4.43 AVERAGE


OH MY FUCK I HAVENT FELT A HIGH LIKE THIS SINCE ROXXXY ANDREWS’S WHIP MY HAIR WIG REVEAL!!!

Do you love gay people of all different races/ages/cultures being gay, but also there’s dragons?? READ THIS BOOK.

It’s 850 pages of the craziest world-building I’ve ever read in my lifeeee and the author thankfully took all my qualms from the first book and stepped her pussy up to make this incredible prequal!!

But this book also gets fucking deeep mama like she explores generational trauma, and bodily autonomy, and duty vs individuality, and nature’s cycles of destruction… and also ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE HOT AND GAY!!!

And lastly, as someone who normally HATES romance, this book had multiple gay/lesbian love stories that almost made me cry which is a big deal cuz I never cry cuz I’m too hot and skinny to cry!!!

HAPPY LAST DAY OF PRIDE GO BE GAY AND READ THIS BOOK!!!
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Better pacing than TPOTOT, but aside from that 
adventurous sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

 " ‘He could be good. I remember.’
‘Believe he was born rotten, or that something rotted him. Either way, he was a churl – but it might help if the world was different. We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them,’ Thrit said, with a bitter flinch of his mouth, ‘but perhaps it’s too soon for that. Perhaps it will take the end of the world.’ "

"I always felt when I was a teenager that there was going to be this switch that came on at some point that told me that I was going to suddenly want to be in a relationship and get married and have children, and there's a moment in Glorian's narrative where she says something like, 'she wished she were like a swan or a wolf, possessed of an instinct to partner for life,' and she talks about how it would be so much easier if she could want as others did ..." [from the author's interview] 
adventurous emotional inspiring tense 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: Complicated

This book had been sitting on my shelf for more than a year before I finally gathered the courage to start reading it - she is girthy..

I loved the Priory of the Orange Tree, and I honestly didn’t expect to like this book anywhere near as much. While the story started of rather slow, it really snuck up on me. Samantha managed to tell this story in a way that builds a love for it and it’s main characters quietly and slowly, but also fiercely and all at once.

I ended up loving it as much as, if not more than, TPOTOT. I can confidently say, that it has become one of my favourite books, and I will definitely be rereading it more than once in the future.
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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
adventurous slow-paced
dark 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

So good! I just love the world that Samantha Shannon created.
adventurous emotional 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