# The Priory of the Orange Tree

**Author(s):** Samantha Shannon, Jorge Rizzo
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-priory-of-the-orange-tree/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, fantasy
**Pages:** 848
**Publisher:** Bloomsbury Publishing
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781635570281
**ISBN-10:** 1526612860
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-priory-of-the-orange-tree

## Description

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Priory of the Orange Tree has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★★ (Untitled) — r-s-curtis
A standalone epic with the scope of a trilogy. Dragons, queens, and a quietly beautiful romance. Exactly what it needs to be.