The Priory of the Orange Tree

What a world. Very enjoyable fantasy. Definitely will read prequel.

My only complaint is that while it was quite long and built a massive, massive world with a thousand years of history, religion and mythology, it suffered significantly with pacing issues. It probably should have been two or three books.

The narration of the audiobook is pretty good, but some of the voices were distracting. The narrator does not do a good job with male voices, deep = evil a lot of times, and an emperor of what is described as a vaguely eastern land talks like Colonel Sanders. Very, very distracting.