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Date Posted: 15:12:00 11/02/09 Mon
Author: Jackie
Subject: A Breath of Snow and Ashes Summary?

Hi Ladies,

I've been following the series for many years but I read A Breath of Snow and Ashes when it first came out. I'm currently back in school and don't have very much time for recreational reading but wanted a refresher in regards to what happened in the last novel before moving on to Echo. Does anyone know where I can find a fairly detailed summary (the major events that occurred?)

Thanks!!!

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[> Check with your library and see if they have the abridged audio version. It will only give you some of the highlights. Or we can start a list here *G* Jocasta was having an affair with Ulysses, Duncan with Phedra and Hector Cameron was her father. -- Cherie, 06:34:50 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> haha. Okay, Brianna, Roger, Jem and Mandy go back to their own time because Mandy has a heart problem that Claire can't fix; Claire meets another time-traveler, an American Indian by the name of Donner who has come back to try to change the course of events and strengthen the Indians position, except Donner is a moron so no one cares when he is blown up in the Big House, ether-explosion at the end of the book (Donner and co. come looking for the rumoured treasures at Fraser's Ridge and end up blowing themselves up); and speaking of rumoured treasures, Jocasta has lost her gold. It is missing from Hector's tomb at River Run and turns out Arch and Mrs. Bug took it and hid it under the Big House under the protection of the Great White Sow. Arch Bug was the mysterious third party to the gold so Jamie sends Arch and Mrs. Bug off with a piece of gold and good riddance. Jocasta and Duncan don't know this though and retire to Nova Scotia. -- Jodi YoB, 07:22:42 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> LOVE that "Great White Sow"! -- fionaj, 10:58:14 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> LOVE that the Great White Sow was also having sex. *g* -- Jodi YoB, 12:48:05 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> [> LOL! -- fionaj, 12:52:09 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> Ian had a baby girl that died at birth that he never saw - the Mohawk called her Y'eksa (sp?) but he called her Iseobil. Brianna was kidnapped at Neil Forbes behest by Stephen Bonnet but they rescued her and she shot him in the head as a mercy when he was staked out to drown in Wilmington, where she encountered Lord John and William and demanded to know the truth and told the truth in return. The MacKenzies returned to their own time through the standing stones on Ocrakoake. -- kgp, 07:40:47 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> And William's friend wanted to have sex with Brianna but fortunately LJG was there. -- Jayn, 16:31:46 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> Not in ABOSAA -- kgp, 05:26:16 11/05/09 Thu

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[> [> Clare gets kidnapped and raped and is saved by the men of the Ridge. Marsalie (sp?) has a baby boy, who is a dwarf. Fergus trys to kill himself, but he's ok now. Roger makes little cars for the boys and they call them varooms. --

Cherie, 08:51:53 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> Cherie, you missed the best part,...Claire and Jamie have great sex, again. ! -- Jayn, 09:17:05 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> and again. -- kgp, 09:47:08 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> [> and again. -- Jayn, 11:11:06 11/03/09 Tue

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[> Lizzie's fiance, Manfred, has syphillus and runs off. She marries the Beardsley twins and they have a little boy named Rodney. Joseph marries a German woman named Monika. The Snowbird tribe has 30 guns, thanks to Jamie. Bird thinks Bear Killer is a very funny man. Roger and Brianna have great sex again. -- kgp, 10:36:09 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> But Bird and his wife think Hiram is either a little strange or a cannibal, and...[do] Joseph and Monika have sex? -- fionaj, 18:08:40 11/03/09 Tue

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[> A few additions to this excellent listing: There are lots of gangs marauding through the countryside; Jamie is an Indian Agent…then he’s not; Claire is abducted and Marsali assaulted by one of these gangs; Jamie and the men of Ridge get Claire back in very dramatic fashion; Manfred gets the pox from a whore in Hillsborough and can’t marry Lizzie after all; Roger heeds the call to become a minister; Jamie declares for liberty; Lizzie becomes pregnant and marries Jo…and Kezzie; Jem has lice and Roger thinks he may have some, too; Malva Christie becomes pregnant by her brother Allan but accuses Jamie, and then is murdered; Richard Brown tries to arrest Claire and/or Jamie for the murder; Tom Christie is Claire’s savior; Murtaugh is with Jamie at the battle at the Bridge; Jamie dreams of Jem picking up a phone in the manse in Inverness and saying “I want to talk to grandda.”; Roger and Bree are at Lallybroch and have found a box of treasures from the past. -- fionaj, 10:57:32 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> And then they have sex. (This is fun) -- Jayn, 11:12:12 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> Oh, and Manfred and his girlfriend[the same whore] are together and help Brianna escape from Bonnet, and Claire gives them both penicillan...and a new lease on life. And then they, also [presumably] have sex. -- fionaj, 11:46:22 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> Conversation in the tee-pee [sort of]: Jamie: "Ian! There's a naked woman in my bed!" Ian: "There are two of them, Uncle Jamie." Ian was laughing, damn him. Jamie hadn't heard him laugh like that for quite a while." [Well, so am I, Jamie, can't help it!] -- fionaj, 13:57:47 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> BTW: This conversation takes place directly after Jamie wonders if the Great White Sow eats the boars after mating with them. -- fionaj, 14:03:34 11/03/09 Tue

