Sabran: Gloriana, I sacrificed myself and married your father (yes he is the hottest man alive and worships the ground I walk on) but that is beside the point.

The three main female characters were all equally adorable, admirable, and deserving of a central role. A Day of Fallen Night is an absolutely stunning work of fantasy that takes place five hundred years before Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree. He serves as a warrior under King Bardholt, fighting against the rumours of the Haithwood, trying to be someone his family will be proud of.Whilst I fell in love with many of these characters there was just too many to fully appreciate them all and quite a few added little to the overall story. It would have been better if Cleolind whatshername story was the prominent one in the first part then we jump 500 years later to see history repeating itself! Meanwhile, Tunuva Melim, a warrior of the Priory, ventures into the outside world to pursue a runaway postulant whose relationship with an outsider puts their sanctuary at risk. A Day of Fallen Night is a prequel to the highly popular The Priory of the Orange Tree, set in the same world a few hundred years earlier. I have always adored the careful balance of this world's magic system and was delighted to see so much magic throughout the different perspectives.

A series of plots to enthral and captivate and written in a dream like way that was also compelling and believable.so many fantasy books these days don’t have any, but both priory and fallen night have plenty to fill that void.