I finished The Price Of Spring at half past midnight last night. It made me cry a little in a good way, because it was a good ending. The end confrontation was also sufficient, so that makes for a book that I loved every frigging moment of.
In theory I should have had a lot more problems with the fifteen year time gap between the stories. Lots of writers haven’t been able to pull this off; characterization would become unstable, or there would be too many flashbacks to the periods in between. And while I honestly wasn’t such a big fan of Otah and Maati being so old in this book (that’s what you get after three timejumps of fifteen years), it was still done so tastefully. And there were new characters to love, too. The characterization was very strong.
It could be that I would have to think on this somewhat longer, but except for the somewhat slow start I really can’t think of anything I was unhappy with in this book. And even the slow start was needed to establish everything sufficiently before all hell would break loose. So yeah.
Daniel Abraham – The Price Of Spring = made of awesome!
Good…
So can I borrow it???
I’m looking forward to it and I’m sure Kat wants to read it as well…
I’ll bring it along tonight