You should consider me a lucky man.
As many of you know, I've been an admirer of Abraham's series for a while. As I said last year:
go buy this if you care about fantasy at all. Because Abraham needs good numbers to get more contracts to write more books we can all read and by which he can advance the quality and direction of the field.
An Autumn War builds on the first two books to deliver one of the most stunning punches I have ever seen in fantasy. I'll say this flat out: this novel deserves to be on all three major award ballots. It's gritty, wrenching, sad, and ultimately an incredibly human book. I won't deliver any spoilers, but An Autumn War is one of the most potent meditations I've ever seen on the costs of warfare, without a scrap of didacticism, while still being a story with profound emotional honesty, about people caring for their children and their countrymen.
This book will land