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Death and the Succubus (eBook)
| Death and the Succubus | |
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 Death and the Succubus eBook Cover, written by Jason Venter | |
| Author(s) | Jason Venter |
| Series | Chronicles of an Amateur Reaper |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | November 13, 2022 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 283 Pages |
| ASIN | B0BMD1YMT8 |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Death and the Succubus is an eBook written by Jason Venter. It is the fourth work in the Chronicles of an Amateur Reaper series by this author. In this work the character Amber is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Death and the Succubus
- Author: Jason Venter
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 283 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0BMD1YMT8
- Publishing Date: November 13, 2022
Plot Summary
Working as an amateur reaper for Azrael, an angel of death, Molly Coyle faces dangerous adversaries all the time. Now she's picking up the pieces following a personal loss she never saw coming, and her employer seems to have decided she can use some rest.
Liam, her friend on the Salem police force, has other ideas. He brings her onto a case that he insists has all the earmarks of a supernatural presence. Molly is dubious at first, but the deeper she dives, the more valid her friend's concerns appear. Somewhere in the city's back alleys, a malevolent force is hatching a scheme that has already produced a trail of victims.
Determined to find the culprit behind the mayhem, Molly launches a new investigation that drags her through Salem's seedy underbelly and brings her face to face with a powerful creature straight out of her nightmares. Liam is eager to help with the investigation, but will his aid be enough to prevent the amateur reaper from suffering further loss?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on February 28, 2023
There comes a point where the past catches up to you and for Molly, that moment has arrived and it’s doing her no good at all. But there is no rest when the wicked are on the loose and the wicked that awaits Molly is nothing like she’s encountered before.
The work is a well-told mystery with a bit of adventure around the edges to carry the characters along. Mixed with that comes a good deal of character development for Molly, the main character which I thought was quite interesting.
While the title of this work offers a succubus to be found, this really isn’t a succubus story overall. There is a succubus character to be found, eventually, but she’s very much a minor character and exists for the purpose of pulling strings from behind the scenes before being revealed.
Amber, the succubus of the work, reads very two-dimensionally as a character. There’s little depth to her, there’s even less told about her before the confrontation comes to pass. Her personality is somewhat interesting, but there’s so little of that appearing, and in such a short space of time, really nothing comes of it. She’s evil and very stereotypically so and once the story moves to the confrontation between Molly and Amber, it felt too rushed with really no payoff at the end.
Being that Amber, as a character, is a means to push the larger narrative onwards, it’s disappointing that she wasn’t more present in the work. Some seduction, plotting, even more of a mind control aspect of her powers being used on others would have been interesting. But she is a minor character, and as such she couldn’t be more than she was written to be. It’s still a shame as she could have been a lot more interesting as an evil mastermind plotting from the background in different forms to cause confusion and mistrust. If nothing else, that would have put a few more twists i the tale to delight in.
Three out of five pitchforks.
This really isn’t overall a succubus story. It is however an interesting mystery to watch unfold and see where it takes the characters. But Amber is a fleeting presence, amounting to so very little and it’s a shame she wasn’t more of a foil than what she turned out to be.