The Priory of the Orange Tree is a feminist story, with women in leads roles. In the East they are revered as gods, while in the West they are feared due to the haunting history of the Nameless One, an evil dragon who has been locked away for a thousand years in the Abyss and kept there by the bloodline of the Queendom of Inys, ruled by the Berethnet matriarchy. It was too bad it wasn't able to be way different than our world though? This book isn't necessarily doing a lot of things that feel new, but it's taking tropes of the high fantasy genre and using them in interesting ways. I still largely had fun while reading this. Sabran's duty was whittled down to begetting heirs, and though her exhaustion and looming mortality were wearing her down, and her humanity slowly chipped away with rumors of divinity, she refused to exist like a bird bred inside a gilded cage. Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo.
5 stars which I feel most comfortable with. An ancient enemy awakens. Shannon also employs multiple narrative voices in The Priory of the Orange Tree. And it takes them being faced with calamity to stop seeing the world through such a narrowed lens and learn to come together on the other side of their differences. As you've probably already garnered from the above summary, the scope of The Priory of The Orange Tree is majestic, brimming with detail and ideas and teeming with characters, languages, and perspectives. They are trying to be better people, more worthy people. The book changes POVs from place to place instead of character, so you get glimpses of what is going on in the East, West and South as the story progresses.
For me the most fascinating element is the remarkably crafted world for which the author considerately writes, "The fictional lands of The Priory of the Orange Tree are inspired by events and legends from various parts of the world.
Shannon's astonishing achievement is her ability to breathe impossible life into new religions, histories, and conflicts and create a world so old and layered that she's been called "the female George R. R. Martin, " even as her work lacks his noted dark ruthlessness and has me in disagreement. Book spoilers below, read with caution. There were a few more style issues of similarly minor extent after that point, almost as though the copy editor had been getting close to the weekend by the time they hit those last few chapters, and they just wanted to go home.
When I finally had the time to dive in I was pleased to find the writing style to be beautiful and easy to read. Dazzling and now we can sing that song!!!. Truyde the sharp little fox. Maybe I haven't read enough books? )
"Piety can turn the power-hungry into monsters. And Shannon told me all of this without boring or confusing me. The cover design is awesome with the colors and Dragon and it being shiny! And if I have already decided to trust the author (as I did at the end of reason #3), then this interesting event closes the decision-making loop for me, and makes continued reading not only an obvious choice, but a priority. Nor is it, I suspect, lost on Shannon either, who pours so much tenderness, care and attention into her story and characters. The other things that bothered me were fairly minor but I'm curious to see if anyone else felt the same. Romance less exciting than copulating whales and not a single guy to fall for. "And I hope you will also accept mine. A queen who doesn't want to conceive although it's her to be or not to be; a girl who spent her whole life to earn the red cloak of a slayer and refuses it because; a dragon rider who was not told anything about dragons by her teachers; a gal able to win marital duels in a full Victorian dress; the living Kinder Surprise Egg (now, that was rich! Shannon weaved a beautiful web from Eastern and Western mythology, and infused it with this badass womanly energy that makes me so excited to see the ripple effect. This, I've come to realize, is the hallmark of a great book. 2) I have like 7 other library books to pick up and I'll need some serious upper body strength to carry them along with this beast. 848 pages, Kindle Edition. Some time ago on Fantasy Buddy Reads, we have had this awesome discussion about the best titles.
A rarity in high fantasy books. Perhaps that could have fit into the existing book, or perhaps not. We still have time for airy hopes. But this fact is not treated like an oddity. Tané's character development is as masterful and as deeply affecting as Ead's and Sabran's.
Too much context and humans get bored. This policy applies to anyone that uses our Services, regardless of their location. And I want to talk about each of them: Queen Sabran the Ninth carries herself like a woman used to having her words listened to and acted upon instantly. Still, I encourage all of you to buy and read it. When it comes to dragons, my all-time favorite books are "Dragon and Thief", "Iron Dragon's Daughter", "Seraphina" and "Eragon". I just felt so detached and that put a damper on my experience. Roos and Tané aim at some sort of character development, but one is just a victim of circumstance and the other goes through a personality flip in the grand finale and the post-coital (plot-wise, naturally) change of character does not come as plausible at all. They believe that Cleolind (known as the Damsel to Inys) was the one who first bound the nameless one rather than Galian.
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