Status Updates From Venom & Vow

...i still feel like i don't understand why cade has to pretend to be patrick. because patrick doesn't know how to fight for some reason but cade does, so they have cade pretend??? but like why doesn't patrick know lol??? he's a prince??? what???

the argument about "oh no, they have to marry the people they don't like" lol?? that happened in history?? oh well?? could still be a win?
also was that sex? abstract sex?

i am... so confused???

why were they at the place with the monks for so long. and then they just see the animals and they're like ok time to go??? and then he just starts fighting his brother lmfao and i mean patrick was right that cade was ditching like ??????

also the mystery STINKS i've been onto lowell this whole time just because he's shady COME ONNN where's the CLUES where's the INTRIGUE

I really enjoy the idea of this trans monk conclave situation. that's cool!!!

can i just say though that the enemies part of this book really dragged for me, like we all know neither of them did the spell, can we please GET to the part where we start INVESTIGATING who did it!!!!! we've got a mystery on our hands!!!!!

"let me take you." "I let her take me." whoa ok. whoa

oh wow. that dance/fight. i loved the "everything heightened, the smells, the surroundings" that was cool

such a good concept. all of their parents are asleep and these teenagers are wildly struggling to rule in their absence. love a trans prince and an enby lady(themby?)-in-waiting. I just... the pacing is so weird? the plot itself confuses me?? I feel like they keep making kind of strange decisions and expecting normal results lol.

what's keeping me going is guessing the enchantress...

Finally had the chance to sit with this a good while and. The pacing is weird? I'll go back and reread the previous paragraph only to realize no it does sort of drop off into the next scene weirdly. Unexplained things appearing in scenes, weird shifts in time. That sea monster is criminal though. The whole thing happening in the span of a page had me WHEEZING.

I'm not super invested yet... darn!

I could be won over but something about it just reads on a side of silly that I can't get immersed in. maybe it was valencia's angel of death thing??