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After Dark (eBook)
| After Dark | |
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 After Dark eBook Cover, written by Sahara Silver | |
| Author(s) | Sahara Silver |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | November 28, 2023 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 78 Pages |
| ASIN | B0CP65PRXL |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
After Dark is an eBook written by Sahara Silver. In this work the character Onyxa is a Succubus and the character Miko is an Incubus.
Overview
- Title: After Dark
- Author: Sahara Silver
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 78 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0CP65PRXL
- Publishing Date: November 28, 2023
Plot Summary
For her whole life, Onyxa has made peace with never finding love. Being a succubus tends to get in the way of building relationships since they feed on lust. In her free time, she reads books about the kind of love she’s always craved, knowing it’s the only way she could experience it. She works at the night club, After Dark, which caters to all possible needs and cravings of the supernatural community. She’s kept the same routine for many years, going to work, satisfying her clients, and going home alone. But an unexpected encounter throws her world upside down.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on April 23, 2024
Onyxa has a wish, but being a succubus it’s never going to happen. One cannot find love in a sea of lust, it’s more likely you’ll be drowned in the desire of others not your own. Sometimes there is a chance offered to make a change, but the question becomes if those who offer are trapped by mutual lust or is it really love they all are seeking.
The work is a slow burn piece of erotica which mixes a very strong domination theme with some supernatural aspects. It’s a unique setting, the characters have some very complicated pasts and as for what draws them together, that’s a complication on its own. There are a couple of really well done erotic scenes that are described wonderfully and added the heat the story needed as a whole.
Onyxa, the succubus of the story, is something of a cypher in that she reflects on herself and her wants, but leaves a lot of her inner self shaded away. She’s not stereotypical by any means, being more about needing sex to survive and otherwise being so dearly a draw to others because of her nature. But it’s a heartless passion and that holds her back in the story overall.
Similarly, the incubus of the work, Miko, offers some fascinating aspects to consider, but there’s a darker side of him that removes a lot of the passions that otherwise could have been. He feels a bit dislikable for a reason I can’t quite put my finger on exactly. Then comes the vampire of the story Sylas, who is a bit more open with himself, and that sets up a trio of characters that need each each other, but can’t seem to really connect in a loving satisfying way.
It’s a slightly odd story and that comes mainly through where Onyxa begins in the story and how that becomes turned towards something she didn’t seem to want by the end. It’s not a story about love so much as lust and that’s a very important distinction.
The work could use an editing pass, mainly to make the dialogue read better, at times it is rather wooden and lacking emotion. As well the narrative could be cleaned up to be more descriptive than it is. It reads like there are some bits and pieces missing and being so, seems like part of the story isn’t told which is a shame.
Where the story ends felt a bit tacked on in that it doesn’t really give a satisfying conclusion to what the characters have found themselves entwined in. The balance of the work is so complicated and seeking itself that how things are tied up, in more than one way, felt almost dismissive in a way.
Three out of five pitchforks.
I’d have liked more time spent in telling more about the existence of succubi and incubi. I’d have liked to learn more about Onyxa om a far deeper way. Similarly both Miko and Sylas could use more introspective moments to explain their personalities better. How the work closes makes this a complete story, but at the same time there’s aspects of the characters left wanting and I wish they hadn’t been.