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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander Book 9) Kindle Edition

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns with the “vast and sweeping” (The Washington Post) newest novel in the epic Outlander series.

War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home.

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children, and are rebuilding their home on Fraser’s Ridge—a fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather.

But tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia and, even in the mountains of the backcountry, feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before 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 coming to terms with the mysteries of his identity, his future, and the family he’s never known. His erstwhile father, Lord John Grey, has reconciliations to make and dangers to meet on his son’s behalf and on his own, and far to the north, Young Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and future, and the two women he’s loved.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie sharpens his sword, while Claire whets her surgeon’s blade: It is a time for steel.

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“Vast and sweeping . . . so intricately plotted and peopled that one is amazed [Diana Gabaldon] could conceive and write it in only seven years. Despite its scope, many of the finest moments are small ones, especially those that depict Claire and Jamie’s enduring love.”—The Washington Post

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Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels—Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, and Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone—as well as the related Lord John Grey books, Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; a collection of novellas, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; three works of nonfiction, “I Give You My Body . . .” and The Outlandish Companion, Volumes 1 and 2; the Outlander graphic novel The Exile; and The Official Outlander Coloring Book. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.

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1 THE MACKENZIES ARE HERE

Fraser’s Ridge, Colony of North Carolina June 17, 1779

THERE WAS A STONE under my right buttock, but I didn’t want to move. The tiny heartbeat under my fingers was soft and stubborn, the fleeting jolts life. The space between them was infinity, my connection to the dark sky and the rising flame.

“Move your arse a bit, Sassenach,” said a voice in my ear. “I need to scratch my nose and ye’re sitting on my hand.” Jamie twitched his fingers under me, and I moved, turning toward him as I shifted and resettled, keeping my hold on three-year-old Mandy, bonelessly asleep in my arms.
He smiled at me over Jem’s tousled head and scratched his nose. It must have been past midnight, but the fire was still high, and the light sparked off the stubble of his beard and glowed as softly in his eyes as in his grandson’s red hair and the shadowed folds of the worn plaid he’d wrapped about them both.

On the other side of the fire, Brianna laughed, in the quiet way people laugh in the middle of the night with sleeping children near.

She laid her head on Roger’s shoulder, her eyes half closed. She looked completely exhausted, her hair unwashed and tangled, the firelight scooping deep hollows in her face . . . but happy.

“What is it ye find funny, a nighean?” Jamie asked, shifting Jem into a more comfortable position. Jem was fighting as hard as he could to stay awake, but was losing the fight. He gaped enormously and shook his head, blinking like a dazed owl.

“Wha’s funny?” he repeated, but the last word trailed off, leaving him with his mouth half open and a glassy stare.

His mother giggled, a lovely girlish sound, and I felt Jamie’s smile.

“I just asked Daddy if he remembered a Gathering we went to, years ago. The clans were all called at a big bonfire and I handed Daddy a burning branch and told him to go down to the fire and say the MacKenzies were there.”

“Oh.” Jem blinked once, then twice, looked at the fire blazing in front of us, and a slight frown formed between his soft red brows. “Where are we now?”

“Home,” Roger said firmly, and his eyes met mine, then passed to Jamie. “For good.”

Jamie let out the same breath I’d been holding since the afternoon, when those four figures had appeared suddenly in the clearing below, and we had flown down the hill to meet them. There had been one moment of joyous, wordless explosion as we all flung ourselves at one another, and then the explosion had widened as Amy Higgins came out of her cabin, summoned by the noise, to be followed by Bobby, then Aidan—who had whooped at sight of Jem and tackled him, knocking him flat—with Orrie and little Rob.

Jo Beardsley had been in the woods nearby, heard the racket, and come to see . . . and within what seemed like moments, the clearing was alive with people. Six households were within reach of the news before sundown; the rest would undoubtedly hear of it tomorrow.

The instant outpouring of Highland hospitality had been wonderful; women and girls had run back to their cabins and fetched whatever they had baking or boiling for supper, the men had gathered wood and—at Jamie’s behest—piled it on the crest where the outline of the New House stood, and we had welcomed home our family in style, surrounded by friends.

