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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6)
by
Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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 Timesbestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over -- and sold more than t...more
Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's New York Timesbestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over -- and sold more than t...more
Mass Market Paperback, UK, 1410 pages
Published
September 7th 2006
by Arrow
(first published September 27th 2005)
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The paperback edition of what is the sixth book in the Outlander series is over 1500 pages long and sorry to say, I did not hang on every word. Who could? There's so damn many of them! Talk about bloated. Diana Gabaldon's editor must love her a lot, or is just too nice for the business. "Kill your darlings" -- remember that timeless piece of advice from Mark Twain?
I love Jamie and Claire (not so much Roger and Brianna) and have been hooked since Outlander, but the series is floundering, and has...more
I love Jamie and Claire (not so much Roger and Brianna) and have been hooked since Outlander, but the series is floundering, and has...more
*Poke* *Poke* *Poke*
"AAAAHHHHHH!! What the?.....who the?....where the?"
"When the?"
"Stephanie wake up! It's Claire Fraser. What are you doing here? And should you be driving that contraption? You smell like a brewery!!"
"Oh Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!....whaa....I'm not *hicup* a-saxtly sure how I ended up here. Oh look..hee...hee... I'm sitting on the time mower.....Kemper ish going to be sooo pissed at me, but what else is new?....haaaaaaaa!" *slowly sides off time mower in heap*
“Claire, what ha...more
"AAAAHHHHHH!! What the?.....who the?....where the?"
"When the?"
"Stephanie wake up! It's Claire Fraser. What are you doing here? And should you be driving that contraption? You smell like a brewery!!"
"Oh Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!....whaa....I'm not *hicup* a-saxtly sure how I ended up here. Oh look..hee...hee... I'm sitting on the time mower.....Kemper ish going to be sooo pissed at me, but what else is new?....haaaaaaaa!" *slowly sides off time mower in heap*
“Claire, what ha...more
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Sep 13, 2007
Korynn
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
jamie/claire fans
Shelves:
romance
This book is only for people who enjoy the characters and the America they inhabit. It is a series of incidents following familiar themes of kidnapping and rescue, disaster and salvation, sickness and carefully recaptured health, accusation and jail. Secrets are discovered and shared, there's sex scenes and a rape scene as another Fraser family member takes their improbable turn again as victim (what are the chances that three members of a family would be raped, one twice?)Finally,a decision is...more
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Oct 18, 2012
♠ Sharon is an emotional book junkie ♠
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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read-in-2012
**4.5 stars**
This book, this series, is a total love fest. You would have to love it to come this far in the series...and be dedicated to reading these long books. I'm always apprehensive to start one but when I do, I'm totally swept away and then I'm sooo sad when I'm finished!
As with all books in this series, DG packs an enormous amount of "happenings" into them and I actually had to take notes. But I'm not sure that I can really talk about them without spoiling something. Suffice it to say th...more
This book, this series, is a total love fest. You would have to love it to come this far in the series...and be dedicated to reading these long books. I'm always apprehensive to start one but when I do, I'm totally swept away and then I'm sooo sad when I'm finished!
As with all books in this series, DG packs an enormous amount of "happenings" into them and I actually had to take notes. But I'm not sure that I can really talk about them without spoiling something. Suffice it to say th...more
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I clearly was not in top form when I read this book and that's probably the only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. I managed to ruin this book for myself so, while this review itself may not help, I hope it will assist in making sure no one else makes the same mistake I did: I absolutely LOVED "Outlander" (the first book in this series) ... Then I really messed up. I was so excited to have read the book that I looked around to see if there was a second book. I then read "A Breath of...more
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Breath of Snow and Ashes - Ex
Gabaldon, Diana - 6th in series
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...more
Gabaldon, Diana - 6th in series
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...more
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Nov 20, 2009
Lori Anderson
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
favorites,
historical-fiction
I just have fallen completely in love with this series -- I bought them all in paperback, passed them on to a friend, and just bought them all in hardback, because I know I'll be reading them again. I finished this one last night, and joined a Yahoo group for folks who love these books, and was ECSTATIC to find out there are more coming! I thought this was the end! Unfortunately, I have to wait until the end of 2008 for the next one, but reading all of these in one fell swoop made me feel like I...more
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To quote a dear friend of mine, Diana is back on track with this one!
