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i recently was at a book store and happened to find priory of the orange tree and was like oh!! the book booasaur keeps recommending. and by god. what a unit. what an absolute CHONK of a book. that thing could break a toe

Heh, keeps recommending? Am I really so strongly associated with it now? I mean, I guess I am! And yes! It is MASSIVE. Like a coward I bailed and got the ebook version (also, the hardcover was taking too long to arrive). The paperback version is coming out soon and it still looks hefty af:

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I think it was you who recommended Priory of the Orange Tree to your followers a while ago. If so: THANK YOU. It’s so good. It’s the first book in years that I haven’t been able to put down. I don’t think I’ve felt this way about a book since I was a teenager.

Ah, anon, I have no excuse for why I’m answering this so late, I could’ve answered it on the app any day, so…I’m sorry.

No problem! I’m glad it lived up to the hype for you! I wish I had others to recommend like it but honestly, it’s been a bit tough finding something with all the ingredients that made Priory so good.

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Thank you for recommending The Priory of The Orange Tree. I was hooked from the first page! Finished it in 4 days, I couldn’t put it down!! And the slow burn was so satisfying!!!

I’m glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate you letting me know. 🙂

It really does suck you in, right, and yesss, of all the books I’ve read recently, most with f/f in some form, I still really do love how romantic it was, such interesting well-written characters who really fell for each other and how it then worked into the rest of their motivations.

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Giveaway: The Priory of the Orange Tree

Giveaway: The Priory of the Orange Tree

As with any new book I’ve liked recently, I’m making a giveaway for it. There are only two copies so they’re going to go fast but I’d urge you to still try it out if you don’t win and if you can’t afford it or the sample wasn’t enough to convince you to buy it, then still see if your library has it and if not, request them to get it.

It’s just plain epic fantasy, fun and long and detailed, characters to root for and a simple premise at heart. At 800 pages, it’s definitely something you can lose yourself in. There are a four regions and a lot of politics and religion at play but to oversimply the summary, an evil ancient dragon is going to awaken and that’s Not Good. But don’t worry, there are good dragons too, one of the four point of view characters is actually a dragonrider. 

I don’t want to spoil too much because I really enjoyed it not knowing too much going in but yes, there is a very romantic (to me) f/f pair and if you know anything about what I like, I wouldn’t recommend this book if I thought the ending wasn’t satisfactory.

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ooh i feel like Juls would be pretty reserved and serious at work too, so ppl would be like ahh Stoic Creative, but then when Val rocks up Juls gets all soft and all her colleagues are like WHO is this soft bean. is orange tree good btw?

I agree with that.

Juls with everyone else:

Juls with Val:

But really, she does warm up a lot to people she knows and I bet she’s beloved at work, but the way she is with Val is next level, you can’t even compare it to Lupe. Val just opens up something in her and allows to be in a way that nobody else does.

I actually have been enjoying Priory of the Orange Tree a lot! It’s very traditional epic fantasy, you got your dragons, you got your magic, you got your magic swords, you got your detailed worldbuilding, and it’s well-written enough that I’d have enjoyed it just on the basis of that but I cannot deny that the f/f really elevates it. A legit slow burn between the two most interesting and important characters, who happen to be women? I loved them and I loved the romance. And it was a slow burn, I’ve heard people say the romance doesn’t start till halfway through (which, it’s an 850 page standalone) but the dynamic starts noticeably changing much earlier than that, in such a delicious oh-you-two-have-no-idea kind of way.