Hundreds of questions had been asked of the travelers: Where had they come from? How was the journey? What had they seen? No one had asked if they were happy to be back; that was taken for granted by everyone.

Neither Jamie nor I had asked any questions. Time enough for that—and now that we were alone, Roger had just answered the only one that truly mattered.

The why of that answer, though . . . I felt a stirring of the hair on my nape.

“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” I murmured into Mandy’s black curls, and kissed her tiny, sleep-deaf ear. Once more, my fingers probed inside her clothes—filthy from travel, but very well made—and found the hairline scar between her ribs, the whisper of the surgeon’s knife that had saved her life two years ago, in a place so far from me.

It thumped peacefully along, that brave little heart under my fingertips, and I blinked back tears—not for the first time today, and surely not for the last.

“I was right, aye?” Jamie said, and I realized he’d said it for the second time.

“Right about what?”

“About needing more room,” he said patiently, and turned to gesture at the invisible rectangle of the stone foundation, the only tangible trace so far of the New House. The footprint of the original Big House was still visible as a dark mark beneath the grass of the clearing below, but it had nearly faded away. Perhaps by the time the New House was finished, it would be only a memor y.

Brianna yawned like a lion, then pushed back her tangled mane and blinked sleepily into the dark.

“We’ll probably be sleeping in the root cellar this winter,” she said, then laughed.

“O ye o’ little faith,” Jamie said, not at all perturbed. “The timber’s sawn, split, and milled. We’ll have walls and floors and windows aplenty before snowfall. Maybe no glass in them yet,” he added fairly. “But that can wait ’til the spring.”

“Mmm.” Brianna blinked again and shook her head, then stood up to look. “Have you got a hearthstone?”

“I have. A lovely wee piece of serpentine—the green stone, ken?”

“I remember. And do you have a piece of iron to put under it?”

Jamie looked surprised.

“Not yet, no. I’ll find that when we bless the hearth, though.”

“Well, then.” She sat up straight and fumbled among the folds of her
cloak, emerging with a large canvas bag, clearly heavy and full of assorted objects. She delved about in this for a few moments, then pulled out something that gleamed black in the firelight.

“Use that, Da,” she said, handing it across to Jamie.

He looked at it for a moment, smiled, and handed it to me.

“Aye, that’ll do,” he said. “Ye brought it for the hearth?”

“It” was a smooth black metal chisel, six inches long and heavy in my hand, with the word “Craftsman” imprinted in the head.

“Well . . . for a hearth,” Bree said, smiling at him. She put a hand on Roger’s leg. “At first, I thought we might build a house ourselves, when we could. But—” She turned and looked across the darkness of the Ridge into the vault of the cold, pure sky, where the Great Bear shone overhead. “We might not manage before winter. And since I imagine we’ll be imposing ourselves on you . . .” She looked up from under her lashes at her father, who snorted.

“Dinna be daft, lass. If it’s our house, it’s yours, and ye ken that well enough.” He raised a brow at her. “And the more hands there are to help with the building of it, the better. D’ye want to see the shape of it?”

Not waiting for an answer, he disentangled Jem from his plaid, eased him down on the ground
beside me, and stood up. He pulled one of the burning branches from the fire and jerked his head in invitation toward the invisible rectangle of the new foundation.

Bree was still drowsy, but game; she smiled at me and shook her head good-naturedly, then hunched her cloak over her shoulders and got up.

“Coming?” she said to Roger.

He smiled up at her and waved a hand, shooing her along. “I’m too knackered to see straight, love. I’ll wait ’til the morning.”

Bree touched his shoulder lightly and set off after the light of Jamie’s torch, muttering something under her breath as she stumbled over a rock in the grass, and I laid a fold of my cloak over Jem, who hadn’t stirred.

Roger and I sat quiet, listening to their voices move away into the dark— and then sat quiet for a few moments longer, listening to the fire and the night, and each other’s thoughts.

For them to have risked the dangers of the travel, let alone the dangers of this time and this place . . . whatever had happened in their own time . . .

He gazed into my eyes, saw what I was thinking, and sighed.

“Aye, it was bad. Bad enough,” he said quietly. “Even so—we might have gone back to deal with it. I wanted to. But we were afraid there wasn’t anyone there Mandy could feel strongly enough.”

