A review by anonymous_user
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.5

This book wasn’t the best writing (though not the worst either), but it had an interesting and exciting plot that kept me going, and the romance really made you feel it and feel invested & butterflies. It’s the first book in a while that really succeeded in doing that for me (similar to acotar though not quite at that level). I really liked how consent and safety were so emphasized in the romance, and in a way that felt like it fit the story. I was going to give it 4.75 stars for the romance, but knocked it down to 4.5 because
Raihn’s comments, actions and character shift/reveal at the end really made me hate him even if I understand some of the motives. There could have been a better way. The things he said about rape, there’s no coming back from fully in my mind. In addition to killing her father in front of her! I want to go back to before he said them, and I think that Oraya accepted him too quickly even if she was still skeptical
. The tension between love/hate of Vincent and Oraya was more well done in my opinion, and I appreciated that Oraya lived in the shades of gray instead of all hating or all loving/forgiving him.

I will read the next book but not sure how the relationship can be redeemed…
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