Drums of Autumn

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Summary: Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series has changed my life!
Review: I don't have much to compare Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums in Autumn to because at the young age of 46 I have not been a reader. At the prompting of a dear friend I read Outlander. I was so intrigued with the story that I had to carry on and at the conclusion of Drums of Autumn could only wait for more. I say a change in my life because since picking up Outlander late in October I have read not only the 3 companion books, but 2 Dean Koontz, a Sidney Sheldon, started and put down 2 Stephen King (sorry Stephen, read a non-fiction by someone Anderson called The Four O'clock Murders, and am enjoying an Elizabeth George book right now. I think the key thing here is that without Gabaldon's Outlander I would not be reading today. What more can I say! Read them all!

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Summary: For anyone, man and woman, this is heart-stopping!
Review: It all started when my wife got it as a gift, and I being stubborn, was not interested in a romance. She said it's more than that. BOY WAS SHE RIGHT!! Sometimes all I can think about are these books and how Ms. Gabaldon has linked EVERYTHING together. I've just re-read book four and have noticed something that all our friends or people in this review have not noticed. Not to give it away, but look at the very last line in 'Drums" and keep that in mind when you read the series again. By the way, you all think that Claire won't go back to her time....I think there is the chance. Remember her what she found, It's her legacy, her "tica ba". For you readers who think the tension is gone, think on that one. These stories have me gripped. Anything can happen and if you think everything is going to be good remember what happen to Ian.. I do. It got me pretty choked up. I for one find it hard to imagine the possibility that I may never see my family again. And so I'm on pins and needles waiting for "The Fiery Cross". I have a feeling that Guellie started something that has not yet ran it's full course. (I love how the author throws her in once and a while). So Jamie and Claire are yet to survive the fire cause I really want them to. After knowing what Frank did (read the book) anything can happen. Brianna and Roger (whom I feel for Roger cause he underwent a LOT!!) are bringing in a "new?" McKenzie clan .... .....things will come full circle. I can't wait. Great, great, great, great, great excellent writing and SO DARN REAL!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: So...what happens next?!
Review: Wow...after coming to the end of Drums of Autumn, all I could think was, "There's got to be more!" Glad to hear that The Fiery Cross will be coming out, even if we have to wait awhile. The fourth book in the series is more thought-provoking than the other three, but it still makes for a really good time! I loved the beginning romance between Brianna and Roger - hopefully this will be just as passionate and exciting as Jamie and Claire's. This book is really more about the Fraser family and how mothers, fathers, and their children relate to eachother. There's still enough adventure and romance to satisfy, though. These books have quickly joined the ranks of my all-time favorites, and I believe they will someday become classics of historical fiction. I'm only left to wonder...what will happen to Jamie and Claire? Will they survive, and how will the newspaper article be explained? I guess we'll have to wait for the next book. It will be interesting to see what Diana Gabaldon does with the Frasers' role in the American Revolution. Can't wait to find out!

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Summary: Where's the next one?
Review: My mother and I exchange books, and she had given me "DRUMS" to read. Not knowing, or looking, that this was a series of books, I read the book in a weekend, I could not put it down! The characters are so spell-binding! Then to find out that there are books that precede, I was at the library before I finished "DRUMS"! But I couldn't stop reading the fourth book, and have now read & re-read all of the books. I only wish my husband was more like Jamie Fraser! Ah, to have lived in that time, when men were men and women were women! And life was what you made of it, it's makes me think that we all need to be a little like Jamie & Claire. Diana, if you read this, please we are all waiting patiently for FIERY CROSS, but I for one need another book to read! Please hurry!

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Summary: Next book, pleeeeeeeze.
Review: I tended to skip a line here or there, not my favorite in the series, but if it gets me to the next book, I was glad to travel through it with Jamie and Clair. Each person I have turned onto these books has come back to me with a look on their face that I recognize immediately. It says get me the next book and make it quick. I just finished the fourth re-read of the first three books and am now half way through Drums again. I think Brianna and Roger are going to run a close second to the Clair and Jamie love affair, but there has to be some way Clair and Jamie die and then get reincarnated and start all over again. I'm young, I will never get enough. Keep up the good work Diana.

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Summary: A book for all time!!
Review: Gabaldon has done it once again! Drums of Autumn continues the adventures and love story of Claire and Jamie to new heights and adds daughter, Brianna and her romance with Roger, to the mix of a book for all time. In her Outlander series, she has demonstrated a knowledge of Scottish, West Indies, and Colonial American history that is pure entertainment. If anyone can read the Drums of Autumn, or any of the previous books of this series, without putting it down they have more will power than I. I am hopefully waiting for another in this series as I cannot wait to see what will happen next!!

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Summary: Special...
Review: I have read and reread all of the Outlander series... Diana Gabaldon is one of the best authors I have ever read and her books speak to our hearts. Although I've read the series many times I still laugh and cry every time! Jamie is my altime favorite character... Don't miss the chance to get to know him - and the other "people"- they seem real when you read the book - in the book!

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Summary: Jamie and Claire are wonderful!
Review: Diana Gabaldon has done a wonderful job in bringing Jamie and Claire to life. I don't want their lives to end. However, Drums of Autumn was more difficult to get through. I found the book to be too descriptive. Still, I can't wait for more! Please don't let "The Fiery Cross" be the end Jamie and Claire.

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Summary: I loved the entire series. It held me spell bound
Review: This entire series is a wonderful way to learn about the early history of Scotland, while following very believable characters. All four of these books were page turners. The plot was so intriguing.

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Summary: More than just another romance novel...
Review: Since first meeting Jamie and Claire in Outlander, they have become my favorite hero & heroine of all time. I have laughed and cried with them. In this novel (and I am more than happy to learn another will be coming) they find a new life in colonial America, a scant ten years before the Revolution happens. Claire and Jamie are challenged not only by the vast wilderness of what will become America, but by the twenty year seperation they have finally overcome. There are still many things in their respective pasts to be faced and triumphed over. But love for each other and for family can sustain them through anything. It was wonderful to spend time with the Frasers of Lallybroch once again and I look forward to meeting them down the road! I highly reccomend this (and the first 3 books) to any one with an interst in romance, history, Scotland or early America!!