The Priory of the Orange Tree

most anticlimactic final fight ive ever read. i did enjoy it though even if the pacing REALLY starts to suffer towards the end. i feel like it would have been better to split this into a trilogy or something. also people are NOT lying about the first 100 or so pages being a slog... once you get past that it's a lot more enjoyable to read in my opinion.

favourite character/POV was ead & her POV was definitely the author's favourite too LOL. the other narrators don't get as much attention as they should have, especially tané. can't help but feel that niclays was unneeded. loth is fine.

worldbuilding is cool, but the east feels a little caricature-y at times. for the west, i like the whole ‘religion founded upon a questionable myth' thing. the concept of the priory is really cool too.

overall it's a pretty good book even though i have my gripes with it. may or may not read the prequel