.LacyMB reviews say_shannon's Priory of the Orange Tree prequel ADayOfFallenNight, a sprawling, female-focused epic that's everything great about the fantasy genre.
series—which, by the way, is excellent!—with its spunky heroine, deadly otherworldly beings from another dimension, and agonizingly slow-burn central romance, but it was the release of heranything
in the world of fantasy. A massive, old-school thousand-page epic about dragons and magic and secret sisterhoods of powerful sorceresses,is female-focused fantasy at its absolute best. In fact, the only possible complaint about the book is that it was a standalone story, which meant that readers had to say goodbye to the intensely detailed, fascinating world that Shannon’s book built on its final page.isn’t a sequel or a continuation of the story we read in.
Literally spread across the four corners of the world — the four cardinal directions alert you to what area of the map you’re entering at the top of each chapter—-the story is encompass nearly a half dozen main characters whose journeys all inevitably connect .
In the East, a young woman named Dumai lives on a vast mountain peak and trains as a godsinger, a human with a unique connection to the dragons her people worship but who have slept for centuries. In the South, Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory of the Orange Tree, an order of female warrior mages tasked with preparing for the Nameless One’s inevitable return.
While the initial presence of so many POV characters could field unwieldy or even unconnected in the hands of a lesser writer, Shannon never lets us forget that these seemingly disparate characters are all pieces in service of a larger story that draws the strands of their fates inexorably towards one another.
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