Book jacket image for A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Bloomsbury

9781635577921

STARRED REVIEW

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon’s prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree is just as sumptuous and explosive, immersing readers in a world on the brink of destruction.

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Review of ‘A Day of Fallen Night’

Somewhere beneath the surface of the world, an ancient evil sleeps. The Nameless One, a wyrm so powerful that it once threatened the very fabric of life, is bound beneath the Earth’s crust, in its molten interior. Some think that its defeat came at the hands of a knight named Galian. Those…

Behind the Book by Samantha Shannon

A Day of Fallen Night reveals the origins of the conflict between humans and wyrms—and blazes a trail for what’s to come.

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