A review by spacey_ghost
Venom & Vow by Elliott McLemore, Anna-Marie McLemore

Did not finish book. Stopped at 65%.

On paper, this is an amazing concept and I was so excited to read this (and thankful for getting an early copy). However, the execution leaves much to be desired. Right off the bat, it was confusing to make sense of what was going on or why things were the way they were. There's not really an explanation of how each of these kingdoms worked or why some decisions within these kingdoms were made. Why did Cade abdicate when he's going to pretend to be his brother anyways and how does no one who has spent time with the two of them in the same room immediately figure out that they aren't the same person? It's not 100% clear who knows and who doesn't know or why they made this arrangement in the first place. Also I feel there were many chapters where the POV switch was unnecessary and we could've learned the same information within the same POV. There could be something great here, just after a few more rewrites and with longer, more detailed chapters.