![]() Lacking all of the complexities that I had been expecting. It was just lacking in all the things that I am drawn to in a fantasy. There was stuff in relation to the religion of the East and the West, but nothing about either location felt distinct. ![]() Maybe that's just me expecting too much from an eight-hundred page standalone to also push in the kind of world building that I am drawn to. ![]() Download Now : Downlload Now The Priory of the Orange Tree. I also felt that the world building left a lot to be desired. Ebook The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, 1) in English is available for free here. At times the characters seemed to be able to travel vast distances quickly and other times the narrative felt the need to give us pages upon pages of travel scenes. The momentum of the book was also just all over the place. Meanwhile the actual forward momentum of the book were from Ead or Loth's perspectives. They only showed up in moments that were couched in heavy foreshadowing or to do something that had been foreshadowed or was otherwise predictable. What I got were two perspectives that felt more like plot devices than they did characters. That's not really what I walked away getting. I wanted to enjoy this, judging by the reactions my friends were having in their buddy read I thought I was signing up for a tour de force of fantasy excellence. ![]() ![]() Content warnings: sexual assault, incest, miscarriage, general fantasy violence. ![]()
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