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El Priorato del Naranjo by Samantha Shannon

130 reviews

arlaubscher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and Trafficking

bkc's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it was exactly what I needed! Ead & Sabran are my favourite characters, but I really didn't like Niclays. The pacing was good and I enjoyed the tale. I usually hate books with heavy world-building but the author fed the information in naturally, so it was digestible. From what I gather, this book is like marmite and for me, it hit!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

pbeeandj's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Huge, epic, and gay. Quality animal and dragon friends to help our protagonists (I especially loved the Ichnuemon). All but one of the pov characters are POC. I wish I could watch this as a series. 5/5 stars and no notes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infertility, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

elissabrady's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The book reads more like a Netflix series than a fantasy book but it’s trill brilliant. I really enjoyed the visuals it stimulates and the storyline between Sab and Ead is beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and War

navierreads's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Classism

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

alexayres47's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Would have really loved this if it had been 300 pages shorter. Pretty slow to get going, hooked by the middle, and then lost steam towards the end. Great characters but as always with regular POV-swaps some were better fleshed-out than others. Overall a solid fantasy epic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcoholism and Pregnancy

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

• EPIC fantasy
• sapphic slow burn
• dragons
• fate/destiny
• battle against 'evil'

I honestly highly recommend reading A Day of Fallen Night first if you haven't. I believe SS recommends that you try and it does make ADOFN a bit of an uphill struggle with all the world building, but it pays off when you get to TPOTOT and you're just breezing on through (well... it's easier at least)!

My biggest critique of this book is the Niclays POV - I just did not care enough about him as a character and I felt his was the weakest POV and that side of the story could have been told differently. Also slight pacing issues as the end feels a bit rushed and doesn't match the pace of the rest of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Infertility, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

nurseamandarose's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

omnisyncd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Xenophobia, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Torture