“Mandy?” I looked down at the solid little body, limp in sleep. “Feel whom? And what do you mean, ‘gone back’?” Wait—” I lifted a hand in apology. “No, don’t try to tell me now; you’re worn out, and there’s time enough.” I paused to clear my throat. “And it’s enough that you’re here.”

He smiled then, a real smile, though with the weariness of miles and years and terrible things behind it.

“Aye,” he said. “It is.”

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Granny Jannie

Another excellent tale

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As expected, this is another fun read.. The only problem I found is that this story doesn't read as smoothly as the others. This may be that there many more characters in this book. To me it seems as if the story was written in parts, then not assimilated smoothly, making it jerky, and a lot of times I had to go back a few pages to try to pick up the story line. I plan on rereading it. I do like that all the main characters are coming together Thank you for providing my hours of enjoyment.

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Great author...great book. Don't read this book unless unless you have read the series. It is wonderful and I will NOT spoil it for anyone!!

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Another great addition to the Outlander series

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Excellent storyline as always. Greatly enjoyed the history detail if the Revolutionary War in my home state of SC. Could do with less detail on smells, Ms Gabaldon though. We get it. Things stunk in that time. Loved the bees!

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Loved it. After such a long wait, "Bees" arrived on my kindle. With a trans-Atlantic flight ahead of me, I waited to start until I was on the plane. I've never had a flight pass so quickly as that one did. Of course, I came nowhere near finishing the book, and in a great test of willpower, spread the reading over the next week. This allowed me to savor what I'd read before moving on to the following chapters. The book never disappointed me, though I admit to a few bouts of frustration while reading. One of the biggest things I noticed about this book is that it doesn't move from one crisis to another as many earlier books did. It is more character-driven, with time spent watching those characters grow, change, adjust, and generally deal with day-to-day life and life-changing situations.

The story picks up where the previous book left off, with the return of the MacKenzies to Fraser's Ridge. Claire and Jamie's happiness is evident, but so is their concern over what the future holds. Though Jamie resigned his commission in the Continental Army after Claire's injury in MOBY, they know that the war will eventually spread to their area. Jamie already sees the writing on the wall, as residents of the Ridge are split between Rebels and Loyalists. One particular resident, Captain Cunningham, will prove to be especially troublesome. It falls to Jamie to ensure the protection of his people, and he forms a militia company to do so. I loved the descriptions of his efforts to train them, including a hilarious riding lesson.

I've seen complaints from other readers that the relationship between Jamie and Claire is lacking in this book. I'm afraid I have to disagree. It is perhaps a little quieter but no less intense. Claire knows him well enough to understand when she needs to worry about him and when she can write his actions off as business as usual. At the same time, Jamie knows when to stay out of the way of Claire's medical work and when he can offer a bit of guidance. Jamie certainly knows that leaving her behind when he goes to fight is not an option. Both are haunted by the ghost of Frank Randall, thanks to his book that Brianna brought with her from the future. Knowledge of the upcoming battle at King's Mountain hangs over their heads.

Other happenings involving friends and family:

With the return of the MacKenzies, Brianna, Roger, Jem, and Mandy must readjust to life in the 18th century. Roger found his calling with the ministry and finally pursued his ordination as a Presbyterian minister. Religious life on the Ridge is as much entertainment as spiritual, and nearly everyone attends all services, including the Quaker meeting led by Ian's wife. Some of those scenes are pretty funny and go a long way toward encouraging tolerance of others' views. Brianna continues her work as an engineer helping her father and as an artist. Thanks to Lord John, she receives a commission to do a portrait in Savannah. I enjoyed the descriptions of her subject and the challenges she faced. It also put Brianna in the right place for an unexpected and frankly somewhat creepy portrait request. The descriptions of that event were so vivid that I felt as though I was there.

While in Savannah, Brianna had the opportunity to spend time with her half-brother, William. I liked his protectiveness toward his sister and his support during that weird portrait session. Brianna is aware of the strain between William and Jamie and uses the time to talk about Jamie. I laughed out loud when she told William about that particular sound he makes ("mmphm").

