Outlander Book Club: Drums of Autumn Chapter 24 breakdown

Just the Outlander chapter

Roger gets a letter from Brianna at the start of the chapter. We don’t get to hear what the letter says, but it doesn’t seem all that important. Roger notes that Brianna’s openness in her letters has stopped a little.

He wonders if it’s Brianna pulling away from him or whether it’s Brianna and Roger just getting more comfortable with each other. The honeymoon phase is done, and there’s only so many ways you can say the same thing over and over again.

However, Roger is worried about losing Brianna. He even reads a gossip magazine that Fiona sent him because there’s an article about how to keep a guy interested. Roger goes through a few of the tips, with one of them focused on honesty. He knows he hasn’t been honest, still not telling Bree about the obituary he’s found.

In the end, it seems he realizes that he may have ended up losing the woman he loves.

The chapter isn’t all that important in the overall story, and it feels out of place in the middle of chapters focused on Claire and Jamie in the 18th century. Maybe it would have been best to keep this straight after the chapter where he found the obituary.

The only thing this chapter really does is hint at things to come.