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Shifting Sensations: Halloween Menage (eBook)
| Shifting Sensations: Halloween Menage | |
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 Shifting Sensations: Halloween Menage eBook Cover, written by Shiloh Saddler | |
| Author(s) | Shiloh Saddler |
| Publisher | Shiloh Saddler |
| Publication date | March 28, 2017 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 21 Pages |
| ASIN | B0783PZN9C |
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Shifting Sensations: Halloween Menage is an eBook written by Shiloh Saddler. In this work the character Ruger is an Incubus.
Overview
- Title: Shifting Sensations: Halloween Menage
- Author: Shiloh Saddler
- Published By: Shiloh Saddler
- Length: 21 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0783PZN9C
- Publishing Date: March 28, 2017
Plot Summary
The Halloween bash at the Shifting Sensations nightclub is the paranormal event of the year. Incubus nightclub owner Ruger is on the prowl for two playmates to liven his evening — dare he allow one to be his employee?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on September 22, 2017
Ruger has focused himself on business since something happened on Halloween a long time ago. Not able to overcome it, it’s difficult for him as an Incubus to be intimate with those that are attracted to him. But he cannot escape the attention of Aubrey, and this may bring his secret into the open.
The work is an erotic romance which slowly unravels the secrets of the main characters and in doing so becomes something beyond the erotica. There’s real hurt and pain that comes into the open with Ruger. There’s need and want from Aubrey that can’t be put aside either. It’s that intersection of want and cannot that becomes completely unexpected towards the end of the work.
There’s really very little of Ruger’s incubus nature in the story. There are some references to it, but it doesn’t come into play overall. The story is more focused on Aubrey and her drive to be with Ruger that makes things move forward towards the climax of the story.
The heat in the encounters and the pages leading to the erotic scenes is told well and is delightfully fun. But it’s the reveal at the end of the story, the truth of what happened to Ruger that turns the story upside down and in doing so loses much of the heat. The last page, most of all, in the aftermath just felt so dearly sad and lost which just didn’t feel right with all that came before.
It’s not exactly a happy ever after, nor is it a lost soul sort of ending. It just comes to a stop and when it does it feels like there’s a few pages left at the end which would give some hope, some passion or something to make things worthwhile. But for me that wasn’t quite there.
Bittersweet with an ending that just took the wind out of all that had come before. I didn’t expect a miracle, but it’s so dearly disappointing with all that came before. I’d have liked the story to continue further, to give Ruger some kind of happiness in some way. Similarly, taking Aubrey somewhere further along her development than happened would have been nice.
Four out of five pitchforks.
A telling story with good heat through most of the tale, but the ending just felt wrong in a lot of ways. Not all stories have happy endings, but in this case I’d have liked a slightly better one than there is.