William matures a fair amount in this book. While he still hasn't quite come to terms with the truth about his parentage, he is getting closer. He is still just as determined to renounce his title and corrects anyone who refers to him by it. Since resigning from the British army, he's been at loose ends, so he takes on the investigation into his cousin Ben's reported death. This includes dealing with Ben's widow, Amaranthus. I freely admit that I do not like her or her hold on William. The shocking information he discovers about Ben could destroy the family, and her part in it made me dislike her even more.

I liked William's friendship with John Cinnamon, the half-Indian, half-white man he met while visiting the family's Virginia property. John was an interesting character, and his connection to Lord John made for some tense moments until the whole story came out. I loved Brianna's part in John's story and its effect on him.

During Roger and Brianna's trip to Savannah, they stopped briefly in Charles Town, South Carolina. The visit served a dual purpose. First, they returned Germaine to his parents, Fergus and Marsali. He lived on the Ridge while they all recovered from Henri-Christian's death. Fergus and Marsali run a successful printing business, working solidly on the side of the Americans. Fergus's connections make him the perfect person to help Roger and Bree acquire rifles for Jamie's militia. The descriptions of everything involved in this undertaking were, at times, scary and hilarious. There were some intense moments when Loyalists made their unhappiness with Fergus and his views plain. The danger motivates Fergus and family to relocate. Fergus also has another encounter with someone claiming to know the truth of his birth.

Other residents of the Ridge also have their challenges. Frances (Fanny), the girl William rescued in the previous book, lives with Jamie and Claire. It takes a long time for her to believe that she is safe with them and doesn't have to worry about her future. Her grief for her sister profoundly affects her life, and I ached for everything she experienced in her short life. She is an interesting mixture of innocence and experience, and some of the things she says are both funny and heartbreaking. I look forward to seeing what the future holds for her.

Life in the backwoods can be hazardous, and tragedy can strike without warning. The gruesome death of a young woman brought that danger home in a memorable scene. I ached for Bobby over the loss of his wife. In another scene, attending a difficult birth brings Claire closer to the manifestation of her full healing powers. It also brings another girl to the attention and guardianship of the Frasers.

Young Ian and Rachel have settled on the Ridge, along with Ian's mother, Jenny. Their love was as surprising as it was intense, and I enjoyed seeing their continuing adjustments to life together as Mohawk and Quaker. When Ian receives word that his first wife is now a widow and could be in danger, nothing will stop him from checking up on her. I loved that Rachel insisted on going with him, along with their baby and Jenny. I wasn't sure how that encounter would go, and I admit to being pleasantly surprised. The scene between Emily and Rachel was incredibly emotional, and I loved every moment of it. There was an interesting twist involving Jenny, and I look forward to seeing where it goes.

I also enjoyed seeing some minor characters from previous books make appearances. The Quaker woman and her daughters who helped Jamie in the last book are on his mind when Ian heads north. When Jamie asks Ian to check on her during his trip, Ian is shocked by what he finds. I loved his honor-fueled protectiveness and the actions it led to. It did somewhat complicate his life and journey. An unexpected twist ended with Mrs. Hardiman and her daughters traveling back to the Ridge. Ulysses (from River Run) was a less welcome visitor in a British uniform and bearing ill intentions toward Jamie.

Lord John and his brother Hal, Duke of Pardloe, have several appearances in this book. Hal's seniority in the army put him at the center of the action. His views on the war don't necessarily match those of his compatriots. I liked his devotion to his family and ached over the effect of Ben's actions on him. John's relationship with William continues to be strained over the revelations of his parenthood. The same goes for his friendship with Jamie, thanks to John's brief marriage to Claire. Strained or not, John is there for William when he's needed, and there is never a doubt about how much he cares for William. John's past comes back to bite him when he's kidnapped in an attempt to influence Hal's plans for a trip to England.

Double agent (but for whom?) Richardson makes another appearance. This time he has an agenda of his own that he will do anything to advance. William is especially disturbed by Richardson's statement that he knows Brianna and the hint of an underlying threat. A rough sketch done by William and shown to Brianna makes the unthinkable not only possible but terrifyingly real.

The book ended in a cliffhanger with Lord John still a captive and William searching for help to save him. I hope that the next book doesn't take as long as this one did. I need to know what happens!

