The Price of Spring
Written by Daniel Abraham
Narrated by Neil Shah
4/5
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About this audiobook
But Maati, a poet who has been in hiding for years and is driven by guilt over his part in the disastrous end of the war, defies tradition and begins training female poets. With Eiah, the emperor's daughter, helping him, he intends to create andat and to restore the world to how it was before the war. As the prospect of peace dims under the lash of Vanjit's new andat, Maati and Eiah try to end her reign of terror. But time is running out for both the Galts and the Khaiem.
Daniel Abraham
Daniel Abraham has had stories published in the Vanishing Acts, Bones of the World, and The Dark anthologies, and has also been included in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction anthology. He won the International Horror Writers Association award for best short fiction for his story “Flat Diane.” His books include The Long Price Quartet, starting with A Shadow in Summer. He lives in New Mexico with his wife and daughter.
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Reviews for The Price of Spring
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The final volume of the Long Price Quartet enlarges on the themes of the preceding three novels and melds them together with intriguing character studies of the central figures. Maati and Otah, each in their own way, attempt to correct the horrific damage they caused in An Autumn War. However, their methods contradict each other and result in even more destruction before a solution is reached. Epic in its scope, The Price of Spring is a satisfying conclusion to the Long Price Quartet.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a really brilliant conclusion to the series, I thought. Lots of ends were tied up, and the result was both realistic and (a bit) hopeful.Based on this, I really recommend the series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The last of the Long Price Quartet. Another 15 years have passed. Galt and the cities of the khaiem have lost a generation of children. Their enemies are pressing against them as they inexorably age. Otah, now emperor, has gone to Galt to persuade them to trade fertile women for fertile men. But others are not willing to abandon the wounded and are working to bring back the andat. Can what was broken be healed? Can the world be renewed? Or will there be further damage?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this fourth and final volume of The Long Price Quartet, the furor of the war between Galt and the cities of the Khaiem is long over and both sides are struggling to find a future after the unimaginable tragedy that ended it. Otah, Maati and the other major players are becoming old and the pace of the story adjusts to reflect this. Instead of a struggle of armies, the struggles are those of politics and visions for the future—strive to recapture the glories of the past or set aside old animosities and look to the future? This is not to imply that there is anything dull about this tale; if anything, the characters continue to get deeper and draw the reader more firmly into their world. It is simply more reflective in nature.And the story ends. As I mentioned in my review of An Autumn War, I'm very happy that Abraham was able to define a complete story arc. I was left with a sense of completion...that I was told a story with a beginning, middle and end...that I don't get from the current trend in fantasy series of wandering ever-onward on some endless path.Fantasy books aren't for everyone (though the fantasy aspects of this series are rather light) but, if you do enjoy the genre, I'm hard-put to think of another completed series by a current author that I found so satisfying.