The Priory of the Orange Tree

I really wanted to love this book. I heard some people say it's a 5/5, and others say it's a 0/5. Unfortunately, it landed smack dab in the middle for me. 

Ultimately this was a mediocre book that was hindered further by an atrocious narrator. I only pushed past like 15% because I was reading it with 2 friends.

At 225k words, this book was the same length as Best Served Cold, and had roughly the same number of POV characters, so I feel like I can compare them a little here:

There is no comparison. 

I didn't care about any of the characters, story elements were dropped, the plot was generic and stretched out to fill pages, and while the narrator's “narrating” voice was actually quite pleasant, her voices for the male characters, dragons, and even one female character were just horrific.

She even managed to mess up a line in the last 10% that COMPLETELY changed the meaning of the sentence, and after a double take, I pulled up the ebook to check who messed up.

All that said, I did manage to enjoy the middle 50-60% somehow, the world was cool I guess? But ultimately I'm probably going to forget all about this one, except for the Emperor who was apparently from Texas.