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I Still Love Jamie and Claire

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The ninth book in Gabaldon’s Outlander series finds the Fraser family reunited during the American Revolution. It’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie Fraser have found each other across time and space and are living peacefully in North Carolina. 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. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. 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.

Hi, my name is Amy, and I am an Outlanderaholic. I’d never read a novel more than once… until Outlander came along. I read books 1-8 twice and watched the series, so as soon as the next installment in the book series was announced, I preordered it. At over 900 pages in a teeny tiny font, the hardcover was daunting, but the length wasn’t the issue, it was the weight. Holding it hurt my arthritic hands, so I put it on my bookshelf next to the rest of its family and splurged on the eBook. Much more manageable!

Diana Gabaldon’s gift for imparting historical detail—from food, nomenclature, clothing, hairstyles, culture, music, tools, dwellings, etc.—blows my mind. She must spend nearly as much time researching as she does writing. She does an impressive job of blending real people and places with the fictional. Most of the people on Fraser’s Ridge are not actual historical figures, but many other characters were involved in the Revolutionary War. Her use of accents lends an authenticity to her books, especially the Gaelic. I speak in a Scottish lilt for days after closing the cover of one of her novels.

In her last few books, the author focused overmuch on Roger and Brianna, and less on Claire and Jamie. That made sense for the continuation of the series, but fans were disappointed. In Go Tell the Bees, she returned to why I love the series… the star-crossed, time-traveling lovers. For the first time in my outlandish tenure as a super fan, however, I have a few couple minor criticisms (reading was more blissful before I started editing full time). First, it’s ridiculous that the Jamie and Claire, are experts at everything to which they set their minds. Second, it is important for writers to vary the length of their sentences to avoid sounding choppy, but in many instances, Gabaldon wrote crazy long sentences with multiple semicolons and dashes, and I got lost in them. Third, I’m hoping she avoids having Claire say, “Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ” so often. It was offensive.

Just my two cents—she clearly doesn’t need my accolades or criticisms. Before #9 was published, she’d already sold 26 million books, not to mention the greenbacks she’s making from the series. The ending of Go Tell the Bees was disappointing, but the good news is that she clearly set up the next installment. 4.5 stars.

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Annell van Zyl

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What a wonderful book in a delightful series, filled with rounded characters against a historical setting with the most amazing adventures!

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Excelente estado

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Llego muy bien y muy rápido

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Margaret Danard

Really good read

Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2024

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Love that the story continues. Did not expect it to end with a cliffhanger when book 10 is not released yet. Can’t wait for the next instalment!

Mayra Fernanda

A espera valeu MUITO a pena!

Reviewed in Brazil on December 16, 2021

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ATENÇÃO! SE VOCÊ NÃO GOSTA DE SPOILER NÃO LEIA ESSA REVIEW!

Tem muitos spoilers na minha review, então se você não quer perder a surpresa ao ler o livro, não leia a minha review!

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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone foi uma leitura completamente envolvente e cativante por um todo. É um livro tão grande quanto o Livro 5, mas que você nem nota o tanto que leu até perceber que faltam poucas páginas para acabá-lo.

Há tantos momentos maravilhosos entre o Jaime e a Claire! Não só românticos, como DRs maravilhosas! hahahaha Eu amo quando eles brigam, pois é um barato como eles não baixam a bola um com o outro, e quando fazem as pazes é a coisa mais fofa do mundo hahaha

Temos alguns mistérios resolvidos nesse livro (pontos soltos do Livro 7 e 8), e novos mistérios ainda a serem resolvidos no último livro (que segundo o site oficial da Diana, o livro 10 será o último livro focado no Jaime e na Claire, ela vai fechar o ciclo).

Primeiramente, vamos começar com a volta de Bree, Roger e as crianças a Fraser's Ridge.

