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A review by entazis
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Two things that I asbolutely loved in this novel:
a) THE relationship everyone is talking about. The total sapphic slow burn awesomeness of two very powerful women. Secrets, yearning, bodyguard trope, forbidden love (because one is a queen, so there's a class divide). Just perfect.
b) The fact that the chivalry code is turned into a religion. The clever way the author used and subverted the princess and the dragon and dragonslayer tropes. As a person who loves these motifs in fairytales and had a whole lecture on the topic I enjoyed this worldbuilding immensely.
I had some things I didn't like, but over all I was fully immersed in the story and it was hard to stop listening to the audiobook.
a) THE relationship everyone is talking about. The total sapphic slow burn awesomeness of two very powerful women. Secrets, yearning, bodyguard trope, forbidden love (because one is a queen, so there's a class divide). Just perfect.
b) The fact that the chivalry code is turned into a religion. The clever way the author used and subverted the princess and the dragon and dragonslayer tropes. As a person who loves these motifs in fairytales and had a whole lecture on the topic I enjoyed this worldbuilding immensely.
I had some things I didn't like, but over all I was fully immersed in the story and it was hard to stop listening to the audiobook.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Grief, Medical trauma