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

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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. As someone who is childfree by choice and has known I would be from the earliest I can ever remember having a coherent thought on the matter, A Day of Fallen Night made me feel so seen. Love, pregnancy, greed, ambition, betrayal, survival, war, dragons, magic, grief, chaos and adventure is what you get from ‘A Day of Fallen Night’.

I also found many of the plotpoints in this predictable and saw the 'twists' coming from a mile away. 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. 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. 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. Rich in content, with real depth to the human emotion on display and personal passion portrayed through the characters.The Bone Season, the first in a seven-book series, was a New York Times bestseller and the inaugural Today Book Club selection. The politics of the world, while interesting, sometimes err into telling too much about places the characters only fleetingly visit.

The engrossing new story promises to deliver more character-driven, emotionally complex adventure and intrigue. 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. In the East, the mountain-dwelling Dumai trains as a godsinger, establishing a connection between humankind and the dragons that her society worships.

so many fantasy books these days don’t have any, but both priory and fallen night have plenty to fill that void. I enjoyed A Day of Fallen Night even more than The Priory of the Orange Tree, it was such an incredible read. 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.