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Split or Swallow

Lindsay Straube

3.53 AVERAGE

fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Holy fuck this was so much fun. It's absolutely bonkers and wild, but it's so fun. Go into it knowing NOTHING and be open minded about it, if ya understand the basilisk view point of sex is currency, you'll be fine.
Down a star because of a few things - would have liked a few chapters at the end after the third act.
Ones that show Leo's reunion with Evelyn, the result of King Maximus's cowardice, the other basilisk's being released from under the castle, a filthy reunion chapter between Tem's mum and her basilisk Kronos, Rowe's actions after the crowning of Caspen and Tem, those things, instead of a non-canon threesome scene at the end

I'd read more from the author! A really fun jumping off point into their work.
adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

⭐ 4.5
🌢️ 10
πŸ₯΅ Spicy chapters: almost all of them πŸ˜‚
πŸ“š Tropes/Themes: shifter romance, love triangle, cliffhanger, forced proximity, he falls first and harder, spicy lessons
πŸ‘€ Single POV 1st person 
πŸ’” Triggers: attempted rape

πŸ’¬ Well I'm sure like everybody else has said this book was a WILD ride for sure πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

I definitely spent a lot of time. Just kind of wondering WTAF is going on?

I will probably keep this review short and sweet with limited tropes because I feel like the insanity that happens within these pages just really needs to be experienced without any sort of previews. 

That said, I honestly don't know that I've read a book with this much smut in it before, and I'm not normally a huge fan of a lot of smut in my books, but this was actually really well done. It's classy smut over here folks πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

And I will say too there is a decent amount of plot to this story. Like it could definitely be a 100 pages shorter and still have a ton of spicy scenes. But the plot is actually really good and sucks you in so it's like just stimulating everything out here πŸ˜‚

I definitely preferred the first part of the book over the second part though, because the first part is more focused on what is surprisingly a swoony and sweet romance story. But the second half is where all the drama happens and let me tell you it's some pretty juicy drama. 

My only other complaint is that I wish it had been dual POV, but it works really well as a single POV. 
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was one of the most unhinged books I’ve ever read - it was smut with plot and at some points I will say, it dragged on sooooo much

Main character is insufferable as is the main MMC’s

I acc hope the main character is killed brutally. 
dark tense fast-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
slow-paced