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I was really enjoying this book, up until around a mid-way point when a certain scene took place.

I could perhaps rationalize Jamie punishing Claire with a belt as a learning moment for the both of them, if he hadn't in that same scene admitted to enjoying it. If he hated hurting someone he loved and that made him rethink his view of corporal punishment, that would've made for a good plot point (in my humble opinion), but instead she was the one learning that this sort of violence was apparently justified.

Also this happened the same day she almost got raped (and this was the closest she came to that actually happening, too)—you'd think that was punishment enough for her foolishness!

"But that's how it was back then—" Shh. I don't care. This is time travel romance fiction. Claire met

the Loch Ness monster like two chapters ago, ffs.

Days later, I'm still upset. I desperately wanted to like this book; maybe that's why I ignored some very questionable lines from both Claire and Jamie, up until I couldn't anymore. I loved Gabaldon's writing, even highlighted some unique turns of phrase she used. I really hope I can find something like this (but not

too like this, I don't want another heartbreak over a book having too much rape in it).