Finding Fraser by K.C. Dyer

Amy  

women's fiction

Amy's Review
(audiobook)

In Finding Fraser by K.C. Dyer, Emma is not a smart woman. She has no life plan. She gets fired from her job, sells all of her possessions in Chicago, and decides to take off to Scotland to find her very own Jamie Fraser. (He’s the lead male character in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon and he happens to be my literary boyfriend, as he is for most women who have read the novels.) So, only because I love Jamie and can understand why a woman would go searching for her own version, I decided to read a book that I would normally never read based on the story premise. I thought it might be funny.

Nope. It was a fairly flat novel. Emma blunders her way through her travels, continually making mostly unwise decisions. She predictably gets taken advantage of and walked all over because she has no self-concern and no clue. But, the worst part of the story by far was when she pathetically insisted on trying to stay attached to the wrong guy. And this went on FOREVER. I mean, I had thought she was stupid before, but I lost all respect for her at that point and she was never able to redeem herself in my eyes. And, when she ends up with the guy who the reader knows she will end up with (no mystery here), it does nothing to improve my opinion of this character or her story. I am left wondering why the guy likes her. What could possibly attract someone of his caliber to someone like her with no impressive skills or brain? It’s certainly not her writing skills, which the author tries to make us believe are so evident from her travel blog.

Fortunately, I was able to smirk at several inconspicuous references to the Outlander novels—other than the obvious ones which were pointed out to be Outlander references during the novel. Those sneaky “easter eggs” were the best thing about the novel. But, they were not enough to make me recommend this novel to anyone.

I listened to the audiobook and give the narrator a C-. I didn’t love the tone of her voice and her accents weren’t great (although, better than I could do myself, admittedly).