A review by amies808
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

3.0

I think I need to just not read the first half of these from now on since there seems to be no editor involved whatsoever with these books. At this point I’m fairly tired of Claire and Jamie, particularly with Jamie and how perfect he is - he is a soldier, a printer, a (treasonous) writer, a leader, he can (spoiler alert... although of COURSE this would happen) fight a bear with his bare hands, he even knows how to knit! I get it: he’s great. There were some weird points in this book in particular that didn’t track with me, like Claire was raised by an archaeologist and also had a medical background but doesn’t know Latin?? She doesn’t get bored living in the wilderness?? (and then it turns out that she’s been attending to folks in the neighboring villages and such and we’ve just been stuck w only her and Jamie instead of meeting more personalities). I did like seeing Brianna and Roger so much more involved and probably would’ve just liked this to be told from one of their views; forget the weird narrator perspective change every five chapters!

I look forward to the show but I am glad to be done with this one!