- Bree conta sobre Rob Cameron para o pai e ao primo Ian;
- Roger conta ao Jaime sobre ter conhecido Brian Fraser e Janet Fraser em 1739, além de seu sentimento de culpa por não ter matado Black Jack Randall na oportunidade que teve, e também de não ter salvo o sogro de ser açoitado, alegando medo de impedir a existência de Brianna (e se ele mudasse algo que impedisse Jaime de conhecer Claire em 1743?).
- Jane também sabe que conheceu Roger quando jovem, pois ela atualmente mora em Fraser's Ridge, e Jaime contou para ela que ela conheceu anos atrás seu genro (e o garoto que ele procurava era seu neto, Jemmy).

Segundamente, vamos para mistérios envolvendo a novela dos Grey.

- Ben forjou a própria morte pois ele está do lado dos Patriotas e se passa por um General chamado Bleeker (Dottie e Denzel estão do lado dele);
- Richardson tem provas que Lord John é sodomita e quer usar isso contra ele para seus fins próprios (e William sabe do boato do pai ser sodomita);
- Richardson na verdade é Michael Callahan (o arqueologista que estava junto de Rob Cameron no século XX, e sequestrou Jemmy). Ele fez uma cirurgia plástica para mudar de rosto.
- Richardson (Mike) tem interesse de impedir que os Patriotas ganhem a guerra para impedir a Guerra Civil americana de 1861. Ele quer proteger os negros de passarem mais anos em escravidão (que acontece porquê os patriotas vencem a guerra contra os legalistas em 1781). Para isso, fez chantagem com John Grey, pois Hal era uma peça chave para o final da Guerra e o lado vencedor. Ou Hal protege John (de ser morto por ser um sodomita) ou proteger Ben (de ser um traidor da coroa). No fim, esse é o verdadeiro motivo de Richardson fazer tudo o que fez.
- Richardson sequestra John, pois ele quer que John convença o irmão de ser a favor da Guerra contra as colônias continuar (John sem dúvida irá salvar o sobrinho Ben de ser enforcado por traição, então acredito que ele não irá convencer o irmão do que Richardson quer).
- Percy conta para William que é meio-irmão do John.
- Percy diz que ama John para o próprio, antes do mesmo ser liberto por Richardson do cárcere (que está com a custódia de John, pois pelo jeito, ele está determinado a enganar Richardson, e não vai convencer o irmão Hal a ficar do lado dos Legalistas, algo que Richardson quer). John quer proteger Ben. Acho que ele vai se sacrificar.
- Amaranthus não ama William (William a pediu em casamento, mas foi negado). Ela ainda ama Ben.
- Bree faz um retrato de Cinnamon, para que Lord John mande para seu verdadeiro pai. O pai de Cinnamon quando recebe o retrato pede ao filho que vá para a Inglaterra, pede perdão e quer conhecê-lo e reconhecê-lo.
- Bree e William ficam muuuuuuito próximos nesse livro, o amor fraterno entre eles foi natural e instantâneo (Bree só soube que Richardson é Mike porquê Richardson ameaça William ao falar da Bree, e William temendo pela irmã, manda uma carta para ela com um retrato desenhado por ele do rosto de Richardson, e então Bree reconhece ele por uns detalhes, vendo que se tratava de Michael do futuro).

Terceiramente, vamos a outras informações ainda importantes:

