Reviews

Divide & Conquer by Madeleine Urban, Abigail Roux

notruse's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

fresholivebread's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 Ty and Zane get caught up in the storm of domestic terrorism. They're currently in a good place in their relationship, with them being happier and more open. And all their sweet and sexy couple-y moments are 👩🏻‍🍳😘. The little domestic scenes (Zane cooking!) are gold, and the underlying affection in their banter are some of the best parts. 

The action is a straightforward chase for the baddies, but they do keep getting bombed and stuff. That brings on some really great hurt/comfort and caretaking moments, with Zane coming to realise and admit how much he actually loves Ty. And I loved that Ty *knew*, even without the words. There's slight OM drama, which I wasn't a fan of, but it isn't major. But

WTF was that ending?? It better be fixed early in the next book (which is currently checked out at my library 😭)

Note: this book is currently no longer available due to publishing disputes - I read a library copy.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

fae_princess_in_space's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

Goddamn this series is just so good. In this one we have more of my literally favourite fictional couple of all time being badass, being vulnerable and being hilarious as heck. This book had a whole lot of hurt/comfort and I just live for that. 

There are bombs being set off across the city, banks being robbed and the FBI being targeted. This book was a difficult read in places because the boys just seemed so vulnerable. Zane is seriously hurt after an explosion and loses his eyesight temporarily and this causes stress on his and Ty’s relationship. It was claustrophobic as Zane struggled to adapt and fretted about Ty feeling cooped up, and Ty just wanting to help Zane and fix him but not being able to. 

We finally, FINALLY got our declaration of love out of Zane but holy hell, there is a cliffhanger… you’re gonna want to have armed and dangerous queued up right away on your kindle my friends!! 

ann13reads's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

atlab101's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny tense fast-paced

4.0

k_a_r_e_n_b's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

papasfritass's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

southernwind's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

A decade or so late to the party but grateful I found these infuriating yet heartbreakinglly beautiful boys. Cliffhanger in the end is killin me. Armed & Dangerous like a siren call atm though. Urgh!  ISTG, Imma go for Warrior's Cross first even if it kills me. 

jamiesbookaddiction's review

5.0

I really am loving this series. Ty and Zane are the perfect partners. They work really well together and always seem to know what the other needs/wants.

I was glad to see that Ty decided to come out to his Marine buddies. I'm really hoping they decide to come out to their work soon.

As usual, this ends on a cliffhanger which honestly ticked me off a little. I feel like these guys are old enough to be over this kind of crap...sigh

It was still a great book, but damn I'm so tired of one of them pulling some immature crap because they can't deal.

book_symbiosis's review

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was definitely the best one yet! The mystery/crime plot continues to be very weak, but their romantic storyline was actually good! The characters were much more developed and some scenes were actually emotional and heartbreaking. 
I’m still unsure about the ending, it might be very good or very bad, depending on how the authors proceed in the next book (the reason they come up with, basically).