krista ☽✧'s Reviews > The Silvered Serpents

“perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good.”

4,25 Stars

Ha.Those last few chapters literally where emotionall destroying and had me grasping for air and screaming because of the twist and emotions several times. I was told these last chapters where good and emotional destroying but this damn. My soul has left my body now brb [ I hope ] but honestly I cant get over how good the last chapters of this book where. Damn

Buddy readed this with The amazing Lia and Firefly loved our emotional screams troughout the entire book <3

Anyway that was my emotional screaming moment now lets share my other thoughts. The silver serpents is the sequel of the gilded wolves by Roshani Chokshi. Overall I pretty much enjoyed this the same amount as I enjoyed the gilded wolves. which is a lot. This sequel follows the charracters after the traumatic events that I wish I could pretend never happened , at the ending of the gilded wolves. They are all experiencing grief and that is a big part of this book. All the charracters deal with it a different way and the Roshani really shows us this grief , and it isn’t pretty but it is real. The character still grieving however go on a new mission to Russia to find a hidden treasure that they all want for different reasons.


So first of all the plot. the plot of this book is definitely really character focused and it really focused on them dealing with their grief but it is also about them traveling to Russia. The first part of the book is basically them being in an ice palace to find out where the treasure is that they seek. And then throughout the book slowly they discover secrets and things about this treasure and at the end we have a lot of twist and action and emotional pain yet again. Throughout the whole book I did enjoy the book especially because I am invested in all of these charracters expect Hypnos because I hated him quite a lot in this book. And because this book is character driven I enjoyed those parts of the story a lot. The plot in the first half of the book was sometimes a bit boring and dragging but because of the character I stayed invested in it. The second half was definitely really good. Secrets where thrown in , twists and more mystery and action and I really enjoyed the second half of the plot. Especially those last few chapters aaah.

The worldbuilding was okay but I did expected a little more Russia worldbuilding as the story took place there. The palace setting where almost the entire books takes place is cool but I did find myself wanting some more. Other then that it was okay and I did like the historical part that is in the fantasy and world and magic system. It is different.

charracters
As I enjoy the plot and think the worldbuilding is okay, what really made me enjoy this book so much is these wonderful emotional destroying charracters. Like in the first book they are all still struggling with things and now not only the things from the first book about them selves but also the grief that is now very much present * sobbing again *. I feel like Roshani does a wonderful job with portraying grief in this book in different ways and also the internal struggels of the charracters. Severin I still love a lot. My heart broke for him in this book. His constant self hate and grief and guilt and feeling like the thing that happened was his fault. The constant need to protect his friends , this amazing found family that he loves too much and constant thinking of failing at that task and not being able to love them because they will get hurt. Damn. It really hit me. His story is definitely an ugly story of grief pushing everyone away but this is a real struggle and I appreciated it so much. Please protect him at cost because Severian you are enough <3 then we have Laila who is amazing as in the first book. Her internal struggle with dying and being made was heartbreaking and I was rooting for her the entire book. I love how kind she is and just everything. Then we have Enrique my poor bby. Who feels looked over and felt alone and who feels like he needs to live his life to the fullest because that is the way a certain person would wanted it. He is hilarious and so brave and needs to be protected. Then Zofia who is so brave and struggels with how she fits in to the world , her realizing she is worthy and can be loved is just <3 also protect and I still love her mental struggle reps with counting things ocd and autism. Also Hypnos is ehm…. Like I get his character sometimes and sometimes I felt for him but he just ignored everyone their feelings especially Enrique his feelings. But then he brought them all food and wanted to be part of it all and then I am like aaah you are also just sad. So mixed feelings hm.

The Romance in this book still isn’t the main focus but I am cool with it even tho I am a sucker for romance as one of the main things. I liked all the angst with the romance between Severin and Laila and their struggels and tension. And I really enjoyed Zofia and Enrique who aren’t a thing yet but I sense something and I ship it. Hypnos can go lie in the trash because he isn’t the one for Enrique. So the romance is nice in this one , I liked how things went.

Spoiler section AAAH !!! I knew it !! , I freaking knew it. That Ruslan was evil , I didn’t know he was the freaking doctor and we met him in book one but I didn’t trusted him. Also Laila first being the plot twist I was like omg she can open the book and then freaking Severin twist coming in like hey kidding its me bitches. HA I was shooooook. Honestly all those twistst at the end !!!!! I screamed somuch. Also omg I knew severin didn’t actually kill them but I was so scared. And he thinks Laila knows but Laila doesn’t know that he didn’t actually do it and ugh. This is a mess. I repeat this is a mess !!!
So overall I definitely enjoyed this sequel , it isn’t perfect for me but I love it & I think everyone who enjoyed the first one will enjoy this one. Now I cant wait for the second one , I care too much about these charracters. Bye I am crying myself to sleep now.