Serpent & Dove
A witch and a witch-hunter are forced into marriage by a public misunderstanding neither can undo. The premise is the whole engine, and the book knows it — every scene is two people who should kill each other being obliged to share a room. On the House's scale it rates 2 for spice (warm), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Readers who want enemies to lovers with a completed trilogy behind it.
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How it rates
- Author
- Shelby Mahurin
- Series
- Serpent & Dove, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 2 out of 5, Warm2/5 · Warm
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 3/5
- Worldbuilding
- 3/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Belterra, a French-inflected kingdom burning witches
- Audience
- Adult
On the spice rating One explicit scene late on. The rest is antagonism at close quarters. How the scale works.
Content warnings burning, violence, religious persecution, death.
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