Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

302 reviews

booknerdcoco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

It's been a while since I've read a vampire novel. And this did not disappoint. I listened to it on audiobook, and though I prefer to read, I felt like the narrators added to the story.

The plot twist at the end was unexpected, and my heart broke for the FMC.

But the build-up I thought was good.

My only frustration was that I struggled to keep track of some of the less prominent characters that turned out to be significant in the end. This somewhat interrupted the flow of the story for me.

Spice 2.5/5
Plot 4.75
Book boyfriend: This is difficult because of the plot twist, but the for the most part 90% maybe a 3.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

sbordo's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: War, Violence, Racism, Murder, Death of parent, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Gaslighting, Grief, Genocide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Classism, Child abuse, and Alcohol

bookfulthoughts's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I’M IN DENIAL! ❤️‍🩹😩

“This was the stare of a creature who understood she was confronting death itself, and still chose to spit in its face.“

Badass FL! This story felt unique and captivating. I love the description of the world and the role all the characters have to play in the movement of it. I felt captivated from the very beginning. I loved how each character developed as the book progressed. The pacing was great! It gave enough time for things to unfold exactly how they should. It didn’t feel rushed to me. THIS IS QUALITY STUFF! 

THAT TWIST ALMOST BROKE MY SPINE! I had vertigo the last 100 pages 🫨! I finished and stared at the wall for at least 10 minutes. The only thing I took points off for was the fact that I wanted to hear more about the build up behind the scenes with Vincent. I felt like that would have been the cherry on top! It would have set the stage for…. Anyways I loved it and I’m running to the next book 🏃🏾‍♀️💨. 

Vincent 😩🤧!!!!!!!! Raihn 🤬😭😰🤧!!!!!! I did not see that sh*t coming! I was running around my room T R A U M A T I Z E D! Oraya 😭 I- I have no words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Classism, Sexual content, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Violence, Murder, Torture, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Racism, Sexual content, Death, Hate crime, Bullying, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Classism, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and War

Minor: Trafficking and Slavery

onyxpearl1017's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I was a Twilight girlie but Edward did not win my heart. Team Jacob all the way. But uh…. Reading this??? I finally fell in love with a vampire 😏

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Murder

Minor: Slavery and Torture

lusragray's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Rape, Vomit, Sexual violence, Self harm, Animal death, Genocide, Violence, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

_sophs_book_nook_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I loved this book all the way through, the world building was brilliant, the characters interactions were so raw, thought out and funny at times. 

An absolutely amazing book and THE ENDINGGGG! Oh my goodness!
Thank Fu*k there are more to read ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual content, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Murder

kinsportch's review

adventurous tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Body horror, Death, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Genocide, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and Gaslighting

justinekorson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was such a good novel! I couldn't put it down. I was genuinely very enamored with this vampiric world and how Oraya fit into it as a human/not human (since she doesn't really consider herself human). I was glad that her father, Vincent (honestly a very weirdly normal name), clearly loved her. I was worried that by the end of the book I'd hate him when I found out he'd been manipulating her. In a way, he was, but in other books when this is true, the person doing the manipulating doesn't usually care for the MC or regret what they did. You could tell in the story that Vincent truly loved Oraya and wanted the best for her, even though he didn't tell her who she was to him. I also really enjoyed Rhaine as a character. He was very sincere and was clearly so in love with her. I'm glad that even though he lied to her he clearly would die for her, and was very sincerely apologetic about what happened. I'm excited to see how their stories end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Rape, Child death, Grief, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, War, and Murder

niamhrowanch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

THIS RUINED ME

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Violence, War, Torture, Cursing, Death of parent, Body horror, Classism, Murder, Slavery, Gore, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Sexual content