Reviews

Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

spacepixel's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

stfucatalina's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i adore female rage and i’m glad to see it written with such a strong justifiable hunger rather than feeling guilty because it’s something people would say to get over.

one thing that did cause me to pause was when

morgan’s dna was tested against the dna from lex’s rape kit and matched. nobody thought to test his dna when she first accused him? also, did lex ever get her name cleared for “beating” luna? did beckett ever get exposed?

asmith1102's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

sheinac's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

simonizzys's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

review to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Bullying

tzinreads's review against another edition

4.0

4,5/5 ⭐

This book made me adore Giana's writing even more!
It was the first time that i read FF x dark academia and i really enjoyed it!

It was a really good read but you definitely have to check TWs since it involves around a couple touchy subjects!!!

The fact that had the greek element in it (mythology, names etc) made me love it even more!!!!!

Big thanks to VPR and Giana for this ARC!!

marasong's review against another edition

4.0

Sapphic Medusa retelling? That’s all I needed to hear before immediately downloading it.

amyisis7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

daisyclemence's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

kayhush's review against another edition

4.0

I was not expecting the social commentary and female rage to be as hard-hitting as it is.  And for that, I really enjoyed this.  Romance is secondary to the larger plot and action of the story.