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final book in the quartet was a fast, nerve racking roller coaster! I enjoyed the ride immensely,

Decades have passed since bookand beloved characters have aged and changed with the years, It is not so often that a Fantasy writer can have me thinking so deeply about change and effectnot only in his fantasy world, but relating it all to my own reallife world.
When a writer can move my emotions from joy, to despair to utter WTFmaking me laugh, cry and scream No! not him, don't kill him! until the punch in the arm comes from my husband Well, that's a damn good writer.


Things I have said in earlier reviews on this author: Such panache in writing style and creating interesting, complex characters, magic system and world.


If you enjoy high fantasy and have not sampled sitelinkDaniel Abraham's solo work, I highly recommend you read this series.
If you don't like it, well then, I am sorry we just cannot be friends,.very emotional book I read this in sitelinkThe Price of War omnibus,

The Price of Spring concluded the Long Price Quartet wonderfully and I couldnt possibly ask for a better conclusion for this series.


Ive said all I needed to say about the great things of this series in my previous three reviewswhich Ill link at the end of my review belowand they are all still true.
Im just going to add a few more tidbits about this series and what kind of audience it catered to,

The Long Price Quartet is thoroughly an adult fantasy, and by that, I didnt mean it as gritty, heavy worldbuilding, and that kind of stuff I truly meant it as a series that will appeal more for an adult.
The main theme of this series is the cycle of life, the passing of the torch to the next generations, regrets, acceptance, and how the passage of time changed people and the world we lived in.
If I was younger like let's sayyears old, this series wouldnt have worked at all for me it would've bore me to death.
Im not kidding, theres almost no action at all within the entire series,

“Every nation ends and every empire, Every baby born was going to die, given enough time, If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, wed slaughter children fresh from the womb.
But we dont. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever.
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Ever since the beginning of the prologue in the first book of the quartet,years have passed and within that period of time, these characters have gone through tons of changes, hard choices, and consequences.
This is a series that I think will truly appeal more to an adult audience, especially if you already have your own kids on or sadly, lost your parents not talking about secondhand experience here but truly experienced it on your own.
Parenthood, redemption, family, and friendship are a huge aspect of this series, When we were young, we tend to act righteously without thinking about the future, When we have become an adult, we look back at what we did, regret them, or laughed at some of the things we thought were a big deal back then.

“if good judgment were part of being young, there would be no reason to grow old”

Keeping these in mind, combined with great characterizations, excellent worldbuilding, unique originality, and wonderful prose, The Long Price Quartet is a great series that will intrigue readers as they grow older and have experienced the harshness and beauty of life.


That said, the last installment is in my opinion not the best installment of the series the third book is.
In this book, Abraham changes a bit of its storytelling style, In the previous three books, the POV changes between multiple characters that is not the case here, Prologue and epilogue aside, the content of the book shifts only between the two main characters of the series, This is good for the more intimate approach as we have watched the two characters growth from childhood, However, one of the character development infuriate me repeatedly and I simply cant empathize with him, This characters POV ruined a bit of my enjoyment of the last book, sometimes even bore me,

Regardless of the minor cons I had in the book and although the series fell a bit short to be included in my list of favorite series of all time, The Long Price Quartet is still a wonderful series that I highly recommend to anyone looking for a highly original lowfantasy series with a lot of subtlety and Eastern influences.
Thank you to Scott Hitchcock for recommending me this series thank you to my friend Lema who Buddy read the entire series with me thank you to Celeste who bestowed me the two omnibus of this series for my Xmas and birthday present.
Without them, I wouldn't have gotten around to reading this underrated series,

Series review:

A Shadow in Summer: sitelink ,/Stars

A Betrayal in Winter: sitelink /Stars

An Autumn War: sitelink .
/Stars

The Price of Spring: /Stars

Long Price Quartet: /Stars

You can find sitelinkthis and the rest of my Adult Epic/High Fantasy amp SciFi reviews at sitelinkBookNest Wow, great ending to a great series.
This one was almost a letdown after the last two, but it turned into more of a slow build with yet another great payoff.
That's a trademark of this series, the endings,

