five fucking stars ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰

MORE BASILISK SMUT PLEASE 
BITCH THE SCENE AT THE END. INSPIRED BY CHALLENGERS ?!?!? UM MORE OF THAT TOO 😮‍💨🥵

YEAAAAAHHHH this was excellent. I was a bit worried I would lose interest since it’s 700+ pages but NOPE that shit was addicting. Loved the world building & the character development. 

Yall know Caspen was getting on my nerves with all his secrets & his half truths, but he turned it around at the end. and WHEW does he know his way around a woman’s body 😮‍💨😮‍💨 
Leo is SO baby girl, so precious, so darling. I just love him so much. but he’s got the DAWG in him too - WOOF
 
I loved Tem’s growth in this. She went from chicken shit bitch, to THAT Bitch 💅🏽 and you better put some respect on her name and treat her accordingly. 

I love how both of the men complimented Tem and helped her come into her own womanhood, femininity & sexual desires in different ways. 

Some parts of the ending felt a bit rushed and/or glossed over especially about the human King (not me completely blanking on his name lmao), and the freeing of the bloodletting basilisks, but overall a satisfying ending. 




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ngl the actual ending did kind of piss me off… I wanted Leo & Tem to stay together, but he def still very much loved Evelyn .. him visiting the graveyard every morning in case she came back.. HELLO?!?!! We love the YEARNING.
& Tem couldn’t full commit to him in a way that he deserved so I get it. But DAMN that almost made me cry. I really wanted to see the 3 of them fix the kingdom and coexist together 🥺