The Priory of the Orange Tree
Eight hundred pages of dragon politics across two hemispheres that disagree about whether dragons are gods or vermin. A standalone in the sense that it resolves completely, with a slow sapphic romance threaded through the middle of it. On the House's scale it rates 2 for spice (warm), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Fourth Wing readers who want dragons with far more worldbuilding and far less spice.
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How it rates
- Author
- Samantha Shannon
- Series
- The Roots of Chaos, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 2 out of 5, Warm2/5 · Warm
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Two continents divided by a thousand years of religious disagreement
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 848
On the spice rating One or two brief scenes. The romance is understated relative to the book's length. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, plague, death, war.
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