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Succubus Dungeon: Divine Overlord (eBook)
| Succubus Dungeon: Divine Overlord | |
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 Succubus Dungeon: Divine Overlord eBook Cover, written by Eden Redd | |
| Author(s) | Eden Redd |
| Series | Succubus Dungeon |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Publishing |
| Publication date | January 15, 2020 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 260 Pages |
| ASIN | B083YYL41J |
| Preceded by | Succubus Dungeon |
| Followed by | Succubus Dungeon: Shadow Alliance |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Succubus Dungeon: Divine Overlord is an eBook written by Eden Redd. It is the second work in the Succubus Dungeon series by this author. In this work several characters are Succubi.
Overview
- Title: Succubus Dungeon: Divine Overlord
- Author: Eden Redd
- Published By: Amazon Digital Publishing
- Length: 260 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B083YYL41J
- Publishing Date: January 15, 2020
Other Works in this Series on SuccuWiki
Plot Summary
A pact sealed in dark magic, Lucian has now become a Dungeon Core and his life will never be the same in the digital fantasy world of Lukken. Surrendering himself to the Succubus Queen, the former mage has been blessed and cursed to carry out Queen Systra's commands of increasing her power and finding her eight elemental daughters. Their power added to his own, will make the Dungeon Core near unstoppable. But Lucian has his own plans of restoring balance to Lukken and fixing a world bathed in light. Reborn deep underground, Lucian must create his dungeon, find the demon elementals and keep his few dwellers in line if he hopes to survive and lead the Queen's dark crusade. Can Lucian gather enough power before the surface world notices his presence and sends warriors to crack his very core?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on September 26, 2023
Lucian enjoys adventure and a challenge. What he doesn’t expect is to encounter succubi with a plan and a purpose. How will he resist their powers, how will be avoid being seduced by them. Perhaps the larger question is, does he really want to, and if that’s true, then what does he really want?
The series is a mixture of fantasy-magic adventure and erotica which mainly focuses on Lucian and all of the succubi he encounters through the adventure. As the succubi are, overall, the focus on the story, even beyond Lucian himself, the seductive aspects of the story, the plotting and scheming that happens is just a lot of fun to watch unfold.
The erotica mixes in several different themes, all of which have some sort of succubus connection. There’s lovely heat in these moments, the succubi are wonderfully sensual in all of their forms and that makes the story work well with the erotica, it’s not just there for the sake of it. What’s particularly nice is that each succubi has their own preferences and desires, which allow the erotica to be something different for each. It’s not cookie cutter, nor does it read as being repetitive either.
The succubi themselves, and there are a lot of them in this series, range from being completely evil to sort of evil to something near to good. Mind you, the question of good might be more to their sensuality and how powerful they are. But they are still so very captivating characters with stories to tell, personalities that are clear and different too.
There are points at which the succubi are a bit more monstrous than seductive, but that’s more caused by the story events than anything else. It’s when the story allows them to tell their story, to become more than just being in the story and developing their characters to push the story onwards that I found them to be exquisite.
The series as a whole works really well to tell the story and the various succubi characters not being the same stereotypical trope for the most part is a lot of fun. The problem, at least for me, are the stats for the characters that keep appearing throughout the story. It took me out of what was happening far too often.
It’s particularly a bother when something happens, a battle ends, Lucian manages to succeed at something, and then the stats appear to interrupt the story. It’s more irritating when the characters themselves are aware of the stats and then comment on them. It’s too disruptive for my taste and I honestly found myself trying to skim over those moments to get back into the story as much as possible.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
While Lucian’s story is wonderfully told and the succubi brought me no end of delight, it’s the LitRPG aspects that take something away for me. I’m not sure that aspect really added a lot to the story, nor do I think they really mattered all that much. I would like to see a further work in the series, there are a number of dangling plot threads left untold. This particular adventure has run its course but when there are succubi involved, one never knows what they might be scheming and that’s the fun part after all.