- Brianna trás ao passado um livro que Frank publicou antes de sua morte, chamado "As raízes escocesas na Guerra de Independência Americana". Nesse livro, há um Jaime Fraser que morre em uma das guerrilhas;
- Jaime finalmente vê o rosto de Frank na contra capa do livro, e se assusta com sua semelhança com Black Jack Randall. O mesmo se recusa a acreditar no que está escrito no livro, mesmo sendo de um historiador. (há um momento bem legal, onde ele demanda da Claire o motivo dela nunca ter contado que Frank e Black Jack eram parecidos, e ela diz que o motivo é óbvio... não queria pertubá-lo com a informação que ela fora casada com um homem parecido com o homem que fez as atrocidades que fez ao Jaime, traumatizando-o);
- Esse livro 9 é o livro onde há mais surtos de ciúmes do Jaime. Vemos a insegurança do mesmo, achando que Frank era um homem melhor para a Claire do que ele;
- Um índio (Sachem) que está próximo de Fraser's Ridge para ver o rumo da guerra, se aproxima de Claire e Jaime (viram amigos), e ele diz para Claire que vê o fantasma de um homem e uma criança sempre a seguindo. Ele está falando de Frank e de Faith. Os fantasmas só querem o bem da Claire. Ah, e o fantasma de Frank também segue o Jaime.
- Nunca Faith foi tão citada como ela é nesse livro 9. Há muitos gatilhos. Um deles é que a mãe da Fanny (menina que Jaime e Claire adotam, a que William salvou e trouxe para eles - já que a irmã Jane não estava mais entre eles) se chama Faith. Claire chega a achar que poderia ser a Faith dela, mas não faz sentido, pois ela viu a Faith morta. Outro gatilho é quando Claire faz o parto de uma mulher que tem gêmeos, e a menina nasce morta, e Jaime quando pega a menina no colo (o mesmo está ajudando ela no parto), começa a chorar, pois ele lembra que Faith também nasceu natimorta. A menina no fim volta a respirar, e acredito que seja por conta da "luz azul" da Claire;
- Nesse livro, Jaime literalmente morre, porém é salvo pela "luz azul" da Claire. No livro, Roger nota que uma espécie de luz azul emana das mãos de Claire quando a mesma não desiste de salvar Jaime de seus graves ferimentos após a última batalha próxima de Fraser's Ridge. Jaime já esgotou sua cota de 9 vidas, já está fazendo é hora extra;
- Jaime diz que uma vidente disse a ele que ele teria que morrer 9 vezes até morrer de verdade (isso aconteceu quando ele estava na França em 1739). Mas pelas contas... ele já passou da cota e tá vivo ainda, ele REALMENTE tá fazendo hora extra rs.
- Tem somente uma morte chocante, a da Sra. Higgins (morta por um urso enquanto colhia uvas com a Bree);
- Bree e Roger tem mais um bebê, ele se chama David Mackenzie;
- Fergus e Marsali tem um casal de gêmeos também;
- Mandy diz para Jaime que ela e Jemmy não sentem o irmão caçula Davy (David). Ela diz que o irmão tem a mesma cor do avô, "água/azul". Por conta disso, o Jaime acredita que seu neto mais novo não pode passar pelas pedras (por ser como ele). Se isso for verdade, Brianne e Roger nunca mais voltam ao futuro, pois jamais deixariam o filho mais novo para trás.
- Silvia e suas três filhas (que ajudou Jaime no Livro 8, o abrigou, deu comida e ajudou a se recuperar, recebeu ajuda financeira de Jaime através de Ian, atualmente - após saber que o marido Gabriel casou com uma índia e tem outra família- foi para Fraser’s Ridge e mora lá também). No final do livro, ela se casa com Bob Higgins (que ficou viúvo no início do livro).
- Emily é viúva, e como Ian soube de um massacre na tribo onde vive, quis saber como estavam as coisas. Ian tem certeza de que o filho mais velho dela é dele. Atualmente, Ian está em Fraser’s Ridge com Rachel, o filho deles (que finalmente tem nome, Hunter James) e também o filho mais velho dele com a Emily.

O final do livro termina com William correndo até Fraser's Ridge desesperado pela ajuda de Jaime. Percy contou para ele que John está sob custódia de Richardson, e William quer salvá-lo. O ano é 1781 (Jaime fará 60 anos, e Claire 64). Jaime detalha que o cabelo de Claire está da cor da luz da lua (lembrando que a índia deixou claro que Claire estaria em seus plenos poderes quando seus cabelos estivessem totalmente brancos).

E com isso, agora é o desespero em aguardar uns aninhos para o lançamento do Livro 10. Do início ao fim, esse livro foi emocionante. E agora tenho uma atualização da minha lista de favoritos!

Ordem dos meus livros favoritos:

1 - Diga as Abelhas que Fui Embora (Livro 9)
2 - Escrito com o Sangue do Meu Coração (Livro 8)
3 - Um Sopro de Neve e Cinzas (Livro 6)
4 - Os Tambores do Outono (Livro 4)
5 - A Viajante do Tempo (Livro 1)
6 - A Cruz de Fogo (Livro 5)
7 - A Libélula no Âmbar (Livro 2)
8 - O Resgate no Mar (Livro 3)
9 - Ecos do Futuro (Livro 7)