The Priory of the Orange Tree

De: Samantha Shannon

Narrado por: Liyah Summers

A world divided.
A queendom without an heir.
An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

©2017 Bloomsbury (P)2019 Audible, Ltd

Slowed down the narration...

Usually I speed up narration, but for some reason (narrators cadence) or just the writing; made me slow it down so I could enjoy it?

Good but not great

The story is creative and fresh but a lot of it was predictable. It also took me over half the book to get invested in it. The performance was 80% excellent and 20% strange choices for voices.

Wonder through world as a disembodied ghost

There is a plot, their are characters but I feel bored and a bit lost. There seem to never be any actions. The ladys might make up the queen and their is a description of the dress and jewelry but not of the effect. The character are "angry" or "pleased" but not described acting or of their expression. There is little trying to build picture of the religions of the world but yet their riffs are described as political problems.

The narrator did a good job keeping the voices clear for who was speaking.and injection some personality in the story.

I think this book could be rewritten to be interesting. Twenty something chapters in I am done.

Amazing narrator!

The narrator is the best part of this experience. The story is enjoyable but the voiced characters are the best.

Close to terrible.

Poorly plotted pedestrian prose. Too many characters which are poorly differentiated both in the story and by the Narrator. Too many mispronounced words.