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Split or Swallow

Lindsay Straube

3.54 AVERAGE


Caspen 4ever

I feel like I just read a Wattpad given a budget. Idk if I would pass this book on to anyone else.

DNF 77%. Just couldn’t torture myself anymore. Tem is such an insufferable FMC it’s hard to believe that not one but TWO princes would love her. She has three personality traits: chicken farmer, drinking, and defiance.
challenging medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book put me through a lot of stress but I couldn’t put it down. I was too curious.
emotional tense medium-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

DNFed at 13%
so um are we gonna talk about that pulsing claw?
medium-paced

This was a mess and a half, could’ve been 200 pages shorter and I still would’ve hated it… even the unhinged smut couldn’t make me enjoy myself reading this… all my book club girls disliked this so hard that one of them made a slide show titled ‘why this book sucks’

If I had to read the phrase chicken shit one more time . This book is supposed to be sexy and I’m reading the phrase chicken shit more than I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I didn’t like it before this book and trust me reading about it every other chapter did not help

This book was CRAY. Im excited for book 2
adventurous dark mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Cheers to the author for her very gratuitous, steamy sex scenes! I was seriously impressed at how much it just kept going page after page. Who knew you could write 500+ pages of this kind of spice!? Call me old-fashioned but slightly more plot/world-building or character development would have been appreciated. For example, it seems as if no one but Leo has hobbies (aka- reading books) in this book. What do basilisks do in their free time? Do they really
just have sex  ALL THE TIME
?? That being said, I will definitely be reading the next installment and highly recommend this book if you enjoyed reading the Twilight series back in the day for fun but totally didn't take them very seriously and/or you just need a nice brain-break of a read for the time being in between your next great read. 

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challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I had heard some mixed reviews of this book before reading it, and I’m definitely on the side of liking it! The spiciness of it was so ingrained as part of the plot that it wasn’t as strange to have to thrown around to much as I wouldn’t expected. What I didn’t know is that it’d be a series, and now I have to wait for the next one!!!