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The Demonic Bride: Book 1 (eBook)
| The Demonic Bride: Book 1 | |
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 The Demonic Bride: Book 1 eBook Cover, written by Lacy Lane | |
| Author(s) | Lacy Lane |
| Series | The Demonic Bride |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | December 27, 2016 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 72 Pages |
| ASIN | B01MZ41RX0 |
| Followed by |
The Demonic Bride: Book 2 |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
The Demonic Bride: Book 1 is an eBook written by Lacy Lane. It is the first work in the The Demonic Bride series by this author. In this work the character Joshua Chapman is transformed into the Succubus Julie Powell.
The work was removed from Amazon as it had been plagiarized from the story The Succubus Bride Trilogy by REIF.
Overview
- Title: The Demonic Bride: Book 1
- Author: Lacy Lane
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 72 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B01MZ41RX0
- Publishing Date: December 27, 2016
Other Works in this Series on SuccuWiki
Plot Summary
Joshua Chapman and Brandon Powell have been best friends since high school. They're nerds that live for anime, superhero movies, and of course, video games.
All is well until Brandon complains of feeling like they're in a rut, and the friends head out to Georgie's bar, looking for some new ways to have fun, and maybe even a chance to meet some girls.
On the way to the bathroom, Josh gets lost and interrupts a succubus taking her evening meal of male essence, and she decides to teach him a lesson in a way that will change his life (not to mention his body!) forever...
The she-demon implants her succubus seed into him, and he begins to change into something that is half woman and half sex-craved demonic slut.
Josh learns that the only way to keep himself from turning into a full-on succubus is by marrying a man and living out the rest of his life as a woman and a wife...who better to take on the role of his husband than his best friend, Brandon?
After talking Brandon into marrying him, Josh changes completely from male geek to female bombshell, and soon becomes Julie Powell in a quickie church wedding.
Will Brandon and Julie live happily ever after as husband and wife? And what about the slight complication that Brandon's new wife is constantly hungry for his male essence and seems to ALWAYS want to have sex?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on March 31, 2017
There are some things that one should never do. Getting on the bad side of a succubus when she’s feeding is one that Josh discovers. Cursed to become like the succubus, Josh, now Julie, has to face the impossible. Not just being a woman, not only that she’s a succubus, but having to face her family, her world and, in time, confront the succubus that started it all to save a world that doesn’t realize the dangers.
The series is quite the epic tale, but it’s not really focused too deeply on the gender swap aspects or the succubi either. At its core it’s about Julie sorting out her new life, coming to terms with that, with her love, with her family. There are conflicts, losses and tragedies but at the same time there are moments of joy, passion and resolution that add depth to what otherwise could have been a thinly veiled story of gender transformation.
The plot arcs follow several different paths, all of which circle around Julie, and that allows for a lot of character development and world building to happen. There are erotic moments, there are moments when succubi are succubi as well. But there’s something more in that the growth of Julie isn’t ignored or glossed over. It’s terribly sad at many points, not at all simple or simply accepted by her. The struggle to accept matters and that is what drew me deeper.
The erotica runs a bit hot and cold overall, the moments between Julie and Brandon are wonderfully soulful things and adored. The scenes with succubi just don’t really have that, but that’s a reflection of the characters themselves. It’s a shame that there’s not the seduction, it’s outright sex and no emotional meaning for them. It’s a dark point to many of the characters and that brings the issue I have with the work overall.
If there’s one thing I didn’t think worked well, it was how very Felielle and the other evil succubi were too close to being stereotypical. At some points that turned into comic book villain levels of evil and the climax of the series, how that plot arc was resolved, felt too rushed and confused at times.
That said, the ending of the series felt right, it settled a lot of questions about Julie, her family and most of all, what the future holds for her. It doesn’t leave a lot of dangling plots behind, which was good to see. But it ends in way that leaves a path towards another book about Julie. It’s that open thread that didn’t quite feel settled, almost rushed, and I wish it hadn’t been.
Overall the series is well written, the intimate moments when Julie is trying to understand her path, the conflict within herself, were very powerful. The transformation of her relationship with Brandon, the battle with her family and then the terrible things that happen through the efforts of Felielle make for a really good read. Perhaps the comic book levels of plot at times needed more focus, but that didn’t take away from the purpose and drive the series had.
Four out of five pitchforks.
A delightfully fun and emotionally driven work. It’s more than erotica or a gender swap tale. There’s a deep universe to explore and that’s delightful. I do wish that the evil succubi in the series had been more than the two-dimensional characters they were at times. I’d also have liked for the ending to tell more rather than come to the finality that it did.
Well written, deeply involved and more importantly, there are consequences to every action. It makes for a compelling read, one that I enjoyed. It’s just the little oddities that hold the series back from what I think it was meant to be.
External Links
- This work in Kindle Format at Amazon.com - No Longer Available