First of all - the book has a lot of great *ideas*, but it fails to breath much life into them.įor instance, I liked the concepts involved in the worldbuilding: cultures divided by deep religious differences, myths that are subjected to questionable interpretations, conflicts between the "good" (or not-so-bad) guys while the one true evil looms at the horizon.
Now of course personal enjoyment is highly subjective, but I'd like to mention some glaring issues that I think aren't strictly a matter of taste (SPOILERS AHEAD, READ ON AT YOUR OWN PERIL). it's not a book about queerness, it's a classic high fantasy where queer people exist because they do), but other than that it didn't left me with much. I appreciate the way it plays around with classic tropes and the fact it has queer characters without it being a big deal (i.e.
okay? Not terrible, but far from a masterpiece or even a memorable novel. I read "The Priory of the Orange Tree" with fairly high expectations, given the amount of praise it received in most reviews.
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