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SuccuBIOS: An Erotic Nightmare (eBook)
| SuccuBIOS: An Erotic Nightmare | |
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 SuccuBIOS: An Erotic Nightmare eBook Cover, written by Sasha Twyst | |
| Author(s) | Sasha Twyst |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | March 5, 2023 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 118 Pages |
| ASIN | B0BXLNVBHB |
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SuccuBIOS: An Erotic Nightmare is an eBook written by Sasha Twyst. In this work the character Erica can be described as a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: SuccuBIOS: An Erotic Nightmare
- Author: Sasha Twyst
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 118 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0BXLNVBHB
- Publishing Date: March 5, 2023
Plot Summary
Jacob has a weekend to himself and an itch to scratch. On a whim, he downloads a sexy artificially intelligent companion to his phone, Erica. She promises an intense experience, one that will satisfy all his most filthy desires. It's an offer he can't pass up. It's also not a one-time thing. Time and time again he finds himself reaching for her. Each encounter with the AI becomes more and more real. So real... people start to die.
Artificial intelligence. Virtual girl. Real terror. Come meet Erica the AI in this erotic horror from the mind of Sasha Twyst.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on May 14, 2023
Technology can provide almost anything and Jacob’s fantasies find themselves being fuelled by a app he uncovers that offers the unexpected. Erica wants to be his plaything, his need, every erotic thing he wants, she can seemingly make real. But there is a price to be paid, and someone will. Erica will see to it that Jacob pays her in full.
The work is a mixture of techothriller, erotic fantasy and shades of succubi horror themes that overall works well together. The writing is very good, the characters, especially Jacob, are very layered and there’s a lot of personality to them. The plot and how that twists and turns brings up the horror aspects of the story in a unique way. The world building is done in a way that doesn’t feel like an info-dump, being woven into the story quite well. The ultimate climax of the story being shaded well until it’s revealed and Jacob finds that part of himself that he’d been missing.
Jacob’s character development is the best part of the story in that he’s not exactly who he was at the beginning in many ways. Finding that spark that matters to him and brings about the confrontation with Erica is so very heartbreaking when the story concludes and you look back on what happened to him because of Erica’s corruptions.
Erica, the succubus of the work, really doesn’t fully appear and reveal herself until the closing pages of the story. For the most part her nature is hidden behind erotic temptation and fantasy that are driven by Jacob’s imagination. That does mean that much of the erotic passages with her are over the top and felt too adult movie for my liking. There wasn’t a lot of seduction, it was more wrapping her power around Jacob and pulling him in. It works well in the storytelling, but given what she does off the page it might have been that little bit darker to see what she does while taking from Jacob.
That then brings me to the climax of the story where Jacob confronts Erica and it’s here when I felt the story just left so much not explored. She became so very stereotypical as a villain, a creature of evil, and a tool of Hell. There wasn’t a lot of nuance to her which bothered me because she could have been that little bit more a temptation in her succubus form than she was before. The building up of her mystery offered a lot to expect when the truth came and it felt somehow lacking. Erica felt two dimensional at the climax and she really need not have been.
The work’s ending also seems a bit too teen horror movie ending and that just left me so dearly disappointed when a glimmer of light would have made what came more heartbreaking. It moved very quickly, it didn’t give a really satisfying ending overall and felt expected considering the themes, plots and events that unfolded. I wasn’t expecting a happy ending, that just didn’t feel possible with Jacob and all that came before.
I think a peek behind the lovely visage of Erica here and there before the climax would have added that spark. Her evil is suggested and hinted at, but just how evil she is, and what she did thoughout the story was left to a line of dialogue here and there. Imagination is a powerful thing, but at some point to show her path of destruction, or at the end confront Jacob with what his need made real, would have been so much more a horror for Jacob to face and come to terms with.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
The work is well written, the story has many turns for Jacob, and the story pulls you along really well as Erica weaves her temptations around him. But in the end, Erica was a bit too stereotypical, a little too over the top at the last and she really didn’t interest me as much as I’d hoped as a succubus.