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Lethia: Demonic Desire (eBook)
| Lethia: Demonic Desire | |
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 Lethia: Demonic Desire eBook Cover, written by Saria Darkwood | |
| Author(s) | Saria Darkwood |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | November 8, 2017 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 15 Pages |
| ASIN | B0779BWL5N |
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Lethia: Demonic Desire is an eBook written by Saria Darkwood. In this work the character Lethia is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Lethia: Demonic Desire
- Author: Saria Darkwood
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 15 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0779BWL5N
- Publishing Date: November 8, 2017
Plot Summary
Enter the life of Lethia, a Succubi who relishes her existence as a seductive temptress. She is bent on the moral destruction of anyone she chooses. For so long, Lethia has found pleasure at the expense of those under her spell and their inability to resist her. Now she has found her newest victim, a devout man that she is longing to corrupt. Only, Lethia’s new prey may be more than she bargained for.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on November 14, 2017
The hunger within Lethia presses her to consume the lusts of others. It’s a need that, for her, is most satisfying when her control is almost, but not quite, lost. On the edge she spies her next meal, hunting and confronting him. But some humans aren’t quite what they seem and sometimes the light within them is the most delicious meal of all.
The work is a short hot flash which I thought did well in telling Lethia’s story, explaining her past and the encounters she’s been in before. Her reflections on the reactions of those that she has fed on are quite telling, and honestly I’d have liked the author to tell more of those before the core plot of the story came into being. Not so much for the heat, but how Lethia seduced and enthralled others so there was something to compare her actions in this work to.
Lethia seems to be wild, on the edge, and that’s mainly to her allowance of the need and hunger to control her. That’s a dangerous thing for a succubus to do and as the story turns towards the climax, that’s core to what comes next. Sometimes the hunter and prey switch roles and when that happens, the heat sometimes doesn’t quite play out well.
I’m avoiding telling who Lethia is attracted to because that’s something which, when the heat comes, tells something about her kind and the hunger which I think on its own needs to be told. There’s something delicious about the coupling, the need in both characters and more. I couldn’t help but smile as Emrick and Lethia came, both in an understanding and erotically.
The work ends far too soon and the ending itself just needs something to follow this work. It’s an amazingly open point, one that, for me, is dearly attractive. Overall, I liked this work not for the erotica, but rather the theological musing I have from the story which some will understand.
There are a number of spelling and word errors in the work, but more so, the issue with the writing is the rush to move through the story so quickly. There’s no time for reflection, to muse about Lethia and what’s going on really. That’s a reflection of the drive within her of course, but that didn’t work for me. The heat is a bit over the top, bordering on tipping over the edge into something that’s dark and nasty, but the author managed to avoid that.
The story is too rushed as a whole. There is some character development, but it’s more to tell of who Lethia is and why she’s attracted to the other in this work. The ending is too abrupt and there’s a need for another editing pass to allow the story to flow better.
I liked Lethia for her not being completely stereotypical, but perhaps what’s missing here is something of a revelation between her and the other character in this work. That piece of the puzzle might very well have made this a lot more than it is.
Three out of five pitchforks.
There needs to be a story to follow this one. There’s a really interesting last line that is double-edged and telling that story with these characters would be something to see. The light calling to a succubus isn’t impossible. It’s what the succubus does with the light that I find fascinating.