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How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time – across the grave itself.
It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for her became legend - a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Two decades later, Claire travelled back again to reunite with Jamie, this time in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in her own time - their daughter Brianna.
Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she risks her own future to try to change history - and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past - or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...
Genre: historical romance/time travel
Publication date: September 2011 (for the current Kindle version)
Mature content: yes
Review: Drums of Autumn is just as epic as the other books in the Outlander series but, to be honest, it was the hardest one for me to finish so far. Actually, it was the only book that was hard for me to finish so far.
I did like the side story of Brianna and Roger, but overall I felt the plot was moving very slowly and with a lot of new characters added in - I actually had to stop reading for a while, switch to other books, and then finally come back to Drums of Autumn to finish it.
It's not the writing, and it's not the plot itself. Those as just as good as before. It's more likely the fact that both Jamie and Claire have come so far from where they began that sometimes I have trouble recognizing them. I miss the way they were in the first two books - especially Jamie, since I never really cared for Claire all that much. But Jamie is a highlander through and through, and somehow being so far from Scotland, living a totally different life, sort of dims his brightness a bit.
Drums of Autumn is book 4 in the Outlander series and cannot/should not be read as a stand alone. You need to read (and pay attention to) the previous books.
You can read my reviews of the previous Outlander books by clicking on the links below:
Happy readings,
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