Succubus in Scarlet

Succubus in Scarlet
Succubus in Scarlet eBook Cover, written by Xan Asher
Author(s)	Xan Asher
Series	Circle of the Succubus
Publisher	Smashwords Amazon Digital Services
Publication date	October 7, 2012
Media type	eBook
Length	81 Pages
ISBN	9781301687343
ASIN	B009NLDIR4

For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).

Succubus in Scarlet is an eBook written by Xan Asher. It is described as the first work in the Circle of the Succubus series by this author. In this series, the character Julia St Germaine is a Succubus.

Overview

• Title: Succubus in Scarlet
• Author: Xan Asher
• Published By: Smashwords & Amazon Digital Services
• Length: 81 Pages
• ASIN: B009NLDIR4
• ISBN: 9781301687343
• Publishing Date: October 7, 2012

Plot Summary

Julia St Germaine traded her immortal soul for life as a succubus.
 She has everything a woman could want … fast cars, diamonds, eternal beauty and a killer body … literally.


All that and Azhael, her demon conduit to the next world. Azhael is determined to keep her on the unholy straight and narrow, dragging in sexual energy and souls to the world of Other.


But the vampire overlord Rafe Tomas is determined to avenge the death of his friends. Friends whom Julia has killed in the course of her succubus duties. 
Rafe wants vengeance. He wants Julia dead. He also wants Julia herself. The sexual heat between them is incendiary. But Julia knows the only thing denied her is true lust, let alone love.


Can she find a life with Rafe? And even if she can, will Azhael destroy them both first?

Book Review

The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on March 27, 2015

Julia is a Succubus, she’s been one for a very long time. The thing is that while she is Succubus and takes the life from others… she focuses on vampires only. There’s a reason for that, one that reflects on her past. And one can never manage to escape their past… no matter how long ago that was.

Julia herself is a stunningly beautiful Succubus, very dominant in nature, sure of herself and what she is capable of. There isn’t any sign of horns or tail in the story, but her voice, her seduction of Rafe, the heat within her at their being together speaks volumes about her character. But it isn’t just that which made me adore her. It’s the connection she has with her long past family, their ancestors and how that connects into the story as a whole that brings her to a unexpected level for me. There’s so much I like about her character that I can excuse, for the most part, her bull headedness and one track mind when it comes to Rafe.

Rafe himself is, in a lot of ways, a mirror image to Julia. He’s every bit as dominant, every bit as sexual and powerful. Being a vampire of course he feeds in a different way and that did bother me through most of the story. At least until the conclusion when many surprises occurred, some of the reasons for why things are were explained, though not fully, and many of the questions about him were explained. It is the climax of the story, when a surprising reveal comes about a minor character that tied up a lot of loose ends, made things right, in many ways, and brought the story to a very satisfying conclusion.

But before the story comes to a close there are some very hot, erotic scenes which showed, quite well I thought, the pitfalls of being a Succubus when you finally find someone that you care about and want to be with. Save all of the blood letting that occurs between Rafe and Julia, it was amazingly written and I loved every moment of it. It wasn’t overdone by any means thankfully and it strengthened the story overall as well.

Really a wonderfully written story, the characters are gripping in their pasts, their present, and what they go through in the story. It’s really an excellent page turner with some very hot erotica mixed into a story of discovery, the meaning of family, and finding one’s soulmate when you didn’t think you had a soul.

As a stand alone story, this would have been lovely and everything I could ask for. But the way it is framed, it is presented as the beginning to a series and… that never happened. There is every opportunity for that to be/ But it didn’t. More’s the shame really as all of the world building, situations, and events easily lead towards that. It left me wanting and saddened when I couldn’t find more to this than there was.

I’m giving this work four out of five pitchforks.

It is a shame that, as of this review, the series never materialized, the story was left untold, and that’s unfortunate. It really shouldn’t have turned out this way. It’s far too good of a story to end where it does with so many things left unsaid and a mystery…

External Links

• This work in Kindle Format at Amazon.com
• This work in Various Formats at Smashwords.com - No Longer Available