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Darkness (eBook)
| Darkness | |
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 Darkness eBook Cover, written by Eden Winters | |
| Author(s) | Eden Winters |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | June 1, 2024 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 442 Pages |
| ASIN | B0CY9ZJR45 |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Darkness is an eBook written by Eden Winters. In this work the character Jessa is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Darkness
- Author: Eden Winters
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 442 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0CY9ZJR45
- Publishing Date: June 1, 2024
Plot Summary
Darkness follows Lieutenant Morrisey James.
As an Atlanta PD detective, Morrisey understands the worst atrocities the city has to offer—or believes he does. His recent cases present something new: a killer who unleashes unbridled terror in victims before moving in for the kill. Morrisey has an edge, though, the terrifying ability to gain flashes of insight from each victim.
Most people assume Farren Austin is a shallow, pretty boy, but he’s so much more. Agent Austin keeps secrets as part of the FBI’s Alternate Entities Task Force, a unit created to monitor travelers from another realm. Although they might look human, they’re anything but.
And they’ve taken a special interest in Morrisey.
Partnered with Farren, Morrisey finds himself in the middle of demons trying to possess his body, a succubus sidekick who wants to cook him breakfast, accusations of being a powerful destructive force, and a growing number of people calling him “Darkness.” Not to mention a sudden overwhelming attraction to his new partner.
It’s going to take the mysterious Farren’s help to keep the latest case from being Morrisey’s last.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on January 3, 2025
Morrisey’s life has been hell from the beginning. Loss after loss, the only constant is his pain and the bottle that waits for him. A chance encounter reveals a world unexpected with its own problems, but as well there’s a glimmer of light too. Justice will be served, it’s the one thing he has been able to keep hold of and perhaps Farren, his new partner again crime will offer something for them both.
The work is mainly a murder mystery wrapped around a fantasy adventure theme. It’s complicated, fast paced, and gives a lot to consider as the mystery unravels. The characters are well written and how they develop over the story works really well.
There is a very strong m/m erotica theme that develops as the main characters are drawn together that was delightful to see. The erotica fits the characters well, there’s passion, conflict and a slow building of understanding that just was everything to bring the story to its climax and give meaning to all else that happened.
Jessa, the succubus of the work, isn’t at all stereotypical and while she appears at first to be somewhat so, as things progress and more is revealed about her, it’s very telling and unique. She gives a different view of things, both in a world view and a view seen through the eyes of a succubus. Her existence, the choices she has made and how she being a succubus and how the overall story works with regards to souls, was just so very unexpected. It gives Jessa a kind of ‘succubus with a heart of gold’ touch to her and that was just captivating.
With all that said, the evil presence in the story was a bit too stereotypical for me. The final conflict also pushed that aspect to the limit and while it needed to be so for the sake of tying up loose ends and getting the characters to where they needed to be, it just felt odd. Much of that was in the very over the top dialogue from them, or the described expressions which did make them eminently unlikeable, but that was the point of course.
Four out of five pitchforks.
This is not a story about a succubus, but rather a story with a succubus on the fringes of it. It’s a shame that Jessa wasn’t really explored, that save for some information in passing there was little revealed about the succubi in this universe. That’s something which the author might think about if they ever write a follow on story. There’s a lot to explore there and I dearly wish it had been.