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I like my men Medium Rare: A Succubus Love Story (eBook)
| I like my men Medium Rare: A Succubus Love Story | |
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 I like my men Medium Rare: A Succubus Love Story eBook Cover, written by Amy Lamb | |
| Author(s) | Amy Lamb |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | June 12, 2025 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 144 Pages |
| ASIN | B0FD4NQCPS |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
I like my men Medium Rare: A Succubus Love Story is an eBook written by Amy Lamb. In this work the characters Selene, Marisol and Evelyn are Succubi.
Overview
- Title: I like my men Medium Rare: A Succubus Love Story
- Author: Amy Lamb
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 144 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0FD4NQCPS
- Publishing Date: June 12, 2025
Plot Summary
They say love is eternal. Selene prefers dinner to last no more than an hour, but the foreplay is what you're here for.
Selene is a succubus who isn’t searching for a soulmate. She’s searching for the perfect flavor; strong, tender and just a little bit desperate. Alongside her ravenous sisters, she seduces, devours and disappears into the night. All three sisters have different preferences, but Selene's flavor is Medium Rare, cooked just enough for the man to feel he's in love.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on March 3, 2026
For Selene and her sisters, the world is a feast, the question being how they will pick their way through the buffet before them. There’s no love within them, everything is a game to be played and as for those they attract, they are the ones to be played and the game always ends in the same way.
The work is a mixture of horror, though that is mostly skimmed over, quite a lot of dark humour and strong female domination aspect as well. The focus is on the main character Selene with a bit of an appearance of her two sisters towards the close of the story. It follows her entanglements, how others fall to her, and the inevitable outcome. With this comes a somewhat singular tone in the storytelling that has really very little passion or emotion that isn’t a ploy or simply an act towards others.
The focus is very much on the personas that Selene creates, the men she entraps, and how that moves from a glance towards they falling to the various aspects she presents to each. While each chapter gives rise to a new possibility, there’s something of a repetitive nature that occurs. Selene’s bland emotionless thoughts which appear between the dialogue and narrative just take away from the heat and the seduction which takes time to come back to life before it happens again.
Selene, Marisol and Evelyn are something so very close to stereotypical evil in their nature that there’s really little else to make them more appealing. They have a purpose, the succubus aspects of each suits them well, but it just didn’t become something more than they bring aloof and single-minded and I honesty expected more. The short mention of their mother Lilith and what happened to her and how they came to be was, honestly, the most disappointing thing of all. Given why things happened, not giving a little more time to that, seemed like a part of the story, and possibly the reason as to why they all act as they do, was lost.
As much as the storytelling is amazingly well done, I just found all of the succubi stereotypical, one-dimensional and honestly really had nothing in the way of anything redeeming about them. Now, that is the tone and story and the characters themselves, and that’s all well and good. But when the characters are so dislikeable, it’s so dearly difficult to enjoy the story and keep from just flipping the pages.
Three out of five pitchforks.
With being fully aware from the book summary of the tone and story prior to reading this work, there are some really interesting moments outside of the darker tone and scenes that appear. It’s that aspect that I kept me turning the pages to see if something more would be done with that. To a point it was, but then the story fell back on the hunt and the climax. It’s somewhere between light horror and erotica, which has some appeal. I just wish there was something more to the succubi characters than being so dearly self-absorbed.