The Silvered Serpents

3.5 actually p good. i think the ideas of this books and character arcs were pretty intriguing and i was invested in the mystery. but man sometimes the writing and scenes were just so clunky or confusing and contrived. like enriques arc was good til like the end and laila arc made sense and was awesome in many points and zofia is my fav character but generic growing brave arc and severin actually had a character in this that wasnt just generic edgy protag (still edgy but less generic) but each of them has super contrived moments that made me go like ok the story beat hits but execution wasnt there.

if the book was tighter it would actually be super compelling but instead a lot of it was like wait what god what mythology why is this happening. so much felt drawn out too long or too rushed!! but cool nonetheless