The book takes place in your fairly standard fantasy continent where areas are nebulously defined by cardinal directions and you can map the various regions onto obvious historical analogues thus “the East” is a mish-mash of Japan and China, the South is based on Africa (at least going by the names), the West is renaissance faire sparkle-Europe and I didn’t get far enough to see what’s up North but I assume they’re Vikings or something. Seriously though, Priory got a fair bit of attention when it came out, partially because it’s a single-volume fantasy novel-something that’s never been the norm for the genre and is increasingly unusual now-and partially because it was frequently and breathlessly compared to Game Of Thrones, to which it in fact has basically no resemblance whatsoever except that both of them involve dragons (Shannon herself has described the book as “a feminist retelling of the story of St.
Why did I give up? Because it wasn’t very good. But Ronan, I hear you ask, you don’t finish most of the books you review! Why make a seperate series for it now? Shut up, that’s why!įor today’s entry in my acclaimed and popular review column we’re looking at last year’s The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, a book I got about 20% of the way through before giving up.
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