Priory of the Orange Tree: The Number One Bestseller
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(For some reason, the German translation of the story was split into two books - god knows why. That's why I'm only reviewing the first half of the book here). Since I received the book through a book box (where you don't know beforehand which book you will get), I started the story about Tané, Ead, Sabran and Loth with absolutely no expectations at all. I had seen the book pop up on my Goodreads dashboard from time to time before, but I never looked into the content, only admired the beautiful cover (probably the most beautiful cover of the year - at least in my opinion). At the beginning, I struggled a bit to find my way around the world in which the story is set. In the first four or five chapters, so many places, people (with weird names) and things (such as the religions represented there) are thrown at you that I thought it would take me forever to read the book. But to my surprise, after a certain point you find your way around quite quickly (if you forget the names of a few unimportant side characters right away). I have to say that the story really captivated me. I also think that the writing style is very well chosen - very appropriate for the type of story, but still easy and good to follow. Some things that happened in the course of the story I anticipated, but that didn't bother me at all (for once). Nothing seemed heavy-handed, trite or forced. I am really curious to see how the story continues and ordered the second volume yesterday. "The Priory of the Orange Tree" is definitely one of my highlights of the year in 2020. I really recommend it to everyone - even if you don't usually like fantasy that much (like me).
Ich war so gespannt auf dieses Buch. Es ist ein High-Fantasy-Einzelband -- wann liest man denn mal so was? Es ist, als wäre Game of Thrones zu einem einzigen Buch verdichtet worden, so hat es sich zumindest angefühlt, als man das Worldbuilding einigermaßen verstanden hat. Beim Lesen war ich vom Potenzial dieser Welt überwältigt. Magie und Politik ist für mich allgemein immer eine reizende Kombination, und jetzt auch noch Drachen und LGBTQ+ Repräsentation? Ich konnte gar nicht genug bekommen. Doch habe ich mich während des Lesens fortwährend gefragt, wie das Buch enden soll. Denn am Anfang war die Geschichte ziemlich langsam. Klar, es ist viel passiert, aber das diente alles nur dem World- und Characterbuilding. Man ist mit vielen Informationen gefüttert worden, großen und kleinen, sodass man hervorragend Vermutungen über etwaige Plottwists aufstellen konnte. Das liebe ich an Büchern, wenn sie selbst zum Mitdenken animieren. Als der Midpoint rum war und nicht das geschehen ist, wovon ich ausging, dass es geschieht, habe ich mich noch intensiver gefragt, wie das Buch denn bitte schön enden soll. Denn: Viel Zeit bleibt nicht mehr für ein episches Finale und die Resolution. Lange Rede kurz: Das Finale war etwas enttäuschend. Und in der Resolution waren so viele Dinge angedeutet, dass ich gar nicht verstanden habe, was denn nun angedeutet wird. Trotzdem würde ich es jedem ans Herz legen, der Fantasybücher mag. Allein für die ersten 700 Seiten lohnt es sich (vor dem Finale kann man ja einfach einen Cut machen und sein eigenes Ende schreiben :D)
It was okay, it's a really worldbuilding ploted book, but it's not all at ones, the worldbuilding goes all over the 800 pages, it's a LOT info to take in, to much if you ask me, half of the chapters were boring or just useless, it's a book with dragons, but where are they? It's not a bad book, just not one for me
Beautiful. I didn’t pick up this book for a long time because one, it’s is big and a bit intimidating, two, the description was vague and didn’t capture me... But how could the description not be vague when this book has SO MUCH? I have no idea how to describe the beauty of this story without going into to much detail. I suppose all you need to know is that there’s water dragons, mages undercover and a plague dividing the world. All in all. I loved it
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(For some reason, the German translation of the story was split into two books - god knows why. That's why I'm only reviewing the first half of the book here). Since I received the book through a book box (where you don't know beforehand which book you will get), I started the story about Tané, Ead, Sabran and Loth with absolutely no expectations at all. I had seen the book pop up on my Goodreads dashboard from time to time before, but I never looked into the content, only admired the beautiful cover (probably the most beautiful cover of the year - at least in my opinion). At the beginning, I struggled a bit to find my way around the world in which the story is set. In the first four or five chapters, so many places, people (with weird names) and things (such as the religions represented there) are thrown at you that I thought it would take me forever to read the book. But to my surprise, after a certain point you find your way around quite quickly (if you forget the names of a few unimportant side characters right away). I have to say that the story really captivated me. I also think that the writing style is very well chosen - very appropriate for the type of story, but still easy and good to follow. Some things that happened in the course of the story I anticipated, but that didn't bother me at all (for once). Nothing seemed heavy-handed, trite or forced. I am really curious to see how the story continues and ordered the second volume yesterday. "The Priory of the Orange Tree" is definitely one of my highlights of the year in 2020. I really recommend it to everyone - even if you don't usually like fantasy that much (like me).
Ich war so gespannt auf dieses Buch. Es ist ein High-Fantasy-Einzelband -- wann liest man denn mal so was? Es ist, als wäre Game of Thrones zu einem einzigen Buch verdichtet worden, so hat es sich zumindest angefühlt, als man das Worldbuilding einigermaßen verstanden hat. Beim Lesen war ich vom Potenzial dieser Welt überwältigt. Magie und Politik ist für mich allgemein immer eine reizende Kombination, und jetzt auch noch Drachen und LGBTQ+ Repräsentation? Ich konnte gar nicht genug bekommen. Doch habe ich mich während des Lesens fortwährend gefragt, wie das Buch enden soll. Denn am Anfang war die Geschichte ziemlich langsam. Klar, es ist viel passiert, aber das diente alles nur dem World- und Characterbuilding. Man ist mit vielen Informationen gefüttert worden, großen und kleinen, sodass man hervorragend Vermutungen über etwaige Plottwists aufstellen konnte. Das liebe ich an Büchern, wenn sie selbst zum Mitdenken animieren. Als der Midpoint rum war und nicht das geschehen ist, wovon ich ausging, dass es geschieht, habe ich mich noch intensiver gefragt, wie das Buch denn bitte schön enden soll. Denn: Viel Zeit bleibt nicht mehr für ein episches Finale und die Resolution. Lange Rede kurz: Das Finale war etwas enttäuschend. Und in der Resolution waren so viele Dinge angedeutet, dass ich gar nicht verstanden habe, was denn nun angedeutet wird. Trotzdem würde ich es jedem ans Herz legen, der Fantasybücher mag. Allein für die ersten 700 Seiten lohnt es sich (vor dem Finale kann man ja einfach einen Cut machen und sein eigenes Ende schreiben :D)
It was okay, it's a really worldbuilding ploted book, but it's not all at ones, the worldbuilding goes all over the 800 pages, it's a LOT info to take in, to much if you ask me, half of the chapters were boring or just useless, it's a book with dragons, but where are they? It's not a bad book, just not one for me
Beautiful. I didn’t pick up this book for a long time because one, it’s is big and a bit intimidating, two, the description was vague and didn’t capture me... But how could the description not be vague when this book has SO MUCH? I have no idea how to describe the beauty of this story without going into to much detail. I suppose all you need to know is that there’s water dragons, mages undercover and a plague dividing the world. All in all. I loved it