The 6th in the Outlander series started off a bit slow for me, but I was able to get sucked in once again. There is lots of romance and lots of drama on Fraser's Ridge as Jamie, Claire, family, and friends prepare themselves for the upcoming Revolutionary War.
And damn Diana for making me like Brianna after me being so annoyed with her in Fiery Cross. I am impressed when writers can turn your opinion around regarding characters.
The 6th in the Outlander series started off a bit slow for me, but I was able to get sucked in once again. There is lots of romance and lots of drama on Fraser's Ridge as Jamie, Claire, family, and friends prepare themselves for the upcoming Revolutionary War.
And damn Diana for making me like Brianna after me being so annoyed with her in Fiery Cross. I am impressed when writers can turn your opinion around regarding characters.
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Feb 19, 2013
Erica
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Outlander fans
Recommended to Erica by:
Lisa Whitlock
"But-oh God! Did she tell ye how it happened?" -Jamie Fraser
"Yes. I'll tell you the gory details later." -Claire Fraser
That little snippet of dialogue pretty much sums up this entire book. IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME! I admit that I really was starting to lose interest in this series after The Fiery Cross because it was just so boring, but this one really made up for it in SPADES. Oh, the drama! The scandal! The gossip! The sex scenes were better! The dialogue and jokes were better! At times, I felt...more
"Yes. I'll tell you the gory details later." -Claire Fraser
That little snippet of dialogue pretty much sums up this entire book. IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME! I admit that I really was starting to lose interest in this series after The Fiery Cross because it was just so boring, but this one really made up for it in SPADES. Oh, the drama! The scandal! The gossip! The sex scenes were better! The dialogue and jokes were better! At times, I felt...more
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Aug 31, 2008
Deanna
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Adults
Shelves:
adult,
historical-fiction
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So Melanie and I want to start a discussion about the Outlander books and my sister Melissa said to just start a review on my books and it would be sent to my friends who could then all comment and start a discussion that we can all see. Is that the longest sentence ever?
Melissa has read my personal emails from Melanie, but Lisa hasn't so just jump in because where I start here might seem random. Too bad we don't all live close so we could do lunch, although it might take a lot longer to discuss...more
Melissa has read my personal emails from Melanie, but Lisa hasn't so just jump in because where I start here might seem random. Too bad we don't all live close so we could do lunch, although it might take a lot longer to discuss...more
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Jan 18, 2009
Ikonopeiston
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Ikonopeiston by:
KJ from San Francisco
I grew bored when the action translated from Europe and especially from the highlands of Scotland to the Colonies. The book takes place in an area I know very well and I was able to visualize the scenery easily since I have actually been to many of the places mentioned. Maybe that is why I was bored.
It is extremely rare for me to not finish reading a book once I get started, however, I simply could not force myself to read the last third of this one. I feel guilty.
It is extremely rare for me to not finish reading a book once I get started, however, I simply could not force myself to read the last third of this one. I feel guilty.
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Wow....what a book! This was a long one to be sure. But, happily for me, back on par with Outlander and Voyager! After really loving the series through #3, the 4th and 5th books were somewhat disappointing for me. Both of them were way too long and I actually was bored in parts. The story left Scotland and Europe and came to the American colonies. The story started out ok but then got monotonous for me. I also didn't like what happened to some of the characters and felt some of them had very lit...more
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this book was written in typical gabaldon fashion...one outrageous (albeit entertaining) incident after another. some of the big questions i had going in to the book (such as, the article about the fire killing jamie and claire, jemmy's paternity and will anyone travel back to the 1960's) were a tad anticlimatic. i won't get in to that as i don't want to give away any spoilers. but let's just say i was a little surprised (and let down) at the way some of the events turned out. overall, i am a hu...more
This is 6th book in Jamie and Claire series.
