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I did not expect to love this book so much, or at all. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

September 30, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

I really, really liked this. I was actually really nervous about this one because I did not like her first book, The Bone Season, when I read it years ago. It was by turns over- and under-written, and to me at least, was obviously written by someone still finding her writing voice. I was hoping that in the future she would write something else that would show her matured talents, and sure enough, that is exactly what happened. What a difference ten years can make […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr11bingo, epic fantasy, LGBTQIA, narfna, Samantha Shannon, standalone fantasy, the priory of the orange tree

narfna's CBR11 Review No:76 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr11bingo, epic fantasy, LGBTQIA, narfna, Samantha Shannon, standalone fantasy, the priory of the orange tree ·
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A lot of book, but worth it

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

July 25, 2019 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

This is not a small book. I read it on Kindle so I didn’t fully realize it, but The Priory of the Orange Tree is a solid 800 pages. This book could have been a pair of full-size novels. But having been impatiently waiting on George R.R. Martin to finish A Song of Ice and Fire, I’m not entirely mad that Shannon opted to wrap this all up in one go. Priory is standalone epic fantasy and boy is it epic. The novel covers continents and fills them with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Samantha Shannon

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:63 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Samantha Shannon ·
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