a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

No matter if it was by the smells and sounds of the different places or kingdoms, the burning heat of the deserts in the South or unbearable cold of the different cities in the North or on top of Mount Ipyeda, the texture and style of the garments worn by Glorian, Wulf, Tunuva, Esbar, Dumai and Nikeya or the feel of the dragon scales or the fur of the ichneumons. Once again, whenever I opened this book, I just got swept away into this incredibly vivid world. Samamtha Shannon has such an incredible talent when it comes to creating a world with so much depth, detail and variety in landscapes, culture, aesthetic, and history, that made reading A Day of Fallen Night as well as The Priory of the Orange Tree like spending night after night in an ancient library, studying old, dusty texts of the world we get to enter in these books.Īnd to see even more of this world in A Day of Fallen Night was a treasure to be granted. My first initial thought after finishing this ARC was that Samantha Shannon is truly a blessing to the fantasy genre and we should be in awe of her work.įor me, A Day of Fallen Night was carried by three fundamental pillars: The Worldbuilding, The Inweaving of the plotlines and The Women & Diversity. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 & 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬: High fantasy, standalone prequel, incredibly diverse characters, LGBTG+ representation, established sapphic relationships, sapphic enemies to lovers, bisexual friends to lovers, wyrms & dragons, giant mongooses, two kinds of magic A Day of Fallen Night was my most anticipated release of 2023, and to read it months before its release was such a surreal experience and I´ll forever be grateful for it. Intricate and epic, A Day of Fallen Night sweeps readers back to the world of A Priory of the Orange Tree, showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come.įirst and foremost, I want to thank Bloomsburry and NetGalley for approving me for an ARC of this book. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate.

Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin.

For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series - 'The new Game of Thrones' (Stylist)

A day of fallen night by samantha shannon