A review by _lannylou
Embrace the Serpent by Sunya Mara

4.0

Sunya Mara is so talented at creating unique worlds and magics. Magic being based in gems and how they’re cut and set was so creative and fleshed out the world and characters in a wonderful way. Speaking of the characters - I love them. Saphira and Rane had delightful banter. But I do feel like we didn’t get enough set up and time with them together for the emotional scenes to really hit, making them fall a little flat for me. Particularly between Mirandel and Saphira, as well as Saphira and Rane.

With that being said, the writing is beautiful and the banter had me cackling. I had a great time with this standalone. I’ll read whatever she writes. 

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for this e-arc.