With almost no time travel, the sixth book spends a lot of time just telling us about life at Fraser's Ridge.
Warning: Spoilers ahead
Some of that is super interesting, like how Claire is figuring out how to be an effective doctor with the tools she has at her disposal in the 1770s. At other times, it gets a little boring simply hearing about the trials and tribulations of frontier life. And this is a looooong book — the longest one in the series. One thing that could easily have been cut is Claire getting kidnapped by some outlaws and subsequently raped.
But the ramp-up to the Revolutionary War is great, especially how Jamie comes to be a part of the rebellion. And there is a tantalizing cliffhanger when the Mackenzies travel back to the future to have baby Mandy's heart murmur fixed.
