There is no doubt that Drums of Autumn was intriguing and enjoyable, but the first half of the book moved at a relatively slow pace.
I just love Jamie and Claire so much, I think anything they do would be interesting to me. Having the love and romance aspect of the story toned down a bit was somewhat disappointing but by no means a deal-breaker. There are implications of intimacy written in veiled terms or with the door being shut before any juicy details are revealed, but there were only two moderately descriptive love scenes that I recall, one for Jamie and Claire and one for Roger and Brianna. When they were originally released, the first three books of the series were marketed as romance, but Drums of Autumn seems to be something of a turning point, in that it decidedly had more of the flavor of historical fiction with a romantic element. I don't think I'll ever tire of spending time with soul mates, Jamie and Claire and their collection of family and friends, although I have to admit that the romance in this book seemed more subdued than in the earlier stories. In Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon has once again created another enjoyable installment in the Outlander saga. When the truth finally surfaces, Jamie and Claire must risk their lives to bring back the man their daughter loves. When Roger comes back for Bree, a terrible misunderstanding leads Jamie to do something rash in an effort to protect his daughter. When Roger realizes what Brianna has done, he follows her, but no sooner do they reunite than a heated argument separates them again. There is a part of her that feels incomplete without having known the man who fathered her, so when she finds a newspaper account of her parents' deaths in a fire, her desire to know Jamie Fraser, as well as save her parents' lives, compels her to travel back in time through the stones like her mother did. In the 20th century, Brianna has been building a relationship with Scottish historian, Roger Wakefield Mackenzie, but has many unanswered questions and concerns that make it difficult for her to really get close to him. They manage to carve out a nice life for themselves and are finally enjoying some normalcy, but all that changes when their daughter, Brianna, shows up.
Instead of staying on with Jocasta, they head for the mountains of North Carolina where they start a homestead and begin gathering together many of the men with whom Jamie had been imprisoned after the Rising. Once there, Jocasta wishes to make Jamie her heir and have him run her affairs, but that doesn't seem like the right thing to do for either Jamie or Claire. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog HopĪfter being shipwrecked on the Georgian coast of America, Jamie and Claire Fraser slowly make their way toward North Carolina and the plantation owned by Jamie's Aunt Jocasta.Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch.
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