Drums of Autumn (Outlander)

'This is the fourth in Gabaldon's "Outlander" series. The Frasier family all ends up in "the colonies" in pre-revolutionary days. I have good and bad feelings about this book. I am totally caught up in the series and intend to finish it--eventually--through the 6th book (each book runs around 1,000 pages). But this wasn't one of the best. It dragged terribly in spots. One of Gabaldon's strong points is her ability to paint a picture with words...you see, smell and hear the time and place that she is describing. But by the same token, sometimes you just don't care about the bloody smell of the wood or the sound of the birds or the feel of crisp leaves under the foot, when you're desperate to find out what's going to happen next in the story. Also, Brianna Randall-Frasier takes a large part of this story. There is a long part of the book where I wanted to slap her for being such a whiny ninny. But overall, this was another page-turner in the saga of the time-traveling Frasier family.