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Ice Palace (eBook)
| Ice Palace | |
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 Ice Palace eBook Cover, written by Gemma Wolf | |
| Author(s) | Gemma Wolf |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | July 17, 2024 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 195 Pages |
| ASIN | B0D9NXM325 |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Ice Palace is an eBook written by Gemma Wolf. In this work the character Angelique and her mother are Succubi.
Overview
- Title: Ice Palace
- Author: Gemma Wolf
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 195 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0D9NXM325
- Publishing Date: July 17, 2024
Plot Summary
Angelique loves fairy tales, but she has no intention of marrying a prince, as her parents arranged upon her birth. After all, she has never even met Lucent, who lives across the ocean, and she does not want to leave her home or the boy next door, Sebastian. Then she learns she must also contend with the dangerous abilities and needs she inherited from her mother, a succubus. Can she control them or will they overwhelm her? And what of Sebastian and Lucent?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on January 28, 2025
There are plans afoot and Angelique finds herself carried away by them. Things are out of control, but she must remain true to herself. But her heart is held by another, who she cannot be with, for there is yet another who needs her as well. Not everything is a fairy tale with a happy ending, but Angelique will try to make her own story and path in the world.
The work is a mixture of fantasy adventure, mystery and romance which tells a complex story about the needs of one, Angelique, versus the needs of those around her. While there are some moments of erotica, they are a means to an end rather then being titular in how they are presented. It is mainly a character driven work, the plot and development of the main characters is very telling and asks a lot of them by the time their story is told.
With that said, it’s less a succubus story than a story in which the main character is partly a succubus in her being. Angelique, while being described as a succubus, and having some aspects of being one, is very much a unique sort. There are no horns or tail to be seen, she doesn’t have the typical appearance of a succubus as well.
As for her abilities, the story mainly focuses on her dream walking ones, a bit told about her sexual needs and how to deal with them, as well as some other ones in passing. Still, the story doesn’t really use her being a succubus as much as telling of the political and relationship aspects around her and how they turn out. When her powers are in force, that’s quite interesting, especially in the dreamscapes she enters, the bit of mind control she uses on occasion as well.
But this isn’t focused on Angelique being a succubus to drive the story forwards or create complications or conflict as a result. There’s so much else going on that her succubus nature becomes secondary to the main plot and outcomes.
The postscript which closes this work felt too tacked for me. I think it would have been far more interesting if the character that appears there would have done so here and there in the story to add what felt like the missing piece of the puzzle that Angelique represents.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
Perhaps there will be another work to follow, perhaps not. If there is, it would be nice to explore succubi in this universe more, to see something of their society or, if nothing else, tell the story of Angelique’s mother. It is those questions left behind that I wonder about after all.