Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

 The Serpent and the Wings of the Night  By Carissa Broadbent  Series : Crowns of Nyaxia #1  Published Year : 2022 Page Count : 450 pages Medium used : Paperback Genre : Fiction, Fantasy, Vampires, Romance, Young Adult, Adventure, 2024-read.  Rating : 3.75/5 ⭐⭐⭐💫 💫 Its an okayish read for me. At times I found myself wondering if this story is for real. A human girl fights and wins against hard-core vampires through sheer brute force and some magical abilities that she doesn't really know how to wield. She summons them in case of need but that doesn’t work always. I read the whole book and I am just as clueless, about why she is called a serpent, at the end as I was at the start. She is clearly raised with messages of wanting and needing self protection and self denial from associating with vampires in her father's(the Vampire King) court because she is a human. Why is she called a snake/serpent? Is there some part of her history that is not disclosed at this p...

A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness Medium Used: Kindle PW  Genre : Witches, Vampires, Fantasy, Time Travel, 2022-read. Rating : 4/5 Took me a long time to cover this one. But that's because of other commitments and engagements  in my life. What should I say about this book? When I started it and read a few pages, I wondered if I made a mistake picking it up. I thought it is going to be a trope vampire - witch romance story that's going to getting exasperating with time..but the reviews and ratings on goodreads are high..so I kept reading on. And my patience and faith eventually paid off. Its not a regular story as we read but one that has quite a few surprises up its sleeve..along with some shocks too. It has some blend scenes of Harry Potter and Twilight as far as I could recognize but they are altered to fit the plot. Coming to the story, Matthew is a millennium old vampire who has been waiting on the fringes of time and wiling his time as a professor ...