The Outlander, By Gil Adamson

A young woman, Mary (a.k.a. the Widow) is on the run from her brothers-in-law for murdering her husband. The story is flashback-happy and ignores logic, but the author’s writing style and her descriptions of the landscape the Widow trudges through are great. Certain parts of the story are good, but for the most part you’re bogged down in the Widow’s journey, which gets old pretty quick. The best character in the whole damned thing doesn’t even show up until close to the end: a dwarf whose name I can no longer remember because I read the book weeks ago and kept putting this off. I feel like I said everything I could about this book in book club, so….uh….bye.