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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and Trafficking

mushroomfrog's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Medical content, Murder, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Confinement

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Vomit

lizziea229's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

It’s basically game of thrones for teens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

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

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

cameronreads's review

5.0

I don’t know how this book managed to surpass my expectations but it did by leaps and bounds. A perfect world, magic system, writing style, structure, and cast of characters. I was convinced I’d be saying it was too long, but if anything it could have been longer - I would spend forever in this incredible world with these life like characters. Loved this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Dementia, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Torture

laraveliants's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”

THIS BOOK!!!! The size of it intimidated the hell out of me, but I’m so happy I finally picked it up. The world-building and the lore were absolutely wonderful and expansive. Some parts felt slow in the beginning, but Samantha Shannon’s writing kept me interested. As everything started to unravel and connect, I became more and more hooked on the book. 

The characters made me go through different journeys with varying goals; I loved every second of it. Every adventure and every fight had me sitting straight because I never knew what would happen next.

After finishing this, I can say with my whole chest that The Priory of the Orange Tree truly deserves its hype. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

micaelacccc's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

Absolutely beautiful, I loved it so much!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Blood, Murder, and Death

Minor: Death of parent and Adult/minor relationship

maddalynmoon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Classism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Torture, War, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Infertility, and Infidelity

m4rtt4's review

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to like this so bad, but instead I was thrown into the biggest reading slump ever and every time I picked up this book I wanted to dnf it. The world-building was very fascinating in its depth, which also unfortunately made it difficult to get into the story; I was about 300 pages in when I finally felt like I was sucked into the world — 300 pages, a whole book length! Then I was hooked for about 200 pages, after which the story began to drag on and on again. Idk if it was just me, but even in the end I was not entirely sure of everyone's roles and relationships, despite there literally being a character guide in the book.. 
If you like detailed fantasy worlds with diverse cultures and an extremely slowly burning plot (with even smaller and slower sprinkles of queer relationships), this might be just the right book for you. If you like anything concise, consider skipping.

Spoiler

The romance between Ead and Sabran was one of the few things that kept me going <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage