Ashra’s Reviews > Venom & Vow > Status Update

"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??