A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
Diana Gabaldon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
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A breath of snow and Ashes
- this one is very long, and especially in the latter half feels very disjointed, with longer time breaks to leap forward to the next drama / event worth showing-- I had thought Bree taught in the past?
- it was cool to see how much of those events I remembered, was surprising actually how much I did-- at least the gist, even if no details or order of operations
- I don't have much to say, other than I felt like Brianna and Roger and kids leaving was not as emotional as I would have liked? It felt rather abrupt, and I guess I would have liked some prep/travel scenes and emotional moments
- also, the whole 'Tom Christie loves Claire' thing was weird and was not viable to me-- why? They had hardly ever been on page together?
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