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creepepaper 's review for:
Serpent & Dove
by Shelby Mahurin
3.5
[This review may be considered a spoiler to some??? Proceed with caution]
It was a good story, but I found myself falling out of the world a little bit. I would get glossy eyed and snap into reality every now and then. I don't feel Reid and Lou's relationship had enough foundation to be "in-love" in the way they were. If they kept working at the pace they were working, I would feel they would genuinely love each other by the next book, but I didn't feel there was enough to go off of here.
My own personal hang-ups: I struggle a lot with stories that include genuine Christianity. I'm fine with fantasy that masks Christianity so they can adjust it as they need to for the story, but this was genuine midevil Catholicism. Without getting into my own religious views, I struggled because this book somewhat deemed religious folks as the "bad" guys and the only way there could really be a happy ending is by forcing Reid to forfeit his faith. Being generally on the side that believes most organized religion is bad, it also feels wrong to force or convince or even prove that someone else's religion is false.
However, Shelby Mahurin does a decent job of somewhat wrapping that conundrum up in a bow. Maybe it's a bandaid? But I didn't feel completely put off by it.
Overall, I enjoyed it. I just had a hard time really connecting to the characters.
[This review may be considered a spoiler to some??? Proceed with caution]
It was a good story, but I found myself falling out of the world a little bit. I would get glossy eyed and snap into reality every now and then. I don't feel Reid and Lou's relationship had enough foundation to be "in-love" in the way they were. If they kept working at the pace they were working, I would feel they would genuinely love each other by the next book, but I didn't feel there was enough to go off of here.
My own personal hang-ups: I struggle a lot with stories that include genuine Christianity. I'm fine with fantasy that masks Christianity so they can adjust it as they need to for the story, but this was genuine midevil Catholicism. Without getting into my own religious views, I struggled because this book somewhat deemed religious folks as the "bad" guys and the only way there could really be a happy ending is by forcing Reid to forfeit his faith. Being generally on the side that believes most organized religion is bad, it also feels wrong to force or convince or even prove that someone else's religion is false.
However, Shelby Mahurin does a decent job of somewhat wrapping that conundrum up in a bow. Maybe it's a bandaid? But I didn't feel completely put off by it.
Overall, I enjoyed it. I just had a hard time really connecting to the characters.