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Samantha Shannon: The Priory of the Orange Tree (Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC) 3 stars

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

The House of …

Many nice ideas

3 stars

Many interesting ideas and some strong leading female characters, but the plot felt contrived at times or needlessly confusing, with inconsistencies (like distance and travel time), and some parts of the worldbuilding felt too simplistic -- also I wasn't too impressed with the quests for magic objects. Edit : also worth mentionning is that in the 800 pages, there really isn't much happening at the Priory of the title.