Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them 20 years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband Roger and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the 20th century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s - among them disease, starvation and an impending war - was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father's identity - and thus his own - and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet...on his son's behalf and his own. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser's Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.

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Diana Gabaldon
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Listening Length	49 hours and 27 minutes
Author	Diana Gabaldon
Narrator	Davina Porter
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Audible.com.au Release Date	23 November 2021
Publisher	W. F. Howes Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B098FGZYZ6
Best Sellers Rank	124 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Historical Romance (Audible Books & Originals) 2 in Time Travel Romance (Books)

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Jane

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Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2021

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I have to reread and savour it but thanks Diana, the twists were surprising but I loved it. Now I will have to enjoy all those incredible details that I galloped through to find out what happened. I'm sat in a carpark eating a sandwich because I just had to keep reading after my dentist and couldn't wait the 40 minute drive home😜😍 I'm rather a sad case with no self control whatever when it comes to reading books, just one more page then I'll stop 😳😁🤣

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Sandra S

Great expectations - great disappointment

Reviewed in Australia on 10 December 2021

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Like so many readers of the Outlander series, I was anticipating quite the story in Go Tell The Bees That I've Gone. As usual, it's a whopping book, but if you removed all the description of every little thing and every minor character, it would be half the length. Very little substantive plot, just loose ends being tied up and not very imaginatively. Basically, it's a bit like the Gathering in Drums of Autumn - so much endless description of things of no interest and no value to the story. The plot didn't actually get going until Part Five of the book. Up to that point I was disinterested, even in Claire and Jamie! And honestly, the character of William should be integral at this point but the author seems to be playing him as a support character. His supposed romance is flat, flat, flat. There was none of the warmth and passion I've felt in reading other books in the series. Diana's penchant for description hit its heights in this book. One paragraph stated that Claire got out of bed, cleaned her teeth and went downstairs for breakfast - really? Part Five actually got the story moving along somewhere and ended in a way that does make me wonder what it going to happen in Book Ten. I'll buy that if I'm still alive, just to see the final story lines and find out about Jamie's ghost as Diana has promised. My honest opinion is that if this author was previously unknown and she presented this manuscript to a publisher, it would be on the slush pile. The story had very little to do with the title, other than the fact that Claire now keeps bees. Oh dear.

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TravelBug

Disappointed

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2021

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I love this series so much but I feel that Diana Gabaldon has given in to the temptation to include so many details in this book for the sake of making all her research worthwhile, at the cost of actually driving the narrative forward. So much exposition, rehashing of previous conversations and events in other books and too much tedious and clumsy explanation of Gaelic, wish she would trust her readers more. Disappointed that I waited over 6 years for this.

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These books are like my best friend and a pair of comfy slippers rolled into one❤️

Reviewed in Australia on 1 December 2021

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I was first introduced to the Outlander books in 2000. So for 21 years I have read and re-read them MANY times devouring the detail of this wonderful series. From the moment you pick up one of the books the story envelopes you and that is exactly how I found myself now that book 9 has been released. If I had to make a comparison between this book and the previous eight I would have to say that the detail was less complex in regard to her plants and medical uses and her surgical procedures. Sadly, we didn’t get as much Jamie and Claire time as there as now so many beloved characters and each of these are also deserving of lots of time, and this book introduced so many new ones. It also left so so many unanswered questions in terms of the multi plots going on throughout this book with differing characters. Previous books also had more danger and more nail biting moments but I think as the characters have aged they are taking more considered risk and doing less stupid things😂😂
I loved that Roger and Brianna have returned to the Ridge bringing a healthy Mandy. I also loved that Brianna finally got to meet her brother William, who could have a whole new series just on him.
All in all this book was wonderful. I read countless books on my Kindle but this series is the ONLY one I buy in hard copy. I have to read them in book form and savour the goodness of the authors work.
Apparently book 10 is the last one and will take years to finish, so I guess I just keep re-reading all 9 again!
I have watched the TV series however the books are much better, and the characters in my head are way better🥰🥰
Thank you Diana Gabaldon for giving me 21 years of reading joy👍👍

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Jo R

. Disappointing after such a long wait

Reviewed in Australia on 26 November 2021

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Very disappointing for a book that has been too many years in the making. A slow moving, meandering sort of story with many pages of "filler". The characters are wooden. Jumps somehow without meaning from time to time and place to place. Makes many allusions but does not seem to settle very much at all. Ok for the fans I guess, but very lacking. Is this book the one too many???

