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The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

41 reviews

emilywemily6's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Wow this book. The first 25% felt slow, probably because vampires are not my favorite fantasy concept, but then I read the rest of the book in less than 24 hours. This is high fantasy and my brain had a little bit of a hard time wrapping itself around everything for the first part because I wasn’t in the mood I think, but I enjoyed it thoroughly even when it felt a little slow. I loved the magic system and politics, as well as the culture of the entire country. It was well thought out and intriguing to learn about. I appreciated all of the characters’ motivations and found lots of depth in the characters too. The last 80 pages gutted me 😭 it was such an emotional whirlwind. My feelings are so complicated about how it all ended, which is the mark of a well-written and complex book that I am still thinking about. I have no idea where the second book will go but I need to read it asap!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Cursing

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcohol, Grief, Infidelity, and Self harm

rais's review

medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Murder, Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm and Toxic relationship

zarhara's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, War, Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

Minor: Slavery and Alcohol

asipofcozy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

My mind is absolutely blown. I went into this with very low expectations - as I do with all hyped books. I didn't want to get my hopes up in a book that had been advertised as a steamy fantasy romance. Which lately when you see those labels on books, it means very little to the plot and world building and more focus on the s*x and romance. 

However, was VERY surprised. While the romance and tension was there this was a slow burn with world building and plot at the forefront. I really enjoyed the characters, the trials, and my god that ending blew me out of the water.

Book 2 here I come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Child death, Rape, Sexual content, Animal death, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Self harm, Death of parent, Torture, War, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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 was honestly such a brilliant,inventive and fun read. it was so refreshing, I only wish there had been more diversity in the main cast of characters rather than just the periphery, and that there was more detail in some aspects - but, really, the book was so incredible even without these things. It yanked me out of my reading slump SO hard, and I'm just going to abandon my other reads and go binge the rest of the books in this universe now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, and Death of parent

kat1105's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual content, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Rape, and Slavery

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Animal death, Alcohol, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Medical content, and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

edilyaaang's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This had me at the edge of my seat the entire time. Ugh, I ove everything about this book. I NEED to have a physical copy...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, and Grief

raypaws's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, and War

Minor: Animal death and Emotional abuse

booshort's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

What the actual fuck.
Where was this book when I was in all of my previous fantasy book slumps?

The first ~7 chapters were fine enough, it felt like any other fantasy read, really. Jumping in to a new world, learning terms, and just sort of accepting things as they come up. Oh there’s vampires with different types of wings? Ya sure. This big mega vamp wants this rando human child as a pseudo child of his own? Go wild. But once you’re securely in the trials that take place in this book, *you get hooked*. The world is simple but still feels so real with the way Broadbent describes it. It was almost a theme while I was reading; expecting something shallow due to how little this book/author has been talked about in the mainstream until now (thank you booktok), but then being utterly surprised when proven wrong. Each chapter just revealed more and more strings and important details and connections and and and. I am thoroughly amazed.
I know many people are comparing Broadbent’s series and their respective tones to Sarah J Maas’ books, but there really is no better parallel. I’ve yet to read any other books by Broadbent, but there is no doubt I will collect as many as I can get my hands on. 

Seriously though, if you are a fan of SJ Maas, give this author a go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Grief, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Death, Blood, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Moderate: Torture, Child abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, Classism, Genocide, Confinement, Death of parent, and Vomit

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Alcohol, Vomit, and War