in love with him. Claire finds that she cannot keep her knowledge about future events to herself either.


Plot & Themes
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot:
Time Travel Yes
Type of time travel - present to past

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing

Setting
European country: - England/UK
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - lot of descript of crop raising - lot of descript of animal care

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - rape/molest (yeech!)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 5-9 sex acts
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