An average of fifteen years passes between each of the Long Price’s four volumes, so the characters we are introduced to as teenagers in volume one are nearing the ends of their lives by the last. Because like mystery author of my youth, Danial Abraham also employs the big jump forward. And I’m not suggesting that those words aren’t apt, because they are, but for me only one descriptor truly applies melancholy. I've seen a lot of words getting used to describe these books: Underrated, amazing, masterpiece. Which brings me to Daniel Abraham’s Long Price quartet. I just couldn’t shake the feeling of melancholy. In my mind Price Dashing had exsisted in his prime, but now that memory was replaced by 80 year old dead Prince Dashing. It was just too sad, seeing the characters I had loved so much become old and weak.
It took me a long time to bring myself to return to the new trilogy, and I never was able to enjoy it fully. When you think about it, dying of natural-ish causes at 80 is pretty much the most anyone can ask for. Over ten years later and I still remember the specific details. This new trilogy opens with a courier announcing to a country town that the Prince from the first trilogy had died. The trilogy, among other things, followed Prince Dashing on various adventures until he saves the land and his lady love and lives happily every after.īut the author did not stop with just this trilogy, he went on to write many (many, many) more set in the same universe, one of which was set seventy or so years after the original trilogy. There was one character in particular I was very fond of, a dashing young prince. There was this fantasy series I loved like a mad thing when I was about fourteen or so, but I won’t say which one as I don’t want to spoil anyone.
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