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Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

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isabellehendo's review against another edition

4.0

listening to this series is the best recommendation i can give. i love this story and these characters, but it is long and exhausting when you aren’t listening to it (in my opinion). it’s still wonderful but it’s much more enjoyable when you can listen while doing other things.

i love clare and jamie, but liked the new relationship dynamic added into the mix.

anabfleal's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing slow-paced

4.0

crialpaca's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious relaxing tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

This felt so incredibly slow after Voyager, but there were definitely some key points in here that will be important later on. I appreciated some of the homestead stakes but yeah... this one was tough to get through.

skyhightbr's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

cyndireadsbooks's review against another edition

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3.0

I’ve been rereading each novel prior to that season of the tv show. I’ve forgotten how tedious I found this one. When I read it the first time, I got stuck in the middle and put it down for a solid year. I don’t really love this one. Jamie becomes an insufferable a-hole for a large portion of the book, the Brianna and Roger stuff falls too close to the romance novel for my tastes here. It’s also got a lot more of the coinky-dinky and manufactured drama than the earlier books.

I thought about this review overnight and here’s what it boils down to. Pretty much the FIRST conversation Claire has with Jamie about Roger (in the LAST book) should have gone something like this...

C: So, Bree has this sort of kind of maybe boyfriend. He was instrumental in my finding my way back to you.
J: Aye, go on...
C: OMG you will never guess the single biggest fact about him that would make him 100% relevant to you. No exaggeration!

Thus, in one clearly relevant sentence in book four, saving us from 800 pages of “Big Misunderstanding” bs. That’s my beef with this book in a nutshell. It’s completely implausible that Jamie wouldn’t already know Roger is a Mackenzie.