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The Priory of the Orange Tree
848 pages (~21 hr)26h 0m
First published 2019·Fantasy
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. Samantha Shannon's standalone epic fantasy weaves together the stories of a dragonrider, a mage, a queen, and a spy in a world...
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Third Person178
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Multiple POV (3-5)167
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Large Cast (5-10)156
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Sprawling Setting140
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Epic Fantasy178
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Adventurous134
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Still processing this one. The structure — God, the structure. How do you write a novel that's simultaneously about a single afternoon and the entire history of a consciousness? Woolf doesn't stream consciousness, she IS consciousness on the page.
Need to sit with this longer before I can rate it. Every time I think I've landed on a tier it shifts.
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