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A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

23 reviews

aheinicke27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This audiobook was a tough one to get through, and not just because it was 56 hours long. Claire really goes through it in this one. In some ways, it was interesting to see Claire go through such personal conflicts, such as

getting abducted, raped, beaten, severely ill, slandered, and blown up

because she is typically the steadfast hero of each story ready to care for everyone else. This also made it hard to read about all of her strife, because I’m so accustomed to her saving the day that I really worried about her (Jamie is great and all but like…who is supposed to

heal Claire when she catches a weird freak illness that almost kills her??

). I liked the resolution with Steven Bonnet, but hated that Bri and her family

had to return to the future

. This is the first book I’ve read beyond what I’ve watched in the show, so it was fun being surprised more often than previous books in the series. I’m hopeful that the next book won’t be quite so dark and depressing…but I think the revolutionary war is likely going to be in the next book so who knows? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Colonisation

Minor: Incest, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

evtoh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This one dragged at parts, and some sequences (graphic violence and sexual assault) were very painful to read. But, when outlander is good, it's GOOD. The characters are the core of the story and it's so interesting to see how their relationships grow and change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Pedophilia

sytaylor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Incest

piabrinkschulte's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Sexual harassment

bell4trixx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

carriehaley89's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Violence, and Kidnapping

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Genocide and Suicidal thoughts

clairereadstoomuch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

By now this has become such a comfort series for me that every time I pick one of these thick boys it's like receiving a warm hug. Which feels paradoxical to say, I know,  because the characters in this book are never comfortable. Not for long at least. 
This six book is set in 1772 and covers 4 years of adventures, or misadventures should I say, of our beloved Fraser-McKenzie family.
It is a LOT of time to cover and consequently, a LOT of stuff happens. A lot of it was interesting to read because it deals with the igniting of the American Revolution and the relationship between the English and the Indian tribes. Suffice it to say there's a lot of political and military talk which I don't usually mind but considering this was 1400-ish pages, there were times when it got a bit tedious.
As always, I really enjoy the focus on Claire's activity and practice and her explanations of plants and their different uses. This time we also have Brianna's engineering creation too which I didn't get in earnest but was fun to read anyway. 
Reading these books really puts the romantic out of time travel because reading about what poor Claire goes through just because she knows things. A woman? Knowing things? Not submissive to her husband? She must be a witch. 
It's heartbreaking to read and it made me dream less about being in a similar situation myself. Time traveling I mean.

The thing I like the most about Gabaldon's writing is that it's such an immersive experience that I feel like I'm getting a truthful and genuine insight into life in the 18th century. With all its gruesome reality and tough everyday activity and bigot mentality where reputation is everything and religion is the main explanation for everything.

Since, as I mentioned before, this book covers a long period of time, and they go through such hardships, at times it felt like too much. So many bad things happened to these people in such a short amount of time it feels unnecessary pain, you know what I mean? 

In the previous two books, I felt like Gabaldon had lost her way in the plot a bit. I didn't see a reason for some plotlines and certainly for the page number. This one felt a lot more balanced in my opinion.
It's true that you could stop reading after "Voyager" and you would be fine but the truth is that I've grown so attached to these characters that I like the fact that my time with them is prolonged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Hate crime, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and War

sschmidt1300's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

anelson6225's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder