by Daniel Abraham
As the title advertises, An Autumn War is the war book of the Long Price Quartet. Book 1 of this epic was the romance, Book 2 was the court intrigue, and Book 3 is the blood and thunder. As with the preceding books, it molds itself around the seasons, shaping plot threads and character arcs aroun...
This third installment of Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet is definitely more than the sum of its predecessors, both of them outstanding books: where the first two parts of this series introduced the world in which the action unfolds, and fleshed out the characters peopling it, An Autumn War brin...
I really liked the first two in this series. This one, I loved. I feel like the themes of the story come to full fruition in this one. Otah Machi has, somewhat reluctantly, become Khai, and is working on the difficult business of ruling. His job is about to get much harder, because General Gice, of ...
The adventures of Platonist Forms continue here, and the narrative ticks up a notch in this installment, as compared to the previous two. Part of the added tension is the addition of a perspective of the enemy, in the person of Balasar Gice, who is something of the setting's Miles Teg, (sans superp...
Cross-posted on ReaderlingI've realized something about Abraham's writing. He shows you the anvil he's going to drop on your head. There's a sussurus of silk as he slowly lifts the cover away, a hint of jasmine in the air as you sip tea, growing cold the way everything warm does. You consider the an...
This series just gets better and better. In 'An Autumn War', we have moved on another fifteen years or so, and for the first time the shadowy threat of the Galts, seemingly behind every conspiracy in the previous books, moves out into the open, with an audacious plan - no less than to destroy the an...
Excellent!
I enjoyed it, though I wasn't as impressed as by the previous two volumes. In particular, some of the characters' motivations never rang true to me. I think I'd have bought them more if less had been left off-screen--for example, if we'd had any first-hand evidence of Sinja's feelings for Kiyan (rat...
Shadow was good. Betrayal was quite good. This book is even better. Wow! Abraham is really firing on cylinders in this one. This book has everything and the author is clearly pulling no punches in what might be one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
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