Review: The Serpent in Heaven

The Serpent in Heaven by Charlaine Harris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy Moley, this was a great book! I hadn't loved the series up until this book. Yes, this is a Young Adult book (more or less) all about Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's half-sister, who is now studying magic, among other things, at the Grigori Rasputin school. She is a relative of Rasputin and is a blood donor to the new Tsar.

She is finding her way, thinking she doesn't have much magic-but, SURPRISE! She has a very unique magic.

In this book, her estranged (and hated) Grandfather from her mother's side is trying to kidnap and maybe even kill her. Things heat up when she is kidnapped, and deaths happen.

There is a bit of romance and a great mystery, and I sure do hope there will be at least one more book about Felicia and her friends.


*ARC supplied by the publisher Saga Press, an imprint of Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster, Edelweiss, and the author Charlaine Harris author of The Sookie Stackhouse series, among other books and series.

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Book Summary: The Serpent in Heaven

(Gunnie Rose #4)

by Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)

 4.11  ·   Rating details ·  56 ratings  ·  25 reviews

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series.

"Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she's seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. Felicia turns out to be far more than the Russian-Mexican Lizbeth rescued. As Felicia’s history unravels and her true abilities become known, she becomes under attack from all directions. Only her courage will keep her alive."