A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon

Having waited eagerly for the sixth installment of the Claire and Jamie series by Diana Gabaldon, this book did not let me down. As with the previous five books, it follows the story of Claire Randall, who back in the first book (Cross Stitch) travelled from the 1940's to the 1740's to meet and fall in love with James Fraser, the strong and rather handsome highlander. Through Culloden, the aftermath, high seas travel, and adventures in a new world, these books keep you hooked with every word you read, and always leave you wanting more. I have never felt so intensely involved in a story like I do when I read these books. In the early stages of the War of ...  Read the complete review

The eagerly awaited sixth book in the series which began with Cross Stitch, which tells the story of Clare and Jamie. Clare visits a ring of stones in the Scottish Highlands after being a nurse during WW2, when she goes back in time 300 years and meets Jamie. They fall in love and try to stop the devastaing war leading to Culloden. Throughout the series they get separated and then are reunited before they travel to the new colonies of America just before the War of Independence. This book concludes the story by picking up their lives in the 3 years before the War of Independence. It also continues to tell about the lives of James and Clares's daughter Brianna and her ...  Read the complete review

'A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES' is the long-awaited sixth book in the adventures of Claire and Jamie Fraser, two beguiling fictional characters bought together in Diana Gabaldon's first book CROSS STITCH, when Dr Claire Randall inadvertently stepped through a circle of ancient standing stones in Inverness in 1946, and tumbled back 200 years to fall, literally, at the feet of Jamie Fraser, a tough but gallant Highland warrior in Jacobite Scotland. At the time (1743), Jamie was a little distracted with the lead-up to the bloody battle of Culloden, but he stopped long enough to scoop up Claire and carry her off to experience terror, deprivation, humiliation, ...  Read the complete review