On the one hand, I'm half curious how the story goes, what happens, and how. But I'm not curious enough to read the rest of the trilogy. Maybe I'd have enjoyed it when I was younger. Much younger. Hard to say.

I'll probably try a different NR story another time, to see if it's just this one that irks me in so many ways.

Gabaldon this is not.

Still I can see the potential for popular appeal... Handsome males, lovely females, fast cars, splendid horses, cute dialogue/dialect, pretty magic, fast moving story, sappy romance/sex, fast reading, nothing graphic.