A Day of Fallen Night: A Roots of Chaos Novel (The Roots of Chaos)

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trust them😟 you know when you rewatch a movie and realize how obvious who the bad guy was from the start? Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Each was so different, from beliefs to voice, and it was nothing short of a special reading experience to go through this massive journey with each of them.

No man is an island and perhaps you won't succeed for yourself but you might just tip the balance for someone else. And among all this chaos, the best solution that the 16-year-old Queen Dumai decides is to have an heir! Although she is a great warrior, faultless with a spear as she fights alongside her ichneumon, Ninuru, her heart holds her family above all else.with queer representation on the page, complex female characters, and a fantastical world that rivals Westeros, the pages simply fly by.

There are characters in this book who love being mothers and everything that comes with it, others who fear it, others who resent the expectation of it, and so many thoughts in between. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading.However, because each instalment seems to take me about three years to finish, I need to consider my schedule carefully before I jump into each one, especially since I have other ongoing projects. I’m less present here nowadays, as I’ve realised I only have the concentration and willpower for one social media platform.

Set 500 years before The Priory of the Orange Tree, A Day of Fallen Night encompasses a whole world, with different religions, traditions and cultures. the Absolute Best Kind of Expansive Fantasy Epic … Shannon's immense and immersive worldbuilding [tells] a story that spans both kingdoms and generations … grounding sweeping, apocalyptic events in emotional, deeply human stories of connection, love, and agency … Like Priory before it, the world in A Day of Fallen Night is effortlessly diverse and inclusive … what makes [ A Day of] Fallen Night sing is the way it uses its fantastical framework to explore complex issues of love and loss, sacrifice and duty, bodily autonomy, and motherhood.Taking place centuries before the events of Priory, it’s an expansive epic that interweaves four connected story lines as the protagonists reckon with both personal conflicts and the cataclysmic resurgence of wyrmkind. It took me a little while to get into - Shannon uses the first twenty per cent of the book to set out her stall and doesn't rush. A Day of Fallen Night is just as epic as The Priory of the Orange Tree but takes a while to get going. 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. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hr th, narrowly saving both realms from ruin.

Intricate and epic, Samantha Shannon 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. The beginning of the series, revised and enriched with new maps, new illustrations, new scenes and dialogue, and most importantly, ten years’ more experience.If Priory of the Orange Tree is like a loaded potato, A Day of Fallen Night is like a Dodger Dog: Distinguished by its length, you can only eat so much before you run out of bun and condiments. As in the first book, the wyrms or Western dragons have Eastern counterparts worshipped by characters from those regions. And, inevitably, this is the battle of Dumai's storyline; she is a kite meant to soar with the winds, yet she is tangled in the politics of a land she was not born to understand.