Outlander by Diana Gabauldon- More Time Travel Drama and less Bodice Ripping

I have finally gotten into Outlander.  I’m currently about three quarters of the way through the book and it is pretty good.  There is not a great deal of physics or even fantasy in regards to the time travel conundrum aspects of the book, but there is definitely a lot of twisted drama around the people caught in the conundrum.

The people in the book bemoan their twisted fate in ways that Heinlein characters dealt with similar problems.  The plot moves along rather slowly, but the dialogue is interesting enough to keep the book moving like a soap opera that grabs you by the shirt and twists you up into it until you feel like you are woven into the fabric of the story yourself.

Halfway through the book, the book does dive into marital sex in a way that is almost as exhausting as it can be to actually lose your virginity, get married and run wild on your honey moon while simultaneously attempting to get pregnant multiple times.  The sex discussions are interesting and almost hot, but they are over done in a repetitious way that takes a way from the book a bit.

Now, I write this from the perspective of a male reading a book that was described to me as a ‘bodice ripper’.  I suppose that the book might possibly appeal more to a female reader, but then again maybe the book is just what it is. 

Its possible that the book is just a little diluted with soap opera like drama, but not so much that IQair could clear things up.