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FANTASTIC as all its predecessors!

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2021

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Only Why? Such an abrupt ending and how long do we have to wait for the next instalment? Hope it is not too long I am getting on in years and I DON,t want to miss out. It's bad enough waiting for the next TV Series.. Not that it can compare with the detail in the books. Please get inspired and deliver us very soon Diana. From an Ardent admirer of your work! I can, t get enough of it!

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Bec

I can't bear the thought of waiting until the next book

Reviewed in Australia on 17 January 2022

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As always Diana Gabaldon writes such vivid stories that keep you thinking long after you've put the book down.

I stayed up most of the night reading the last 10% of the book, because of course I couldn't stop, and discovering that this book ends where it did literally made me shout "No!" because it's going to feel like a life time before book 10 appears.

I believe I came across a few continuation errors between this book and the 8 that proceeded it, but none of which make any difference to the enjoyment of the story.

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Beryl

And so the story keeps going!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2022

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I have just finished Book 9 of the Outlander series. and as usual I feel up in the air and breathless to get to the end of one of these Big Enormous books. So much detailed research, is evident in the complexity of the stories. So many story threads to juggle in your mind. I always feel as if I am back with old friends whose stories I feel privileged to be able to share. The only downside is having to wait before another episode can be created but then I don't want to get to the end so it is always worth the wait.

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snowzz

Needed a stronger editor and more attention to Jamie and Claire’s story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2021

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No doubt diehard fans will have a great time with this book (and I did enjoy it) but I was very disappointed after such a long wait. There were so many separate plot lines in the book that it felt like there was no real arc or climax to Claire and Jamie’s story. I think it’s a thing that happens with authors when a series becomes a smash hit and the balance of power shifts away from the editors and lies totally with the writer – It happened with Harry Potter and the Game of Thrones books - Harry Potter books kept getting longer because they were stuffed with self indulgent detail that was not necessary for the story, and on GoT so many additional plots crept in and were given so much page time that they diluted the time and attention from the main storylines and characters. I do love the other characters Gabaldon has created, but constantly leaving Jamie and Claire to deal with the others at the same level of detail, and having to create endless coincidences (you can suspend disbelief once or twice, but too often becomes tiresome) to link the many sub plots to the main characters, distracts from enjoying Claire and Jamie’s story which didn’t progress much at all and was the weakest part of this book. Personally I think it would have been better for the author to stick with Lord John and Hal’s story in the separate series and give us a whole lot less of Bree and Roger apart from the aspects of their story that add to Jamie and Claire’s story. No wonder each book takes so long to write when the author is writing 3 novels worth of characters at the same time and trying to string them all together. I’ll be really disappointed if the series ends with a book like this.

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KDAli

Go Tell the Bees That the Magic Has Gone

Reviewed in the United States on 26 November 2021

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I'm a huge fan of this author and series, and have been waiting for this book for years. I have reread the previous ones dozens of times.

I'm surprised and quite disappointed by this entry.

I have come to love the wild round of kidnappings, shipwrecks, witchcraft trials, betrayals, gunshot wounds, and good intentions leading to life-threatening outcomes that swirl around Claire and Jaime.
Time travel, action, drama, snappy dialogue, rich historical detail, war, sardonic humor, a grand romance- these books have been packed with crazy, juicy goodness.

