Outlander is a historical romance novel with a twist: time travel. It's the first book in a series of novels... that I am not yet prepared to discuss because I haven't read that far. :P

From Goodreads:

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

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I personally LOVED this book. I'm not a frequent reader, not because I dislike reading, but because my taste in books is very specific and my ADD makes it difficult to read a book I have minimal interest in, so it was one of those rare occasions where I just devoured the content. I watched the first season of the TV show on STARZ, so admittedly it was easy to fly through it with the images already embedded in my mind, but I was surprised to see that they, for the most part, stayed true to the source material.

During my reading, I had one question running through my mind that I still haven't figured out:

1. Do you think you could survive in the 18th century like Claire? Or would the comforts of life in the 2000's make it even more difficult for us than it was for her?

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This is a discussion thread for people who have read or are reading the book in question. With that in mind, there are likely to be spoilers throughout. However, in the event of major twists or “how it ends”, please wrap content in spoiler tags.

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