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Dirty Little Secret: An Incubi Story (eBook)
| Dirty Little Secret: An Incubi Story | |
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 Dirty Little Secret: An Incubi Story eBook Cover, written by Lexie Dawn | |
| Author(s) | Lexie Dawn |
| Series | Erotica Paranormal |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | January 15, 2022 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 14 Pages |
| ASIN | B09QJZ4PD5 |
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
Dirty Little Secret: An Incubi Story is an eBook written by Lexie Dawn. It is the first work in the Erotica Paranormal series by this author. In this work the character Azael is an Incubus.
Overview
- Title: Dirty Little Secret: An Incubi Story
- Author: Lexie Dawn
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 14 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B09QJZ4PD5
- Publishing Date: January 15, 2022
Plot Summary
Tessa has a little secret that she never intends to tell her friends. While they chain one-night stands and short relationships, Tessa concentrates entirely on her studies, which earns her regular remarks from her friends. At least, that's what she claims, because the reality is quite different. Why would she bother with humans when she can have fun with an incubus, god of pleasure?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on March 22, 2022
Tessa lives for one thing and one thing only, which makes her seem a bit strange to her student friends. They have their needs and can’t see that Tessa has the same. But some secrets are beyond mere understanding and some pleasures can’t be explained or shared.
The work is a very short hot flash piece of erotica overall that seems to be lacking an emotional connection with the characters and the storyline overall. There’s a lot of time spent in telling about Tessa and her friends, but the end result of that has very little to do with the erotica in the latter part of the story.
Once past the minutia of Tessa and her friends, the work takes a hard turn into the erotica and brings the incubus of the work, Azael to the fore. He’s quite dominant, taking Tessa to the release she’s looking for and seems to be addicted to, but it’s lacking things that would have made the story better.
The thing about Azael is that there’s really nothing told about him other than being an incubus, it seems like he’s not quite a stereotypical one which to me is interesting. But at the same time there’s a hint he wants something more from Tessa and that could have been a really interesting point to end their encounter on and Tessa not knowing that she’s fully under his power which would I think be an interesting turn with all of Tessa’s friends being introduced as much as they were.
The story reads very flat in tone, there’s little emotion from any of the characters which is disappointing. The narrative is very monotone and there’s just no real hook to make the story gain some needed life overall.
Given that so much of the work floats around Tessa and her friends, and the constant push for Tessa to be more sexually active as her friends are, it just didn’t give all that much to the story overall. There’s no explanation of how Tessa connected with Azael, there’s no real heat in that connection other than for her to fall to his dominance the moment Azael appears.
The work needs another editing pass, there’s a few points where things don’t read quite right such as Azael being referred to as “the Azael”. These are minor nits overall as the real problem in this story is just how flat everything is. Speaking the dialogue out loud makes it very clear at times that there’s something missing which given more heat in the story, or more focus on the erotica and less in the build up to it might have given the work the depth and flavour which would make this a lot more than it is.
Two and a half out of five pitchforks.
There’s something interesting here, but the story reads too flat overall. Given that this seems t be the beginning of a series I hope that the following works take the time to give more of a sense of who the characters are, give expression to their emotions and, hopefully, gives the entire work the life it seems to be missing.