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The Silvered Serpents
by Roshani Chokshi
I don't think I'll ever get over that ending. Ever.
The Silvered Serpents is the second book in The Gilded Wolves series, and it's filled with just as much angst, drama, and adventure as the first. It also happens to have probably one of my favorite plot twists of all time.
Instead of France, the story now takes place in Russia as Séverin's team searches for a hidden palace and a book with the secrets to immortality. While it feels less like a heist and more like an adventure, I enjoyed this book just as much as the first. Some points in the story feel a bit slower, but the last 25% completely makes up for that. There's a fair amount of action, a bunch of puzzles, and a ton of angst (especially due to the ending of the last book).
Once again, I absolutely love the cast of characters and their interactions, even though some of them really got on my nerves in this one. Enrique and Zofia are my favorites by far and I love both their partnership and their POVs on their own. For this reason, I'm still not a Hypnos fan because he feels like a homewrecker and I just don't like him that much. Séverin and Laila are still super neat characters, but their relationship arc made me dislike reading some of their chapters because they were constantly focused on hating each other and that annoyed me. And then there's Eva, who I hate so much for a lot of reasons (similar to why I don't like Hypnos) and I just wish she didn't exist.
This series does not disappoint, and I honestly don't remember anything that happens in the next one (I think there's a gondola ride at one point and that's the extent to what I remember) so I'm excited to reread it.
4.75/5
The Silvered Serpents is the second book in The Gilded Wolves series, and it's filled with just as much angst, drama, and adventure as the first. It also happens to have probably one of my favorite plot twists of all time.
Instead of France, the story now takes place in Russia as Séverin's team searches for a hidden palace and a book with the secrets to immortality. While it feels less like a heist and more like an adventure, I enjoyed this book just as much as the first. Some points in the story feel a bit slower, but the last 25% completely makes up for that. There's a fair amount of action, a bunch of puzzles, and a ton of angst (especially due to the ending of the last book).
Once again, I absolutely love the cast of characters and their interactions, even though some of them really got on my nerves in this one. Enrique and Zofia are my favorites by far and I love both their partnership and their POVs on their own. For this reason, I'm still not a Hypnos fan because he feels like a homewrecker and I just don't like him that much. Séverin and Laila are still super neat characters, but their relationship arc made me dislike reading some of their chapters because they were constantly focused on hating each other and that annoyed me. And then there's Eva, who I hate so much for a lot of reasons (similar to why I don't like Hypnos) and I just wish she didn't exist.
This series does not disappoint, and I honestly don't remember anything that happens in the next one (I think there's a gondola ride at one point and that's the extent to what I remember) so I'm excited to reread it.
4.75/5