by Daniel Abraham
When I finish the first book in a series I don't usually go straight to the following volume, leaving myself some time to… digest the story and the characters. Not this time: after closing A Shadow in Summer I began immediately to read book two, and that might explain the undefined feeling of someth...
A sequel to ‘A Shadow in Summer,’ set in the same location and a few years after the events of the previous book, but it also works as a contained story.The Khai of Sarakheyt is ailing. Tradition demands that the next ruler of the city will be the last son of the current Khai left alive – it is the ...
Superior to the first volume in several respects, this installment does shed some additional light on the central mechanism of the setting, the supernatural master/slave relation, thus remedying one of the principal defaults of the first volume, which withheld information on this point, perhaps in a...
The second book of the series, 'The Betrayal of Winter', is a much more racy read than the first, moving along at a cracking pace. It focuses on the means of inheritance of the Khaiem (the three eldest sons compete for the right to inherit by killing their rivals, and all other sons are sent away to...
Cross-posted on ReaderlingIt pisses me off how good a writer Daniel Abraham is. It pisses me off more that you lot don't seem to be reading him at all. I'm going to start buying his books and mailing them to you for your birthday, L. Ron Hubbard style. This is not an idle threat. A Betrayal in Winte...
Very exciting - I couldn't put it down. I preferred the andat from the first novel better...he was a little more evil...but this was still a very exciting read, and I liked the ending much better than the first. Now for the next installment...
I know that I've rated the first installment of the Long Price higher, but I think this one is actually my favorite. In an interview, Abraham said he "started understanding some things about structure and pace, information control and plot" with An Autumn War, but he's already executing it all rathe...
The second book in the series and is a significant improvement. I'm beginning to realize the author's strength in characterization. Plus, I was surprised by the boldness of the time jump. Most authors aren't willing to take the risks that Abraham does.
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