Wow!!! Where do I even start with this review. A Day of Fallen Night had met and exceeded all expectations that I had going into its pages. The book is a prequal, stand-alone, high fantasy, to The Priory of the Orange Tree. The plot follows four characters, Dumai, Tunuva, Glorian, and Wulf, each burdened to save their homelands from the evils that have reopened, plaguing, and killing their land and people.
For a fantasy, the book was so beautiful, written with its poetic understone. Throughout it, I was intoxicated with the world building and the added details that expanded from The Priory of the Orange Tree's world building. I love how the cultures in the world of Root's of Chaos compliment the cultures in our world, making the books that much more rich and divine. I absolutely loved the characters presented and their beautiful, heartbreaking stories. The action sequences were written more rigorously, and feeling more complete compared to The Priory, having me at the edge of my seat at times. Samantha Shannon has made me fall in love and back in love again with this world, that now I must reread Fallen Nights sister, The Priory. I love this worlds fantastical history, and I cannot wait for a 3rd book.