Ella and Jenna review “Outlander” a ’90s romance that surprised the both of us…in a good way

Red Wine Reads

This week, we read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Ella joins me on this episode to discuss:

• Why, as two people people who don’t normally read romance, ate this s**t up.
• The fact that our girl Diana can sure write a sex scene
• How all of the elements — romance, historical anecdotes, character development, setting — came together to create a lovely, entertaining story

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you singing a song of a lass that is gone.

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: Rhenish Wine, Whiskey
• TV SHOW - Reign, Game of Thrones
• BOOK - Kindred
• MOVIE - Brave, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Quick Summary: Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British 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 clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.

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