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After Her Death (eBook)
| After Her Death | |
|---|---|
 After Her Death eBook Cover, written by Laran Mithras | |
| Author(s) | Laran Mithras |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | February 4, 2013 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 17 Pages |
| ASIN | B00BBL1Q50 |
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After Her Death is an eBook written by Laran Mithras. In this work one of the characters has Succubus-like aspects to them.
Overview
- Title: After Her Death
- Author: Laran Mithras
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 17 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B00BBL1Q50
- Publishing Date: February 4, 2013
Plot Summary
Dorothy sells a widower a reputedly haunted home. She yearns to be loved and cared for but is trapped in a loveless marriage. She looks to the lonely man and strives to make a connection with him before he withdraws into his equally lonely Victorian.
Randy loses his wife to a drunk driver and sets off to fulfill their retirement dream of seclusion in some dying town away from the crowd. He knows the overgrown Victorian no one wants to buy is the house for him. But he loses himself inside the house and realizes he cannot cope with the loss of his wife.
He knows both he and Dorothy could use the comfort and support each other could provide, but it is too soon after his loss, and the Victorian has other ideas. As his nightmares worsen, the house makes a move to consume him before Dorothy can intervene.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on June 20, 2014
The story does tend towards the horror side of things at least for me with the occasional bit of erotica appearing. There is a Succubus of a sort in this work, but again she tends towards the horror aspects rather than the erotic ones overall. That is not to say there are not some good erotic moments in this work, not by any means. It is simply that for me at least they are overwhelmed by the horror of the story.
There are many many things that just make this work hard to read for me, one of the main ones is Randy himself in that the darkness settles over him and in doing so it envelopes everyone else around him. There is a huge sense of loss, of not being able to continue on. It makes all of the moments between himself and Dorothy poorer and strained.
In that comes a feeling that there is no hope, no glimmer of anything like it. I find that hard to take and as such the work just didn’t connect with me that I could enjoy it. The writing is very good, the characters as well… But a story of loss and that mixed with horror just is a little too much for my liking.
I’m giving this work two out of five pitchforks.
I just could not find my way into the story as much as I wanted to do so. That likely has everything to do with my not really enjoying horror all that much. As such, for me I didn’t enjoy it all that much. For others that enjoy some horror with their suspense, this probably would be liked more I would expect…