A Breath of Snow and Ashes | A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander)

A Breath of Snow and Ashes | A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) | Diana Gabaldon

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	• A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) Diana Gabaldon Dell, 2008 - 1456 pages average customer review:based on 349 reviews view larger image
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes

This is the further adventures of Jamie and Claire and their families. Diana Gabaldon's attention to the details of life in Colonial America is amazing. The story unfolds just like watching a movie.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Diana Gabaldon's furtile imagination and detailed research has produced another riveting novel. Jamie, Claire and their clan continue their life's adventure in the Colonies. As I read with rapt attention, at one point I exclaimed, "Oh my God", out loud as another unexpected twist appeared on the page. Fortunately, I was alone and there was no one around to think I was wierd. There's only one more book left and I will be sorry to say goodbye to these remarkable characters. I have the movie cast in my mind.

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A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Another lengthy installment by Gabaldon! While I enjoyed this book I didn't think it near up to standard as a few of her past books. The plot was there, the characters also, but some of it rang as somewhat unbelievable to me. I do give her great praise for her title though. "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" just sounds very poetic.

To recap (and possibly a spoiler for those who haven't read the series), Claire, a nurse, had traveled back in time from the 1940's to Scotland in the 1700's. There she meets Jamie and through a series of misadventure, becomes married and then falls in love with him. Pregnant with his child, she comes back to the future when a war approaches that she believes kills Jamie. 20 years later she finds that he lives and returns to the past to find him. Together they head to America where they are joined by their daughter and her betrothed. They have to cope with all the impending dangers of the War for Independence and their own problems as well.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes has many things that happen in it. So much that I can't go into near the detail the book deserves without writing a book myself. Suffice to say that there is numerous kidnappings, rape, pregnancies and the betrayal of Claire by someone she holds very dear. In addition to this, a bit of background and some action is done by Jamie in preparation for the upcoming war. There are some light hearted moments however. Bree develops several "new" inventions to make life easier, they celebrate with friends, and in general stay alive in harsh times.

My complaints on this book being unbelievable at times are just a few. One is the subject of rape. It seems that Gabaldon can't just leave her characters alone in this regard and nearly every character has experienced it now. I know times were rough but I have trouble believing that almost every woman had been raped in those days. Another would be some of Bree's inventions. While she is a smart resourceful person who studied to be an engineer, its seems strange that she should know how to create so many things. The only explanation I have is she looked up how to do these things before traveling back in time, but no mention of that course of action was ever in the books.

Gabladon's writing style is very descriptive. It is usually clear and easy to follow, however, I noticed with this novel that there were some parts that confused me. We'd be at one scene and then all of a sudden the next chapter its weeks? months? later and we are in the middle of some action without knowing how we got there. Eventually further on it would explain what was going on, but it was disorienting at first. The book is mostly from Claire's point of view but it does have some scenes in the third person when she is not present.

Overall I did enjoy this book. It wasn't as good as some of the others but still held my attention overall. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Copyright 2005
980 pages

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Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon?s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.

Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon?s New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over ? and sold more than twelve million books. Now, 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

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