Samantha Shannon

A Day of Fallen Night Review — Is It Worth Reading?

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Updated on October 8, 2026 Verdict: The best-written dragon book with sapphic women at its centre, and an epic fantasy rather than a romance — magnificent for four hundred pages after it takes four hundred pages to start. Best for: Readers who want an 880-page queernorm epic with middle-aged women as protagonists and a real … Read more

The Priory of the Orange Tree Review | Samantha Shannon | Is It Worth Reading?

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Verdict: A complete 848-page feminist epic with dragons, a queen and a mage at its centre and no sequel required, let down by a first half that explains and a last act that sprints. Best for: Readers who want one enormous standalone secondary world with women in power treated as unremarkable, and who would rather … Read more