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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

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Finally an epic fantasy without the man author BS

It was so relaxing and enjoyable to read a book where woman characters were not objectified every time they enter a room or even move slightly. Coupled with excellent representation of queer relationships, normalising of women in protector and leader roles, a rich and intriguing fantasy world and an incredibly versatile narrator, it's a phenomenal read.

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Great story

I liked this book but the readers voices were weird. And she read too fast for the most part. I thought I’d accidentally put the speed up to begin with. I also struggled with characters, I felt there lacked character development for most. Having said tat I did enjoy it.

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wonderful story! terrible narration.

Just god-awful narration. Usually I get used to a narrator with an off putting voice eventually, but I just could NOT with this reader! Why did half the characters have carribean cartoon-pirate accents? especially the ones who live in a culture inspired by ancient Japan... a great story though.

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Complex

It’s worth it, once you understand who is who. Had to re-listen 2 beginning again once I realised who the characters were.

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Great story, but narrator was awful

I found some characters really difficult to listen to, to the point where I wanted to fast forward any scenes with them (looking at you, Golden Empress). The characters were all well written, it was the performance that was super annoying. I did have some trouble at the beginning working out who was where, but once I got into it, I really enjoyed the story. Such a shame that the narration let it down.

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POA: Not a Narrator for the sound sensitive.

I really can’t handle the narration, since I paid for the book I have tried to listen to this several times over the past 6months but I just can’t stand the narrator,
It sounds like she has a really bad cold or maybe just need a to swallow a few times and she is so aggressive with pronouncing any S’s that she could have been a snake in another life.

This honestly might not be a problem for others but if your ADHD and are sound sensitive this narrator is your worst nightmare

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Great book, poor performance

The performance of this book’s male characters and dragons was horrendous and made me want to stop listening.

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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.

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

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loved it!

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.

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Great story, great performance

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.

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