I'm a bit sad that I've finished this, While I didn't ever love it enough to quite give itstars, it came damn close, and it held that,star range beginning to end, The characters were a strong point too, many of them coming to full resolution here in the last book,

It really makes me look forward to Abraham's other fantasy series that starts with The Dragon's Path, as well as getting back with the series he coauthored as James S.
A. Corey, The Expanse, All four bookss.

I think the reason this series doesnt have an overall higher rating is because you need the context of a full life lived to understand all the nuances.
To be able to feel compassion for the flaws of characters who have made massive mistakes,

I dont think I would have liked this series at twenty something, I

didnt have the depth of experience, I hadnt learned enough compassion, At forty something I can appreciate it and feel empathetic towards the lives lived during this series,

If youre looking for excitement and battles this isnt your series even though there is some of that, The culture is Eastern. The interactions have the subtlety as such, Body language or poses as the books call it play a major part in it, I found that fascinating. The relationships and mistakes over the course of a lifetime change and take on new nuances as time goes by, The scorn you might have felt for a character in book two is replaced with empathy and a level of understanding in book four.


DA is simply the most elegant writer in the genre for me, When I hear people talk about the KingKiller Chronicles and how much they love the world because of his prose thats how I feel about this series and I dont see it with KingKiller.
Everything has shades in this story and its one of the most realistic to the real world Ive ever read,

Simply for me a top five alltime series, Finished this about a week ago, only now getting to the point where I no longer feel like sobbing, Brilliant series. WHAT an incredible end to this series! And I loved this whole series with how Abraham ties it all together all the way from book one that I'm going to go and increase myand.
star ratings on the other books toyes, Just like the Library of Allenxandria did because it DESERVES IT!!,

HIGHLY recommend this series for those who LOVE characters and character studies with a slowburn plot and low magic.
Also an Asianlike setting adds bonus points, :

The highest praise I can offer for the final volume of The Long Price Quartet is that the room was rather dusty as I finished it.
Few books can say this, Even books I like, to have the kind of emotional connection with any of the characters as I felt for the people in this book, it's just rare.


Then again, perhaps it's not surprising, Otah and Maati, still two of the important characters even though it's beenyears since the first book of the series, we have literally followed them through their whole lives.
They now stand opposite one another, taking differing views on how to salvage the world after the events at the close of the third volume events for which they both should shoulder blame, but which ultimately fell upon Maati, something that comes with a cost years later, which is the story of this fourth and final part of the quartet.


Often, though not always, the fantasy battle between magic and technology casts the magic as the romantic view of the past.
Abraham avoids this because the andat and what they can do and have done are just so terrible that, while the romanticism of the past is there, you just can't avoid their true legacy.
Maati stands for the old ways and traditions of the Khaiate, but what does that really mean People can be killed at will by unaccountable supreme beings.
Great harm is done when these andat are controlled by the wrong people, So the forces of technology at least, they have steam wagons and steam ships are the heroes of the tale because they are the ones who strive to bring an alliance out of the disaster that befell two peoples, to do the best they can to make whole what was done wrong.
Old enemies coming together for the common good of all their people, Now that's a romantic notion,

Wellwritten but not overwritten, The Price of Spring is, if not the best, one of the best concluding books to a fantasy series ever written.
The story rises and falls, at the same time a story that is intensely personal and focused on its characters, while also feeling larger than this, with worldshaking importance.
And as mentioned in the review of the previous volume, I have got to appreciate a fantasy author in my lifetime who conceives of a series of modest length, writes and publishes it in short order, keeps things tightly focused, doesn't let it spiral out of control, and finishes.


It is done, No years to wait for the next book, It is good. You should read it. .