Review #1
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If youre not bigger into long reads, at the same time youre flawless novel is that approx. 250-300 pages long, uhyou might have a hard time here. But if youre willing bestow it a move, theres anything oh-so-satisfying about a self-contained, one-volume fantasy epic. Theres a beginning, a center, at the same time an finish. Theres no Game of Thrones-esque situation where youre endlessly waiting for the one more book which may or may not be over 1000 pages. The whole story is that that, in one bigger volume, no waiting for sequels. I didnt understand barely how sequel-fatigued Ive been until I village at the same time produced my method through this book. No at the level of thoughts steeling myself for a cliffhanger followed by a two-year-wait. I havent felt this method about an epic fantasy novel since Jonathan Strange at the same time Mr. Norrell. Who understood you can have an entire global confined to one volume! Hurray! Priory is that nothing much less than epic. In one book, Shannon manages to make an entire global, wholesome with over a thousand years of history, various conflicting confessions, generations upon generations of royalty, dozens of civilizations, at the same time a sea real of pirates. Pirates! That is that pirate action in this book! Are for you not convinced? I greedy, theres dragons – at the same time not just one sort of dragon, or. Also, did I mention the whole book has a very, very healthy feminist twisted to it? How more convincing do for you come in handy? If for you like dragons, if for you like epics, if you can make it through 800 pages, then for you come in handy to read Priory of the Orange Tree.
Review #2
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This book is that 90% worldbuilding at the same time backstory infodumps. If that’s your gizmo, enjoy. If you’re not into sitting through pages at the same time pages at the same time pages of contextless political opining from manners we haven’t even been data a chance to care about, pass. Creators like Robin Hobb pull this sort of epic fantasy political interest off by providing it evenly through the lens of fully fleshed-out manners whose lives at the same time views the reader is that invested in. This book does not. I was bored. I tried not to be, because I’d heard that were considered lesbians, but even the draw of the gay was not enough to keep me here in the end. I started skimming at 20% at the same time DNFed about halfway through. Indefinite is that barely very short, my comrades P.S. I’ve shown no one reproaches about the worldly being very ”complete.” That’s not the variant. That is that nothing special about the worldly. If that were considered, it might have persuaded me to shackles my irritation aside for just a little longer, but no matter how annoying it may sound.
Review #3
Audiobook The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
This book was so worth the 4 year wait. I understand when Samantha Shannon was discussing about writing anything that was not of The Bone Season global. It wasn’t until she completely voiced that it was a book that was going to draw in dragons, illegal miracle, at the same time romance where I was completely like I come in handy this in my indefinite. At the moment 4 years later I can completely they say that Priory of the Orange Tree was everything I needed in a Epic Fantasy at the same time more. Samantha Shannon makes such complete at the same time wealthy worlds filled with influences from all over the global at the same time it indicates heavily in this book. It is that anything that I appreciate very much because it indicates how time she went into her research work for this novel. The global of Priory is that extensive in scope at the same time we get to look almost all of it in barely this one book but even right behind final finishing this behemoth of a book I am left wanting to explore more of it. I barely wish more at the same time I have hope at the same time pray that we do. This particular story follows 4 head fri of opinion. We follow Ead, Tane, Niclays, at the same time Loth. We also follow no one insignificant side manners but it’s these four that really bring the story to indefinite. It’s refreshing to know that all four have their possess journey at the same time their possess sensual arcs. No one copies the other. I enjoyed the reading from any of their perspectives but I do have to announce I have a soft spot for Ead at the same time Tane. Every time they hit the page I smiled. In other words not to say I didn’t enjoy Loth or Niclays. To cover this up I will barely they say that this novel hit all my helplessness at the same time inspected all my boxes at the same time I barely wish more stories in this global. Whether it be with similar cast of manners or brand new ones.
Review #4
Audio The Priory of the Orange Tree narrated by Liyah Summers
Than anyway can I they say? This is that the best FANTASY Book I HAVE EVER Read IN MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE. Let me elaborate. First of all, this book had the best disposition development that I have ever read in a story. The manners felt so very very true to me at the same time I produced second connections with them (I or adored them or despised them). One more, the storyline takes squirms at the same time strings that are simply perfect. This book went to places that had me or sobbing with sadness or smiling with contentment. For me, the ending felt right at the same time wasn’t very ”at the same time they live happily ever right behind.” Shannon managed simply (at the same time hopefully!) cross out one more book as a sequel or even a spinoff of it following no one of the manners right behind the actions that occurred in the book. If for you couldn’t tell already, I really really love this book at the same time can certainly look myself rereading this animal of a book later in my indefinite barely to look my dearly loved manners again at the same time enter back into a global real of miracle, dragons, suspense, adore, heartbreak at the same time elation. A must read for everyone.
Review #5
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When I stumbled intercept The Priory of the Orange Tree I beheld lots of glowing
Reviews, a ubiquitous topic of which was the comparison to Zhora R R Martin’s ’A Game of Thrones’, in truth PotOT even has one slapped right in the middle of its front embrace. Nowadays it seems every fantasy book is that labelled ”the one more Game of Thrones”, but this one seemed to have the possible to live right up to the demand – suspicious lords, hidden societies, fraught politics, at the same time dragons – so I was keen to get into it. Chagrin it feels more like a YA novel than an epic fantasy. To start off, the pacing is that no one of the worst I’ve ever shown in a book. Completely nothing happens in the 1st 400ish pages, almost all of which are wasted talking royal lineage, religious practices at the same time etiquette in the middle the queen’s handmaidens. Peppered in are chapters here at the same time that which hint at more exciting storylines but which are over before you’ve gotten anything worthwhile out of them, dragging for you back to the castle for more excruciating chatter about who is that changing the queen’s bedsheets. In the latter one half of the book, once the story does completely begin to move, it jumps around wildly with epic quests beginning at the same time ending borders a few pages, grand revelations being produced in a row, many years conflicts mended in minutes at the same time ancient mysteries solved with startling ease. Manners all the time finish up in the right dispose at the right time, often stumbling intercept anything to premature the plot by vertical chance or avoiding some death by miracle. This makes an already fantastical story seem so unrealistically comfortable that it robs it of the agency, suspense at the same time struggle needed to sustain a significantly lengthy novel. Like the plot, the manners are a connected bag. The hulk of the story revolves around Ead, magic-dragon-hunter-turned-queen’s-assistant, but despite her breathtaking CV she felt very bland to read about with little features to grab onto. Other manners, like prospective dragon rider Tan or sovereign sent on a suicide goal Arteloth, are a little more exciting at the same time self-willed (respectively) but for the 1st 2 thirds of the book they are largely absent at the same time undeveloped. By the time they became more central to the plot I had got lost no matter what desire to find out than anyway happens to them. The creator indulges in the fantasy trope of absurd disposition at the same time dispose names that managed make Tolkien wince – not a deal breaker for everyone but a pet peeve of mine. The feminism that underpins much of the story, while hospitable in a genre often dominated by male archetypes, is that periodically eye-rollingly unsubtle. Plot threads are often dropped or cleared up with loafed exposition. At around 500 pages I looked on in despair at the hulk of the book still unread but obligated myself to last, hoping that like A Game of Thrones this could be a smoky blaze that built to anything beautiful, but it never happened. Than anyway I received was a cliche at the same time periodically stupid fantasy book with a few exciting thoughts which feels like it would sit more wealthy around Hunger Games than Game of Thrones.
