Title: Drums of Autumn       

Author: Diana Gabaldon   

Genre: Historical Fiction     

Publisher: Delta     

Format: Paperback 

Pages: 880

Rating: 4/5 stars 

*Warning: Mature content. Parents please be advised*

Synopsis (Goodreads):

In this breathtaking novel—rich in history and adventure—The New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Diana Gabaldon has created a work of sheer passion and brilliance…. 

It began at an ancient Scottish stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Dr. 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 a 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 the American colonies. 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 circle of stones 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…. 

Review:

I finally read the next book in this series! I haven’t watched the fourth season of the tv show yet because I wanted to read the book first, and I’m pretty sure I’ve had this book on my shelf for about 2 years now! But I finally conquered it during the @24in48 readathon!

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Alright, so the book picks up right where the third book ends! Jaime and Claire are in the colonies and they are figuring out how to get Ian back to Scotland and how they should move on with their lives. Brianna is back in her current time also trying to move on with her life! A bunch of stuff happens in this book but I think that’s all I’m going to say for plot so I don’t give anything away.

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I will say that I felt like this book dragged on a bit more than the first three. I feel like at this point I’ve a good idea of Jamie and Claire’s relationship, that some of the descriptions seemed a bit redundant to me, and that they didn’t change too much in this book. Which is fine but it made the descriptions of them seem too much! I was like bring the action!! Which there definitely was, and I feel like I’m invested in these characters so much that I will always love reading about them, but that tidbit made this a four star read instead of a five star! Who else has carried on with this series? Thoughts? 

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This was also my prompt for “book that’s been on my TBR for a long time” for my #hookedtobookssummerreadingchallenge check out my highlight on Instagram to see the prompts! 

Happy reading!