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The Priory of the Orange Tree
- Narrateur(s): Liyah Summers
- Durée: 25 h et 52 min
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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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-24
Absolutely stunning
The best book I've ever listened to / read. Beautiful prose with an expansive world and plot. Narrator is fantastic and the story brilliant.
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- MPed
- 2019-03-20
Amazing book!
I was sick and couldn't read for a couple of weeks. Somehow, I managed to download audible, and The Priory of the Orange Tree and I was blown away by this brilliantly constructed tale of adventure, magic, love and growth. I admit it took me a few chapters to get used to all the characters and places, but the captivating story soon took me over.
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- abw033
- 2022-01-30
Great narration, engaging story
The narrator made it easy to feel immersed in the world of the book -- the different voices/accents for different characters were effective, particularly for the main characters.
The story delivered what I wanted, which was a sort of classic fantasy world to sink into and enjoy, written from a more modern/feminist lens. There were some moments where certain thematic points were expressed in an on-the-nose way, but overall I felt engaged in the story and found it easy to suspend my disbelief. I'd recommend it to someone looking for an enjoyable contemporary fantasy read
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- sosa
- 2022-06-06
long story
it got a bit confusing at the beginning with the world building and trying to understand everything but it all came together at the end.
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- CKH Vancouver
- 2022-12-20
Epic Fantasy - Dragons, Pirates, Queens, Intrique
Slow starting epic fantasy. I do wonder if it would have worked better split into two (or even three) books. This book is a bit confusing at first, with all the names and situations, locales, etc but it does pick up. I stayed up until 3am to finish the last 4 hours - the battles were so well written, so easy to visualise, it just galloped along at the end (but I was disatisfied with the ending, I thought it could have been a bit more fleshed out).
So much to love in this book - Ead's love story (a love between two complicated women, in a complex situation) and Tana's struggles to be a dragon rider. There is a lot of political intrigue (and religious intrigue) which is my catnip so I thoroughly enjoyed that.
I did like the narrator and the bold accent choices - which ranged from accents that sounded like they were South East States, Carribean, African, etc to differentiate where they originally hailed from.
I really appreciated this being a standalone novel
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2022-12-30
Very good
A very good high fantasy novel. The other reviews regarding the complexity of the names and characters in the world building as challenging to follow are correct but it’s honestly worth pushing through that as once you get to know them it’s an amazing story. The narration was also great in my opinion
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- J
- 2021-10-26
Interesting world, a good ride
I took a while to get into it and even then my interest was more in the general happenings rather than any of the characters that much, but the world was interesting and none of the plot developments made me roll my eyes as dumb contrivance. There was a goal, pieces moving towards the goal, and no idiot ball setbacks (people did do dumb things at times but not out of character). I was interested enough in the setting to wish some parts/people/endings were more fleshed out but I don’t regret staying on for the whole ride and I’ll remember this world happily.
Narrator is mostly great and though two particular character voices didn’t work well imho neither was very prominent.
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- Andrea S. England
- 2022-12-29
So much potential- needed tighter editing
This book has a lot of potential, with an interesting premise, engaging characters and diverse cultures. However, the tale was let down by poor editing- there seemed to be long portions where very little happened to progress the story and the narrative started to drag. The conclusion was lacklustre and unclear.
The narrator is fine, but again the reading suffers from poor editing- there are lots of mispronunciations which become very irritating and intrude on the story. I loved the array of accents and distinctive voices for each character, but occasionally these get muddled which confuses the story. It would have been great to rerecord these errors rather than hoping the listener simply wouldn’t notice them.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2023-09-22
Slow to start but if your patient it becomes amazing
I really wish this book was not narrated by just 1 person, there are just so many characters that it gets confusing even with different accents.
The book is extremely long but well written, I almost gave up after the first few hours because there was just so many characters & mini stories going on that I was getting overwhelmed not knowing what was going on if anything.
But if you are patient enough to keep going the story is amazing!
I had heard I was a feminist version of lord of the rings, but this book is so much better!
The book is progressive having a characters presently or in the past having had same sex relationships, not shying away from their struggles.
The book in a roundabout way confronts religion & race trying to set their differences aside to come together for the greater good.
There’s so much to this world, and lots of great mini stories.
This book has everything. Action, adventure, love, loss, backstabbing, blackmail, friendship, redemption, good Vs evil… did I mention Dragons!!
I highly recommend this book and I’m going to start the next book now which I believe is a prequel
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2023-03-01
Some Good Ideas
Really fun world-building. However, the main character is extremely flat and hyper-competent with no flaws. The other characters are likewise.
This is a clever early effort by a young writer, but severely under-cooked
Reader has four accents: Yorkshire, American, Jamaican, and African. She uses these for characters who unquestionably should not have these accents. No accents would be preferable.
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