A review by mactimickey
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

I really loved this book overall, it only lost one star for me because it took about 500 pages for me to get really invested. For how long this book is, I dont think they spent enough time getting me emotionally involved in the characters before things started happening to them that I was supposed to care about. I did read the second half significantly faster than the first once I was invested, though. The lore is really fun and interesting and the characters all come together in a way that made me care about all of them even more than I did before. All of the characters are also very human with very human flaws. Not a single one of them is perfect and the author doesnt want you to think any of them are, and I really love that. Overall I would say it was worth the hype