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lenna_parfait 's review for:
The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
DID NOT FINISH
DFN in the first 50 page.
Maybe it is by the size of the book, but this one felt like it was not going anywhere at all. The story seem to have a slow start where they throw at you hundred of names (and not just names but names and surnames of the characters) making it very hard to track even the main heroes. The slow start would be alright if not for the fact that this book has around 4 characters to follow.
I usually don't talk about the prose, as the words are only the means of the transport to the thoughts and world, but here I have been pulled away multiple times from the story stopping at some of the sentences that looked like they did not belong.
Maybe it is by the size of the book, but this one felt like it was not going anywhere at all. The story seem to have a slow start where they throw at you hundred of names (and not just names but names and surnames of the characters) making it very hard to track even the main heroes. The slow start would be alright if not for the fact that this book has around 4 characters to follow.
I usually don't talk about the prose, as the words are only the means of the transport to the thoughts and world, but here I have been pulled away multiple times from the story stopping at some of the sentences that looked like they did not belong.