We've been teasing the sex snakes for weeks…the sex snakes are here.
Our August book club pick is Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube, and this is the full spoiler discussion.
We get into all of it. The claw, where it goes and what it is made of. The blood that turns into gold. Whether Caspen's personality survives part two. Whether this even counts as a love triangle. And the quote we all texted each other about, which we cannot print here.
A WARNING…we split this one(get it??). Plot first. Around the 52 minute mark it gets explicit. Genuinely explicit. If you are one of our parents, that is your stop.
CURRENTLY READING
Andrew — Delivering Justice and Steel Song (Silas Sinclair), Hometown Hero, and Dungeon Crawler Carl on audio
Holly — Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (Kirsten Miller)
CJ — More Than Friends (Cat Singleton), Our Secret Summer (R.S. Grey), The Hot Shot
TROPES: monster romance, why choose, fated mates, love triangle, forced proximity, class divide, virgin heroine
SPICE: As high as it goes. This is the most explicit episode we have recorded.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Extremely explicit sexual content; dubious consent and attempted sexual coercion; sexual content in non-human form; a sexual ritual involving the love interest's father; sexual injury; blood, violence, body horror, and petrification. In the current reads segment: book banning, antisemitism and Holocaust content, domestic violence, and sibling death from terminal illness.
ALSO MENTIONED
PS I Hate You · The Selection · Challengers · Fourth Wing
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