![]() ![]() Additionally, Ead practices magic, forbidden in Virtudom. According to Ead’s people, it was the woman who married the Saint, not the Saint, who vanquished the dragon. Ead is undercover as a convert but she rejects Sabran’s religion just as thoroughly as Sabran reject’s Ead’s. As long as Sabran’s house holds Inysh, the faith says, the Nameless One cannot rise again. Sabran’s people revere her as the descendent of a knight called the Saint, who sealed away a monstrous dragon called the Nameless One and began the religion of Virtudom. The first half borders on perfection, and while the second half isn’t as strong, on the whole it’s a gripping read.Įad, a member of the religious order called the Priory of the Orange Tree, has been sent to protect Sabran the Ninth, Queen of Inysh. ![]() At 848 pages, Samatha Shannon’s fantasy epic The Priory of the Orange Tree is a beast of a book, and a beast of an achievement. ![]()
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