The Community Chapter discussion

Kiss of the Basilisk reaches for dark seduction and high-stakes passion, but the result never rises above surface-level theatrics. What could have been a moody, character‑driven fantasy romance instead collapses under its own excesses, reading more like literary pornography than a novel with any meaningful emotional or narrative core.
The characters drift through the pages without depth, motivation, or even a coherent arc. Their interactions feel mechanical rather than magnetic, as if the book assumes that intensity can be manufactured through sheer volume of explicit scenes rather than earned through development or tension. With so little substance anchoring them, the cast becomes interchangeable, and the plot—such as it is—feels like a thin thread stretched between set pieces.
The book clearly wants to position itself as a bold, provocative entry in the genre, but it lands closer to a failed attempt at being the next Fifty Shades of Grey. Instead of reinventing or elevating the formula, it imitates the most superficial elements while missing the emotional stakes and narrative momentum that made that series resonate with its audience.
In the end, it promises danger, desire, and darkness, but delivers a hollow spectacle. Readers looking for sensuality with substance will likely walk away disappointed, wishing the novel had invested half as much energy in storytelling as it did in shock value.

couldn't agree more!!! the fact that there was a lack of a plot, really made it that much harder to read. I kept thinking that maybe a plot would eventually come, but not it never did... Just endless sexual "scenes" that eventually ran together...