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The Castle: Blind Date (eBook)
| The Castle: Blind Date | |
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 The Castle: Blind Date eBook Cover, written by Penny Prescott | |
| Author(s) | Penny Prescott |
| Series | The Castle |
| Publisher |
Amazon Digital Services Smashwords |
| Publication date | December 19, 2016 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 20 Pages |
| ISBN | 9781370765980 |
| ASIN | B01NBMOTBA |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
The Castle: Blind Date is an eBook written by Penny Prescott. It is the first work in the Castle series by this author. In this work the character Eva is a Succubus as are several other characters.
Overview
- Title: The Castle: Blind Date
- Author: Penny Prescott
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services & Smashwords
- Length: 20 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B01NBMOTBA
- IBSN: 9781370765980
- Publishing Date: December 19, 2016
Other Works in this Series on SuccuWiki
Plot Summary
The Castle has operated for hundreds of years at various locations around the world. A club built around all human desires and run by a family of succubi, the Castle now resides in the City of Angels in sunny, Southern California.
After thousands of years alone, Eva's brothers are determined to find her a mate whether she wants one or not and, after getting recently her heart broken, she definitely doesn't want to. Fortunately for Eva, her brothers are adept at getting her what she needs, not just what she wants... in this case Cassie, a bold sub looking for a mistress.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on February 14, 2017
Eva thought she’d found the one, the soul that would complete her, but then that fell apart and she’s suffered ever since. Still, as the Mistress of the Castle, she has to make her appearances and hold things together for herself and her succubi. But she isn’t happy, not by any means so. The arrival of a new submissive is a tantalizing thing, one she both cannot ignore and cannot understand. The need calls to her, as does Cassie, and through the attraction, could there be something more?
The work tells of the beginnings of a D/s relationship, the two main characters, Eva and Cassie, feeling out each other’s want and needs, trying to see what each offers and if there is something which both desire within. There’s wonderful depth to Eva, there’s quite a bit of mystery around Cassie as well. While their emotional needs are bare in the story, who they are is quite deeply shrouded in mystery and doesn’t really have a chance to be told over the BDSM theme of the work.
Eva, according to the book summary, is a succubus, as are her two brothers. While it might be more apt to call her brothers incubi, setting that aside, there’s the barest hint within the work of they being succubi of any description. The little bits of description which offer that possibility are very short, don’t actually come out and say they are succubi either. Eva’s need to pleasure Cassie, to absorb her passions is very succubus like, but without the hint of the summary, it’s really hard to say she is a succubus.
Cassie is, for the most part, a mystery calling out to Eva, pressing upon her and dearly so. The depths within her are vast, not the least being her answers to the questions of what she needs and looks for in a D/s relationship. The little hints of Cassie’s life, her past, are offered, but they aren’t really explored as much as they really need to be as well.
The BDSM theme runs a little hot and cold at times, there’s a minor character that felt like they were in the story for no good reason, but aside from that I felt that what transpired between Eva and Cassie wasn’t silly, over the top, or felt wrong overall. The focus of the work is that construction of the relationship, of setting out the boundaries and seeing where that takes them and I enjoyed that quite a lot.
Once past the creation of the encounter, the erotica has heat, though some moments felt a little lost, being overcome by the occasional twist and turn of the BDSM theme before the next flash of heat comes within the story. The attraction between Eva and Cassie is unmistakable and I loved that very much, but I really wish there was more time spent in the afterglow to tell of something more than just a feeling of “see you next time.”
Written well, both in the characters and themes, there are a very few spelling mistakes here and there, but they don’t take away from the work. But there is a real lack of an appearance of succubi and as such I was disappointed in that. Being such a short story as well, there’s really only time for glimpse of all that goes on before the story has to move to the next step. I think, as an opening to a series, it’s well done, but even so there’s just something missing, beyond some kind of recognition of Eva and her brother’s succubus natures.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
The work is far too short, really it is a taste of what comes next. I really feel that the work deserves a higher rating, but the succubus aspects are well hidden, almost non-existent and that’s a shame. The D/s relationship story works, it’s a delight, but some of the moments felt a little bit wrong and uncertain. Eva and Cassie’s story begins wonderfully, but there could have been so much more if the work had been expanded and told more about the world beyond the main characters.
At the time of this review, a follow on to this story had not appeared. I think that’s a bit of a shame as the world created here has a lot to be revealed and needs to be. There’s not nearly enough time spent in telling about Eva and her brothers, of the succubi and why the Castle exists.
I’d really like that to be explored, to bring out the why of the story, as this work just barely scrapes the surface. The superficial nature of the work took away almost all of the succubus aspects, and that part of the story is what interests me. Having the characters introduced, what needs to happen next is peering behind what they seem to be and see who they are.
Perhaps that will come in time.