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A review by tencutepuppies
The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi
5.0
(5/5) I am NOT okay. Nobody talk to me for the next 3-5 business days.
Everything—the constant action, the setting in the Russian palace, the puzzles, the character development and interactions—was phenomenal. Hypnos and Enrique (and Zofia toward the end) were cute, but Severen and Laila had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It was sO angsty in that way I like.
Also can we talk about this whole passage?
““How do you know I’m not a mirage … how do you know I’m real this time, Séverin?” asked Laila. “You said so yourself I wasn’t.”
As she spoke, she straddled him, her hips above his. Séverin’s mouth twisted up, dark and lupine.
“Perhaps,” he said, his voice low. He trailed his hand up her thigh. “All goddesses are just beliefs draped on the scaffolding of ideas. I can’t touch what’s not real.” Séverin looked up at her. His pupils were blown out. “But I can worship it all the same.””
Shut the fUck up!!!!!!! I will forever be angry I didn’t write that passage myself.
Everything—the constant action, the setting in the Russian palace, the puzzles, the character development and interactions—was phenomenal. Hypnos and Enrique (and Zofia toward the end) were cute, but Severen and Laila had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It was sO angsty in that way I like.
Also can we talk about this whole passage?
““How do you know I’m not a mirage … how do you know I’m real this time, Séverin?” asked Laila. “You said so yourself I wasn’t.”
As she spoke, she straddled him, her hips above his. Séverin’s mouth twisted up, dark and lupine.
“Perhaps,” he said, his voice low. He trailed his hand up her thigh. “All goddesses are just beliefs draped on the scaffolding of ideas. I can’t touch what’s not real.” Séverin looked up at her. His pupils were blown out. “But I can worship it all the same.””
Shut the fUck up!!!!!!! I will forever be angry I didn’t write that passage myself.