Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

191 reviews

annamay1021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Religious bigotry

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

alexschrade's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

One of the best books, I've read in a while. One of those book where you can imerge yourself in the story and it feels like you're watching everything with your own eyes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Murder

ahart_4's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.75

Shannon did not disappoint. The attention to detail in this story was impeccable. There were so many things happening throughout but it all came together and made sense. The first half of the book is a lot of world and plot building. Once you get to the second half things become more intense, but nothing can compare to everything that happens within the last 100-200 pages of the book. 

Spoiler

One thing I noticed though was that throughout this whole story the main antagonist was the Nameless One. Every character in this book knew of him and were afraid of his return. However, He didn't show up in the book until like page 773 out of 804. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the differences between countries and regions in regard to the religion was focused on a lot throughout the book and the Nameless One is more like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation. I also did not understand in the second to last chapter when Tane went to Komoridu and fell asleep and woke up with a white butterfly in her hands and blood on her side. Where did the blood come from???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Murder, and Infertility

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

mmccombs's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

An immersive, thrilling, lush read! After the 200 page mark, I was off to the races hoping to unfold the mystery and action as fast as I could. I really enjoyed Ead, Tane, and Loth’s POVs, and loved all of the dragon content.

I do think this should have been split into multiple books (the instant gratification of reading the whole story at once rather than waiting for installments was satisfying! But!!), the pacing was really uneven and the world building learning curve was steep. I would have liked to spend more time learning about The Priory and Lasia and also some of the other nations we didn’t cover,

Spoiler

I think that would have made the conclusion and eventual coming together of leaders more impactful

. And that could only really be done by having more books to deeply explore places where we only skipped over them (and maybe spend less time in some of the more boring, menial Inys stuff). I also deeply disliked Niclays Roos’ chapters (tbh I kinda skimmed them sorry), I think his character could have been completely removed and we would have had the same impact. The ending felt so rushed compared to the rest of it, so spending more time there would have also been nice.

All in all, this was a wonderful fantasy novel that felt daunting at first but quickly became a story a couldn’t put down. Great characters, action, and world-building, I can’t wait to get to the prequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gore, and War

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

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

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

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