This book is a complete anomaly. It reads flat and feels phoned-in. Almost nothing happens in the first 2/3, which consists mainly of sentimental musings on daily life and child-rearing.
The narrative is annoyingly diffused as we follow 6-8 different groups wandering around on side quests and- well- musing about the nature of family and child-rearing.
The last 1/3 has a little action that feels forced and almost apologetic.

I read this series because I love Claire and Jaime, Brianna and Roger (well, Brianna anyways), Fergus, Young Ian, Jenny, Lord John, William, etc.
That has been quite enough people to follow in the past- but in this one, for some reason, Gabaldon dilutes the storyline even further by dragging in random minor characters from previous novels, who are dusted off and given waaaay too much space.
Why are they given almost as much "screen time" as Claire and Jaime? No one is reading this series because we care about what eventually happens to a character that was in a novel two books ago for 4 pages.

Adding insult to injury is that I get the sense we're actually supposed to care about some of the pretty annoying ones, such as Amaranth, Frances, Agnes, and Elspeth. They're not real villains, just unlikeable, poorly written, and not compelling.

I am extremely surprised this bland, tedious novel came from Diana Gabaldon's pen, but there does seem to be a pattern. Authors whose books become popular TV shows or movies take time off, advising or producing or whatever, and for some reason the next book is usually terrible or simply never appears.
J.K. Rowling, Kerry Fisher, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, et. al.
I'm glad they get the recognition and the coins, but it's a real pity for the fans. We deserved better after such a long wait.

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Kallie Harris

Asked when the story starts in previous review. Around chapter 120 for the curious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2021

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I wrote a previous review on this a few days ago asking when the story starts and I was then at chapter 47. Over 60 chapters later some traction was finally gained and things actually started to happen. This book is very, very well written and the attention to detail is incredible (a staple in any of this author’s works) but there’s an awful lot of it for the very small amount the overall story arcs of anyone or anything seems to be moved forward. Detailed descriptions of clothing or cooking or the comparatively primitive domestic set ups are not needed more than once or twice through the book, not every other chapter. The reader knows where we are and what we signed up for, please stop drilling it home every chance that arises. I did like that the characters are flawed and not perfect all the time and the language used very effectively demonstrates the attitudes and feel of the time period and thankfully does not bow to using the more politically correct and sensitive language of the current climate. It’s important to remember how things were and just why it was so wrong and must never be supported again and this is done remarkably well and with a deft and light touch throughout. I will get the next in series just because I have to know how it ends but I must admit to being ready to bid farewell to the characters and the story to be over with this book. I have both the audio and kindle version of the book but won’t be revisiting the world of Jamie & Claire for sometime as I’ve been left surprisingly uninterested in their journey through this particular book and need a break. I have absolutely no issue with the massive cast of characters at all, in fact I’ll say that they were needed to shore up the story as it unfolded because precious little of importance really seems to happen to Claire and Jamie. Again, very well written but a good three quarters of the book could have been sloughed away and had very little impact on the end result as it stands.

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Mrs M A Hoy

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2021

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I was greatly anticipating the ninth book in the series yet sadly found myself bored at times with the feeling I had read some of the plotlines in earlier books. The ending came as no surprise - I will not include a spoiler but it was obvious the two characters had to meet again one, predictably, needing the help of the other. Perhaps the final book will tie up all the loose ends and provide a decent resolution for these incredible characters. I just hope the author has enough interest to see the saga finished.

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LittleMo

Claire and Jamie's FAMILY story? ****SPOILERS****

Reviewed in the United States on 27 November 2021

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****Spoilers****
Jamie and Claire's family story....No. Saw much less of them, and more of inconsequential new characters.
I kept waiting for the ending from MOBY's cliffhanger to resolve itself with William and Jamie developing a relationship. I kept waiting.... and waiting, 900 pages. But we were left with another William Cliffhanger!
If it weren't so much time between books it wouldn't be so bad. But 7 years + how many ever it is till next book. So maybe 14 years to wait on double cliffhanger..........

Since I am 70 years old I could very well never read the last book. Guess her target audience is young people.
I loved the other books but sorry to say this one was a terrible letdown for me.

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