The war is beginning to heat up. There are ruffians in the mountains looting.
Jamie has a whiskey malt shed and while Claire is there she is set upon my outlaws and kidnapped. The rape scene in this intense. And the rescue scene too.
Mulva, a tenant farmer's daughter becomes Claire's apprentice but look out, she is evil.
Claire and Mulva's father contract a horrible disease and nearly die and then Mulva accusses Jamie of being the father of her unborn c...more
The war is beginning to heat up. There are ruffians in the mountains looting.
Jamie has a whiskey malt shed and while Claire is there she is set upon my outlaws and kidnapped. The rape scene in this intense. And the rescue scene too.
Mulva, a tenant farmer's daughter becomes Claire's apprentice but look out, she is evil.
Claire and Mulva's father contract a horrible disease and nearly die and then Mulva accusses Jamie of being the father of her unborn c...more
Feb 13, 2009
Tasha
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
1000-pages-is-never-enough
I am in mourning, I miss my fictional family that I have turned to for the past month. I will miss not hearing about their daily events, adventures, mishaps, joys and sorrows. That being said, this book didn't not give me the closure that I hoped to get and I am in desperate need of another book. Great story, loved it but I really expected it to take me through the American Revolution and it didn't. It built up to it and then it ends!! UGH!!
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Well, well! Sooo many different things happened in this book. When I finished and thought back to what went on in the beginning, it seemed like years had passed! Hold up, that's probably because they did. It could have been split up into two (or three) decent novels! I loved it, and and it rivals "Voyager" for my favorite in the series. There was honestly never a dull moment, or a chapter I had to force myself through in this entire book. I'm only disappointed that I have to wait 8 whole months...more
Wow, so much happened in this book, it was amazing! There were so many elements of the story that we tied up in this book. In the beginning when I found out these books would take us to the year 1800 I was really nervous about Jamie and Claire growing old...I thought they would lose their magic and intensity.....OH how I was wrong!! I have really enjoyed watching their characters mature and grow, it has been amazing to read! The whole book was enthralling and intense! Truly an addictive addition...more
So I slogged through all 6000 some-odd pages of this and I truly hate myself because I actually want to read the next one when (if?) it comes out. I think the next story she set up is more interesting.
I guess I understand the appeal of these books. She tells a "ripping yarn" even though it takes her waaaaaaaaaaay too long to get there. Her characters are memorable. She has interesting details (albeit far too many of them.)
Far from great writing, but it's a good page turner and I must say I had...more
I guess I understand the appeal of these books. She tells a "ripping yarn" even though it takes her waaaaaaaaaaay too long to get there. Her characters are memorable. She has interesting details (albeit far too many of them.)
Far from great writing, but it's a good page turner and I must say I had...more
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Really, really good.
I really enjoyed this series and I thought the writing got better with each book. I was thinking about giving this book (and one or two of the earlier ones) 5 stars, but I couldn't because of two things: one, Gabaldon should've had better editors (or done some of her own) because her Quaker characters seem embarrassingly and unbelievably ignorant of how to use 2nd person singular. The "Thee can"s were driving me batty. "Thou canst"! "Thou canst"!
The other drawback was that character integrity an...more
The other drawback was that character integrity an...more
Why, why, why? Why do I keep doing this to myself? At what point does a rational adult say to herself, "Reader, you've done enough with syphilis, pirate kidnappings and bizarro things perpetrated by inbred feebs from the hills? Just read something else!"
I think if I knew why I keep doing this to myself, I would also be able to subsist on kale and sprouted grains and not answer the siren song of Halloween candy and things neon with fake powdered cheese.
This book took me six months of insomnia on...more
I think if I knew why I keep doing this to myself, I would also be able to subsist on kale and sprouted grains and not answer the siren song of Halloween candy and things neon with fake powdered cheese.
