So after some making up, lots more ‘mmmphmmm’, and a hand-fast marriage–Brianna and Roger are ‘married-ish’ and in love when all of a sudden they Roger tells her he saw the death notice! After fighting and various hurt feelings they are separated, then….all of a sudden Bree realizes she’s pregnant….but maybe not by Roger….mmmmphm? And the story develops from there….įor a more detailed and slightly more serious summary check out what Shelfari has to say about DOA:ĭrums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series, written by Diana Gabaldon. Brianna and Roger are kind of on again/off again but basically love each other and are soul mates until Roger does the unthinkable–he doesn’t tell Bree about a newspaper notice he sees about Jamie and Claire’s death by fire! He is worried that Bree will try to go through the stones and find her mother and father and likely be lost to him forever so he decides to lie and not tell her but all the time he knows it’s not if but rather when he will be found out by Bree….and he is!īrianna finds the clipping and decides go back and find her mother and then–SURPRISE–Roger can time travel too so he follows her. There is also a new set of lovers in the series though….Roger and Brianna are now a ‘thing’ which adds a fun layer to the epic novel.

Claire is busy delivering babies and making house calls on those to sick to travel and of course there is lots of ‘mmmphmm’ happening all over the Carolina backwoods territory between Claire and Jamie.

Jamie and Ian are working to build a house, farm, and on-site clinic for Claire. So like the others in the series, Drums of Autumn (DOA) picks up right where the previous book Voyager left off with Claire and Jamie reuniting and making a safe landing in the Colonies after escaping the West Indies.īoth Jamie and Claire begin to settle down and fall right into a more or less a ‘domestic routine’. Let’s get right in to the good stuff and talk about this amazing book! I guess thats what being a book-a-holic is all about though and I should just go with it.Īs I have mentioned before in my other posts, if you have not read the books up until this point, read ahead at your own risk….this review might contain spoilers. When I started the Outlander Series Reading Challenge I had no idea I would be flying through these books like no other….well I suspected but was not entirely convinced. I just finished the fourth book in the Outlander Series: Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon.

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