Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon

This is book 2 in the Lord John series.  It follows the timeline of the previous book and gives us more insight to Lord John Grey.  We get to see his inner torment to be true to himself and his family without revealing his homosexuality to the world.

Again, I continue to enjoy these books.  It looks like there are a couple of Lord John books that are not part of this series but were published before the next book in the series.  I think I will go with publication dates and read them in that order and see where it gets me.

A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows

A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows: An Outlander Novella by Diana Gabaldon

This is a novella that is a companion to the Outlander series.  It follows An Echo of the Bone.  I am going to have a hard time waiting for the next book in this series to be published.

This book answers the question of what happened to Roger MacKenzie's parents during World War II causing him to become orphaned.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was a great teaser of what is to come in the series as well as answering a question that has been hanging out there a bit.

Lord John and the Private Matter

Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

This is Book 1 in Gabaldon's Lord John series.  This started out as a off-shoot novella alongside the Outlander series.  The novella became a novel and then it became a series in it's own right.

It isn't quite as engaging as the Outlander series but I wish that I had read this book in it's proper place with the Outlander series.  It's weird to go back in time, so to speak, and try to remember what was going on in the Outlander books at the time of this book.

I enjoyed the historical information about the LGTB community at the time and I will keep reading these books and see where they take me.