The Priory of the Orange Tree

In general, I finished it, so it means that I've enjoyed it on some level. The story is interesting, but that's where interesting stops and cliche starts. Characters are so predictable and naive sometimes that it hurts how stupid it is. Naive, that's a single word that can describe this book, because character relations are naive, the story is naive, there are quite a bit of events happening in the book that would never happen in the real world or if this was a serious write-up. A few characters, such as the spymaster, Trynde, and her boyfriend, are in focus in the first half of the book, but they either die or are pushed from the scene later in the book, so it makes me ask: why? Why even introducing those characters, if they don't have any meaningful purpose?

In the end, this might be an okay book for YA, but if you are looking for some serious story, don't bother, and look somewhere else.