This book took me six months of insomnia on...more
Oh my god...there is only one more book left in the Outlander Series. Whatever will I do? I "read" these as audio books (love you, Davina Porter!!), so it takes a long time to get through an >1400 page book covering the story of the time-traveling Frasier family, Claire, immigrant from the 20th century to 18th century Scotland, where she meets and falls in love with Jamie Frasier, conceives a child, returns to the 20th century, has the baby, returns 18 or so years later and has now taken up p...more
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
My brother recommended Diana Gabaldon so I was surprised to find this is a series that involves time travel. I nearly didn't read it, but it is hard to give up reading a book when the main characters are all McKenzies and Frasers (we are also Mckenzies and Frasers). I did enjoy the intentional anachronisms of having a mid-twentieth century woman physician in late eighteenth century America. This device gave me a better picture of day to day life in colonial times. I also loved the setting of Nor...more
Diana Gabaldon has written and continues to write a time travel/historical romance/epic that is so well researched as to make it impossible to put down. I've read/listened to all the books, each one a tome, up through the most current, An Echo in the Bone, and I'm anxiously awaiting the next release.
Gabaldon says that the research requires that it take about three years for her to write a book in the series and have published. These days she has also spun off the "Lord John" series. I read one...more
Gabaldon says that the research requires that it take about three years for her to write a book in the series and have published. These days she has also spun off the "Lord John" series. I read one...more
Also published as CROSSTICH. I was scepticle as this story start - time travel is not a genre I enjoy. But it was so highly spoken about by a total stranger who didnt even know I was there that I had to give it a chance. And what a pay off. These must be some of the strongest characters I have met in a book - or maybe the time I have spent reading all the books in the series total smore than the time I have spent with most friends?? And would I go back 200 years to marry Jamie Fraser? Never, I w...more
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I was surprised I hadn't already added this book to my "to read" list because I usually always read entire series before moving on to other books. In the case of this series (The Outlander Series), I didn't interject any other books until I'd started this one, whereupon I completed two books of the Alchemyst series because they were short (in comparison) and I needed a week break.
I have to admit that even though I whinge a bit about the heaving...more
Narrated by Davina Porter
I was surprised I hadn't already added this book to my "to read" list because I usually always read entire series before moving on to other books. In the case of this series (The Outlander Series), I didn't interject any other books until I'd started this one, whereupon I completed two books of the Alchemyst series because they were short (in comparison) and I needed a week break.
I have to admit that even though I whinge a bit about the heaving...more
The trick to reading these books is to really concentrate on reading them- I made a point to read a little each day, which at least kept my interest going. I am starting to get a little fed up with the characters... pretty much the only ones I like are Roger and Jamie at this point, and Roger is sort of iffy. I get it, he has a scar from almost getting hanged in the last book. You don't need to remind me every time he appears! I read the last book! I know he has it! Also, Brianna annoys the crap...more
Dang. I'm trying to pace myself, re-reading this series (all 6,000 pages of it) before BOOK #7 arrives in the fall, heralded by a fanfare of trumpets and doves and rose petals.... BUT I'M READING TOO FAST. This is book six, and I'm done with it. And it's only May.
Liked it. It's better than #4, way better than #2, not as good as #3 or, of course, my beloved #1. Loads of stuff happens in this one, too, it's not all soggy diapers and Roger getting beaten up by a) Jamie, b) Indians, c) insane, jeal...more
Liked it. It's better than #4, way better than #2, not as good as #3 or, of course, my beloved #1. Loads of stuff happens in this one, too, it's not all soggy diapers and Roger getting beaten up by a) Jamie, b) Indians, c) insane, jeal...more
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Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona and is of Mexican-American and English descent. She has earned three degrees: a B.S. in Zoology, a M.S. in Marine Biology, and a Ph.D in Ecology.
She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona .
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“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return.
And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”
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And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”
“The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering.
"Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!”
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