Words I Write Crazy: Week 5 Reviews: Written in My Own Heart's Blood, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Week 5 Reviews: Written in My Own Heart's Blood, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

From Goodreads:

It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated.Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John's son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him.

And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past . . .

From Goodreads:

Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story. Now, in "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows," readers finally learn the truth.

From Goodreads:

The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father's identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son's behalf, and his own.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser's Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.

My Review:
Well, I've finally did it, I've caught up to what's been currently published in Outlander! I did take a big huge years break, between the Lord John Grey series, but I've done it! And Goodreads is saying that book 10 in the series could be the last in Jamie Fraser's story. Which is wild!

Loved reading these books, and I can't wait for more!

Author: Diana Gabaldon
Series: Outlander #8, 8.5, 9
Read: January 27th, 27th, 28th, 2024
Source: Own, Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and they're Historical Fiction 2024 Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Books, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood is a WTC Book!
Publisher: Dell, Doubleday Canada
Published: June 10th 2014, December 3rd 2012, November 23rd 2021

Written in My Own Heart's Blood: