Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

8 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

OK, now we're getting somewhere!

(Although, could anyone else use less of Severin and Laila's tortured romance? No? Just me? Sheesh, I'm such a cynic.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Grief

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Infertility, Mental illness, Hate crime, Suicide, and Torture

Mild: Saneism

alicelalicon's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Grief, Self harm, and Death

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

3.75

That cliffhanger should be illegal, go into this book knowing you’ll need to start the next one soon after. Séverin still pissed me off in this one, but the other main characters are top tier. The more treasure hunting/Indiana Jones vibe was so fun in this book. I liked the plot just a tad bit more than the first one. Can’t wait to see where the story goes. 

Treasure Hunt, Romance Subplots, Diverse Characters, 1 🔥

“He wanted someone who would enter a room and look for him first, to behold him as though the secrets of the world lay somewhere in his gaze, to finish his sentences.”

“When a man cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is peering out of his eyes.”

“I envy you because you can look at yourself. You can bear your own reflection, knowing you can shoulder the weight of every choice you made and regret you carry. That is a rare thing as one gets older.”

“Gods burned cities and spared a child. Gods put gold in the palms of the wicked and left that miserable currency of hope in the hearts of the good.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Xenophobia

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Religious bigotry, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Colonisation, Body horror, Antisemitism, Blood, Gore, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Genocide, and Sexual content

kaylamoran's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

I liked this one so much more than the first!  I'm going to have to buy the third, it'll annoy me a lot not finishing it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Death of parent

karambit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Blood, Death, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gore, Alcohol, Confinement, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Infertility, Cultural appropriation, and Self harm

oliverreeds's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

FUCK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Confinement, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Racism

maryjames's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation