Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

                                                           

 Title: Drums of Autumn

Author: Diana Gabaldon
Genre: Fiction, SciFi, Historical, Fantasy

Other books I've read by this author: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager

Synopsis: It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. 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 is risking 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... back cover

My Thoughts

I'm finishing up Drums of Autumn as we arrive into the first days of fall here and it is the most autumnal weather we have had in years. 

Book 4 of the Outlander series, Drums of Autumn is where there start to be some more distinguishing differences between the tv series and the book. The first half of the book is very different in terms of the small details. 

SPOILER ALERT: Overall, the large things still happen, the Frasers end up in the American Colonies, meet Jocasta, gain Fraser's Ridge, and get robbed by Stephen Bonnett after saving him. Sadly, there is absolutely no mention or reunion with Murtagh in the colonies. Fergus leaves Marsali behind to have the baby in Jamaica and there is much less mention of their family in this book. There is a brief mention of the Regulators but nothing so involved as we see in the show. The second half, after Brianna and Roger travel through the stones, is much more in line with what happens in season 4, with a few small changes in the minor details. END SPOILERS.

The middle is a little be slow, but the rest is just as engaging as the others in the series. I cannot wait to continue with this series! 
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