I was really disappointed with this whole section of the saga. I know Jamie and Claire are a very sensuous, sexy couple but up until this point she was a lady and he a gentleman. It just didn't ring true to me that Jamie would take Claire bordello crawling on her very first night back after a 20 year separation. Then she just couldn't keep a shift on. No sooner would DG get a robe or shift on Claire, someone would rip it off and she'd be running around in a towel. I didn't like that Jamie had become such an outlaw too. Again, these were nice people everywhere else. Claire is a classy dame and Jamie is good man. The main plot of these books is so good and the books themselves are well written. Diana can just carry me along with her day to day trivia and her research is spot on. I'm one who is really enjoying TFC. But sometimes she just goes a little over the top. I just pretend these scenes hadn't happened. Like that dream year in the TV soap Dallas.

I felt a little disappointed in Jamie for taking her to a brothel, but at that same time, it clearly shows how much he has changed over the 20 years. In OL, he was completely disturbed by Claire suggested (pre-marriage) that he could sleep on the floor in her room, and fast-forward here and he's taken her to a kittle-hoosie! I think this chapter clearly illustrates that they are strangers once again, and Claire has to have a lot of faith that she's made the right decision. It's unrealistic to think that Claire could waltz back into his life, and he'd be the same naive, innocent man. I still think he is a good, honorable person, but this chapter really shows the dark edges of his past, and it's a bit of foreshadowing too, about what Claire has to accept if she wants to be in his life. I think they bring out the good parts of each other, and without Claire, Jamie has lost his sense of direction.