Reviews - Șarpele și aripile nopții

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Șarpele și aripile nopții

Carissa Broadbent

4.27 AVERAGE

chaz30's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

katiwind's review against another edition

4.5

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

reading_gamer's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shaniakmt's review against another edition

3.0

Disclaimer: I am not a romantasy girly. I love my fantasy with a side of romance, but I generally am not interested in stories with romance as the main plot. Even though I thought the fantasy elements were lacking, this was a fun and easy read and I do not regret reading it.

Biggest Pros:
• The pacing was very good for me. I found the book hard to put down and finished it in a couple of days. While it had its problems, it was generally very entertaining.
• I really enjoyed the action scenes / arena scenes. I thought they were the most engaging and well-written parts of the book.
• Overall, I don’t regret reading this at all. It was fun, entertaining, and easy to read. For me, that’s plenty good enough.

Biggest Cons:
• Every time I think about this book, I can’t recall its name, so make of that what you will.
• The world building and development of mystery and political intrigue were weak, with the exception of the tower / arena itself. As a fantasy fan, I was waiting to learn more about the world outside of the competition plot, but that never really happened satisfactorily. Like tell me more about the different races of winged vampires. Where did they come from? And the Gods, are there more of them? Have they existed since the beginning of time or were they once mortals who were granted Godly gifts? Do the humans worship the Gods also? What's the flora and fauna situation? Is it just the same as normal Earth but with vampires? If it's just regular Earth, then what period of human civilisation is this set? And what's the scale of this whole thing, like are the vampires on every continent? Are there even any other continents? The fantasy and worldbuilding really felt like just a setting or backdrop for the romance and that's okay, but it just doesn't do it for me.
• The surprise at the end would have landed for me a little better if

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there had been more foreshadowing of the main character’s true origins.

In fact, I can’t recall there being any real hints, unless I missed something.
• I can enjoy an

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enemies to lovers to enemies

plot, but not when it feels like

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it has been set up for them to become lovers again.

I cannot abide that. It makes me wonder if the author feels they are incapable of keeping a romance interesting for a whole second book without relying on

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the enemies to lovers trope

which is so trendy right now.
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Also, he literally killed her dad right in front of her. Then threatened to rape her (whether he was lying for her safety or not, I don’t care, it was disgusting). Then forced her to marry him. And yet, I feel like the author still wants us to root for them. I don’t want to read the sequel because I don’t want to see her forgive him and go back to him. Girl, have some self-respect.