The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon, 2019
A standalone epic of dragonriders, an embattled queen and a divided world forced to reckon with the same ancient enemy.
Samantha Shannon
Priory reworks the Saint George legend: in Shannon's world the dragon-slaying saint is a founding myth of the West, and the dragons are not simply monsters.
Feels like awe, faith and power.
What it means to be told your blood is the sea.
To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart. Books by Samantha Shannon
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