They currently live in Wales and have three wonderful grown-up children and a beautiful daughter-in-law. The reference to these characters is very brief and matter-of-fact, and it doesn't have any bearing on the rest of the story. Donati’s acknowledgements come before the story, in which she showers thanks upon Gabaldon for helping her with it. Obvious borrowing is really distracting, from the Gabaldon series (the hanging scene in a later book in the series and names from Cooper and Gabaldon) and details that are interesting but don't add to the story (like including Burns as exciseman and poet but not AT ALL necessary to the plot) are distracting.

Most of the main characters had long but defined story arcs that wove a consistent thread through the series, as several of the books focused on characters from different generations. On the surface, Donati's writing seems as though it could be comparable to Gabaldon's, but, in actuality, it didn't even come close for me. The matriarch of the family has left Pensacola for New Orleans and taken the child she now claims as her great-grandson with her.

Thank you for supporting my small business and allowing me to continue providing you a reliable resource for clean book ratings. But it’s Hannah herself who must risk everything once more—this time to save Daniel, who’s been taken prisoner by the British.

I read this as an unabridged audiobook and it seemed like tape one consisted of author thank you's and an unending listing of family trees involved in her story and I assumed I'd be in way over my head with this one. This novel reads like really, really bad fan fiction, one that impoverishes rather than enriches the originals. The down side is that this is 2 credit/book and The Outlook series is only 1 credit/book( an excellent series in the same style.The many subplots are skillfully interwoven, and the author's sheer stamina commands respect; but the novel is complicated, not complex, overstuffed with familiar, featherweight themes. Financially strapped, Judge Middleton has plans for his daughter - betrothal to local doctor Richard Todd. Jean-Benoit Savard, the great-grandson of French settlers, slaves, and Choctaw and Seminole Indians, is the one man who knows the city well enough to engineer the miracle that will reunite the Bonners and send them home to Lake in the Clouds.

A gifted healer, this striking young woman of two worlds finds herself in peril when a dangerously ill runaway slave is discovered near the family home and Hannah insists on nursing the outlaw. This is Diana Gabaldon's longtime online hangout, and I have been Section Leader (moderator) of the Diana Gabaldon section on the forum since 2008. Elizabeth Middleton from the beginning struck me as far too modern in her sensibilities--she doesn't seem to care about class or race and wants to keep her independence and remain unmarried. Word has reached them that Nathaniel’s father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place.And she hunkers down next to him and listens to his chest and then she forces something down his gullet, and she bundles him up. I’m going to attempt to summarise each of the blurbs for the rest of this article so that you can get a feel for what the series is about.

I'm currently reading the fourth book "Fire Along the Sky" and on page 69 it says "Over the years three women had borne him eleven children, and five of those survived" - him being Nathaniel. The book goes beyond an analysis of sin by opening the path from sin to redemption, from unhappiness to joy, finally laying out a path from the despair of sin to the joy of spiritual renewal and freedom.

If you've read INTO THE WILDERNESS or any of Sara Donati's other books, feel free to post your reactions here (whether positive or negative). The romance between them flows well, to my taste, they do have good chemistry, and the intimate scenes, of which there are a fair number, are not so explicit, and the most one can say is that some of them take place in . Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage…this time all the way across the ocean to the heart of Scotland, where a wealthy earl claims kinship with Nathaniel’s father, Hawkeye. Many might love the film's version best as it gives them the "happy ending" they would've wanted, but for me it's my major objection to the film, as it hurts the characterisation of Uncas and Major Heyward in the novel, not to mention completely changes the motives and characterisation of Hawkeye and Cora and Alice. Her determination places both her family and her heart in jeopardy, for a bounty hunter is afoot–and he is none other than Hannah’s childhood friend and first love.