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[> Claire has been very ill and almost died of some kind of ameobic dysentery [?], but decides to live at the last moment. Jamie was in the depths of despair, of course, but soon they ...[you know what I'm going to say!] -- fionaj, 11:53:22 11/03/09 Tue

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[> One of my favorite scenes in all of ABOSAA is the one where Aiden, Germain, Jemmy and Henri-Christian don't want to part when Fergus and Marsali move off of the Ridge. When Germain says "No, Uncle Roger, I will walk" it makes me tear up every time. -- fionaj, 12:06:12 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> Pretty sure Germain isn't having sex yet, althought he is French.... -- Jayn, 12:31:21 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> Yikes! When is he going to be 15? 1782 [I think]? Looks like we still have some time to get used to *that* idea. -- fionaj, 12:48:58 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> You left out that Melva poisoned Claire on purpose with amoebic dysentery so she would die. She also poisoned her father (same reason). Then Melva would be able to have sex with Jamie. Then her brothers's baby (which she was carrying at the time) would be seen to be Jamie's and everyone else (namely Melva and her brother) would live happily ever after having sex. again. and again. -- swarl, 13:47:36 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> This belongs underneath fionaj's great response. This group synopsis is one of the funniest things I've ever read. AND it is damn accurate. LOLOLOL -- swarl, 13:50:15 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> Yes. And just to creep everyone out a little more, the amoebic dysintery came from the body of the Sin Eater, -- fionaj, 13:51:27 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> Whoa! Hold on...a small inaccuracy there. Various folkies on the Ridge DID have amoebic dysentery, which Claire was never able to determine the source of (though she speculated). But she and Tom Christie, though ill at the same time as the others, suffered from some kind of virulent fever, with terrible headache and convulsions. Malva introduced the bacteria to poison them, yes, using what Claire had taught her about germs in an attempt to kill them both, and have it blamed on the epidemic. -- Elenna, 17:25:08 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> [> Thanks Elenna. -- fionaj, 18:13:15 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> [> She speculated it might have been meningitis but it could have been dengue fever if the sin eater had contracted it from someone who came from the lowlands. -- kgp, 05:44:56 11/04/09 Wed

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[> : D This is a Great synopsis, ladies...absolutely brilliant! Dinna stop now!! *holding my sides laughing* -- Elenna, 12:45:48 11/03/09 Tue

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[> Tom Christie saves Claire (who is imprisoned for murder of Tom's daughter, Malva) because he is in love with her and says so to anyone who wil listen. But they don't have sex. We all would've been creeped out by Tom Christie-Claire sex, so DG spared us. -- swarl -, 13:40:54 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> Deo Gratias! -- fionaj, 13:48:32 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> I don't know, she taught Jamie pretty good....and you know these zealous religious types..... -- Jayn, 16:29:41 11/03/09 Tue

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[> Oh, yeah! Gideon, he of sound wind but questionable character, finally finds useful, paying work...having sex... -- fionaj, 14:10:28 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> Which reminds us of the scene at King Louis' royal stable and more sex. -- Jayn, 16:27:27 11/03/09 Tue

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[> Also Roger is trying to become a minister, but fail to fulfill his dream because Brianna is kidnapped by Bonnet, and in the end of the book kills him -- BrandyC, 14:45:01 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> also Bobby hooks up with Amy and they have sex although we are not privy to that exchange. -- BrandyC, 14:46:24 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> by hooking up I mean get married -- BrandyC, 14:47:04 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> [> [> also Ian killed Allen Christie after hearing he was having sex with Malva....major gross... ok I could go on oand on with what happened in the book just trying to touch on points that have not been touched on... this is fun -- BrandyC, 14:49:10 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> and since he's no a Catholic it doesn't matter that he's married and that he continues to have great sex! Am thinking of the scene when he comes back the first time and he is quoting about "his Beloved" from the Bible... -P -- evey, 08:50:48 11/06/09 Fri

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[> Ian is chosen by Niel Forbes' ear. -- fionaj, 18:29:33 11/03/09 Tue

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[> [> Neil Forbes is most definitely not having sex. -- kgp, 05:46:19 11/04/09 Wed

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[> [> [> But he wanted to with Bree. -- Jayn, 08:06:29 11/04/09 Wed

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[> thanks -- Jackie, 16:43:08 11/08/09 Sun

Thanks so much for the excellent brief and funny recap! There were a few key points that slipped my memory - thanks again!!!

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