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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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My experience with The Priory of the Orange Tree perfectly illustrates the pitfalls of reading on a tablet. I was happily reading along, thinking how much I was enjoying this book with its refreshingly updated take on fantasy, when all of a sudden, I thought, “Hmm. I’ve been reading this for a long time now and I still don’t know where any of this is going.” It was then that I checked and realized I’d been reading for at least two weeks, and was only […]

Room Enough to Spread a Dragon’s Wings?

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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  The Priory of the Orange Tree is a kind of book that might be as rare as hen’s teeth these days: it’s an epic fantasy story full of magic and dragons that happens to be a standalone novel rather than just one part of a sprawling series. This is not to say that the story contained within the novel isn’t substantial; at over 800 pages, The Priory of the Orange Tree sits somewhere between A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords in […]

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

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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 […]



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