Danger, intrigue and a hell of rather a lot of blood are splashed throughout the pages of Carissa Broadbent’s gripping fantasy romance, The Serpent & the Wings of the Night.
The first entry in Broadbent’s Crowns of Nyaxia duology, The Serpent & the Wings of the Night grants extra nuance than normal to vampires, casting them as one thing nearer to the elves of excessive fantasy than the monstrous figures of horror novels. Rescued by the Nightborn King, Victor, as a child, Oraya has lived each second of her life as a sheep amongst wolves, the solely human in a courtroom of vampires. She’s educated herself to be lethal and to belief nobody besides Victor, and he or she yearns for the day she will be able to shed her humanity. Luckily, an opportunity to just do that arrives in the kind of the Kejari, an historic match with an unimaginable prize: an opportunity to request something from the goddess Nyaxia. Raihn, a brand new vampire to the courtroom, gives her an alliance, which Oraya cautiously accepts. But can Raihn be trusted as he and Oraya attempt to survive the trials of the Kejari?
Oraya’s first-person perspective fills the pages together with her suspicion, ruthlessness and loneliness. That sense of dread is balanced by the incontrovertible fact that Oraya is considerably of a badass: There are combat scenes galore on this e book, and it’s simple to root for Oraya as she swirls her swords in opposition to foe after foe. It’s no marvel that Victor nicknamed her “little serpent.”
Broadbent correctly permits Oraya’s partitions to come back down one brick at a time, particularly in relation to her interactions with Raihn. A yin-and-yang relationship slowly develops between the two as belief heals previous wounds and their odds of successful the Kejari turns into extra actual. Broadbent makes use of the looming risk of a conflict between the vampire kingdoms so as to add heft, a choice which elevates the stakes of the match and grounds the story in an actual disaster.
Fans of The Hunger Games or Red Rising will take pleasure in this bloody twist on the match trope, and nearly any reader will love Oraya and Raihn’s relationship.
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