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Night of the Succubus (eBook III)
| Night of the Succubus | |
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 Night of the Succubus eBook Cover, written by C. E. Hamilton | |
| Author(s) | C. E. Hamilton |
| Series | The Girls of Innsmunth University |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | May 15, 2023 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 115 Pages |
| ISBN | 9798215380956 |
| ASIN | B0C5GC2TDK |
| Preceded by | Night of the Succubus |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Night of the Succubus is an eBook written by C. E. Hamilton. It is the first work in the Girls of Innsmunth University series by this author. In this work one of the characters is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Night of the Succubus
- Author: C. E. Hamilton
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 115 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0C5GC2TDK
- ISBN: 9798215380956
- Publishing Date: May 15, 2023
Plot Summary
A sinister discovery. Uninvited guests. An obscene exhibition. A group of trespassing college students unearth old sins and unleash an ancient and seductive evil. Can they survive the Night of the Succubus?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on December 26, 2023
It’s so very easy to do the wrong thing when you are young and foolish. Opening an ancient box is foolish. Making a deal with a demon is foolisher. The biggest fools however are those that think they know everything, but all that leads to, is being made the fool.
The work is mainly a story of horror with erotic scenes mixed within the story to bring various characters to their doom. While the evil of the story is a succubus, she’s the stereotypical creature of evil who isn’t much more than that. She isn’t the only one doing evil of course, there are several main characters that are evil in their own ways and that places a certain theme and flavour to the storytelling.
As such, and the author admits this in their comments about the work, it reads very much like a teenage horror/thriller with aspects of adult movie scenes scattered here and there to bring the succubus into the story. As a result, the story tends to lean into the horror movie aspects quite a lot and this makes the succubus of the work, Xissya, so very less interesting than she otherwise might have been.
Xissya is, in almost every respect, as stereotypical as the rest of the characters are. She’s the evil seductress that pulls others in the work under her sway and then has her way with them. That’s a real shame as at a few points there’s a glimmer of something more than that, but it gets washed out by the story needing to get to the next fall, the next piece of erotica, such as it is, and the horrors that Xissya brings with that happening.
The erotica is somewhat uneven in its heat, there’s one scene with Xissya that I did like, but overall the heat builds, comes to the climax and then the expected aftermath of having sex with a creature of evil comes and whatever heat there was gets dampened. Now, that again reflects on the horror themes of the work, and they do make sense. But overall this really wasn’t a work of erotica as it was one about horror.
The writing is set in the teenage horror movie tone and I think the author did really well in making you want to see some characters get their end and for others to somehow overcome Xissya. The angst from the main character is really telling from the beginning, she gets pulled into this disaster and when she discovers what is coming and what she will have to do, that’s a moment when her pain really comes through strongly.
The ending of the work was, very much, expected. However, the way things come to a close leaves a lot of questions left unexplored. I think it’s the ending that saved the story for me. It tied up some threads, gave a bit of reflection as well. There was, of course, the expected reveal at the end, but it was really well done.
Written to its theme, the characters are exactly what you would expect of theme, both in personality and action. Xissya is a succubus, if as stereotypical as every other character in the work and honestly if she was more that would have added a lot for me. Being evil is easy, it’s expected. Being evil and a true seductress, who does more than have sex with her prey and more on to the next morsel, that’s a very complicated character, which is what I enjoy a lot more.
Three out of five pitchforks.
Xissya was, sadly, far too stereotypical a succubus for my liking. She could have been more I think in a lot of ways, but that wasn’t the point of her being part of the story. Similarly I really didn’t like any of the characters, but that’s a reflection of my distaste for teenage horror movie characters that always do the wrong thing.