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Inner Demon (eBook)
| Inner Demon | |
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 Inner Demon eBook Cover, written by Alison Crowley | |
| Author(s) | Alison Crowley |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | December 4, 2024 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 22 Pages |
| ASIN | B0DPLPJPFX |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Inner Demon is an eBook written by Alison Crowley. In this work the character the unnamed main character is an Sha'noka which can be described as a kind of Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Inner Demon
- Author: Alison Crowley
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 22 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0DPLPJPFX
- Publishing Date: December 4, 2024
Plot Summary
They always leave. That's the rule. No attachments, no complications—just a night of passion, then they’re out the door.
But John broke the rule. He stayed. And now I can feel the darkness stirring. The monster inside me, clawing to get out, fueled by lust and hunger. I told him to leave, begged him to save himself. He didn’t listen.
You see, I’m not like other women. There’s something ancient and insatiable living inside me, a force I’ve fought to control for years. It feeds on desire, and when I lose control... people don’t come back the same.
Now, someone from my past has returned—a woman I thought I’d destroyed, a woman who says she can help me tame the beast. But she doesn’t know how deep the darkness runs.
How do you hold onto love when your very touch could ruin everything?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on May 25, 2025
Love and passion are dangerous things, but for one soul the true danger is the other side of themselves they cannot control. A darkness without mercy who devours anyone who dares to be intimate and stay with them. There is no escape when the darkness takes control, but even in the darkness, light cannot be taken away forever.
The work is a mix of light horror with some erotic heat around the edges to drive the story and characters forward. Told from the perspective of the main character, its somewhat flat in emotion at times, occasionally searching for meaning in the dialogue as well. It tries very much to allow the darker part of the main character to come into focus, but that is also very thin in how things are written and explored, leaving a lot left unsaid.
The main character’s other side is something near to being a succubus, but isn’t quite one. They are more of a monster, a nightmare, the raw sexuality is with the main character in their human form. They are dangerous, it consumes them and the ones they are with, but doesn’t delve into why things are. There is a very short reveal at the climax of the story, but it doesn’t feel satisfying.
The work needs another editing to bring more colour to the dialogue, to express the dangers better than they are. Much of what needs to be explore is hidden in the shadows and takes away from the story as a result. With that said, it is an intriguing story, and it is interesting to see what happens. But there are points at which what isn’t said means a lot more than what is and that brings a lot of questions never explored well enough.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
The work offers a lot to develop the main character, to tell about what they are and to come to a close that was really a surprise. At the same time it’s all so very vague and uncertain, a reflection of the main character themselves in many ways. I do find myself wondering how things came to be, why the main character is possessed in this way. It’s the question of what comes next that really matters and that just is left as a question and it really needed to be explored. Either in a postscript or another work. As things are it all feels too unfinished and that’s a shame.