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The Priory of the Orange Tree

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Liyah Summers
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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 Coming of Age Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Magic
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The story can be difficult to follow with so many characters and places. I believe the book had illustrated maps which would be helpful but don't come with the audiobook

no access to maps

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Enjoyed this story. Good plot and characterisation. Took a bit of effort to follow the world described.

Good story!

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A fantastic story about dragons and medieval politics tarnished by horrific accents and childish voices.
if you can push past that then it's a great read

Great Story, Awful Reading

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Very good narrator but not probably not the best choice for this book. A lot of people are complaining about the narration and mispronunciation of certain words. This I feel is very unfair to the narrator and displaying some ignorance on the listeners part. The "mispronunciation" is due to the narrators accent and not her ability to correctly narrate a story.

The story itself was interesting and entertaining. I did feel the charecters lacked any depth and continued to martyr themselves as well as displaying a level of meloncoley which got I little irritating after a few hours of listening.

Overall I would recommend. The concept was interesting and I was entertained throughout.

Overall a good read

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chapter 1, you are jumped between 3 different people in different parts of the world. Also it starts with a lady freaking out about an unknown ceremony. but don't worry they eventually get to the dragons. the dragons are cool. I like the overall story but some of the smaller details were unneeded. the author labours the point in some place and in others the scene shifts with out much explanation leaving me confused. Also people can travel really fast and there is a lot of "how convenient"

A world spanning tale of magic and dragons

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So wonderful. The story is so intricate and the world building so immersive you barely notice the time go by as you listen. The story captured me instantly, the mystery in entrancing and feeds you information at the perfect pace. Liyah Summers narrated this beautifully. I loved the different accents and her voice is very soothing and easy to listen to. She told the tale as beautifully as it was written. 5 stars with no question.

A Beautiful Story Performed Just As Beautifully

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The Audio book story starts with no context. I haven't read either of the hard copy books and remained lost on the audiobooks storyline for the first hour. This may be the reason i found the narration didnt capture my attention. Personally i think slightly longer pauses, to signify a different character speaking but then again I didn't continue to read the book the rest of the book. It has many great reviews so possibly only my experience.

No start up context

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I loved it and also thought Liyah did a great job with so many characters to pit her voice to.

I eagerly looked forward to getting into a new fantasy and it didn’t let me down. I already have the 2nd book in my library.

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Book was hard to get into but the accents were fantastic once I got over the idea that accents had to belong somewhere!
A nice self contained story that didn't linger too much anywhere and the pacing was consistent.

loved it!

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I loved this book for the first minute to the last. Wonderful performance for the narrater, really loved the characters, the story and the way it is written.

Great story, great performance

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