Shamelessly chiming in to say that I read the first book in the Outlander series a few years ago and then watched the first season of the tv show, to try and get a fair opinion... and nope. There's a lot of unnecessary violence (a lot of it sexual and suspiciously looking like it's just there for shock value) and I don't think it's super well written or anything, and also I side-eye Gabaldon a lot for being against fanfiction when the series was basically born because of it!

(Also: I read a little while ago that she considers The Jacobite trilogy as an inspiration... and bah, all of the fanfiction you guys have written is 1000000000 times better than "Outlander". I have spoken!)