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The Alpha's Dark Seduction (eBook)
| The Alpha's Dark Seduction | |
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 The Alpha's Dark Seduction eBook Cover, written by Alexx Andria | |
| Author(s) | Alexx Andria |
| Series | Masquerade of Shadows |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | December 5, 2024 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 90 Pages |
| ASIN | B0DMKQNY14 |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
The Alpha's Dark Seduction is an eBook written by Alexx Andria. It is a work in the Masquerade of Shadows series by this author. In this work the character Isla Nightshade is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: The Alpha's Dark Seduction
- Author: Alexx Andria
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 90 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0DMKQNY14
- Publishing Date: December 5, 2024
Plot Summary
Never trust a succubus at a masquerade ball. Especially one who nearly killed your pack member.
My family has spent centuries protecting the supernatural elite. As Guardian of the Northern Reach and head of Voss Elite Protection, guarding vampire royalty at some cursed masquerade ball? Just another night's work. Until she walked in.
Isla Nightshade. Succubus. Soul-eater. She's everything I'm sworn to guard against—beautiful, deadly, and hiding something behind those violet eyes. I should be focusing on protecting Lord Raventhorn, not fighting this maddening pull toward the most dangerous woman in the room.
But when an ancient mating spell goes horrifically wrong, turning sacred soul-bonds into weapons of destruction, Isla and I discover we're bound by something deeper than the masquerade's magic. A chaos witch has corrupted the ceremony, and she's using our forced connections to feed her growing power.
Now I'm soul-tied to the one woman who could destroy everything I've built. My pack will never accept a succubus as their Alpha's mate. But with supernatural couples being driven mad around us and an artifact of immense power in the wrong hands, Isla might be our only chance at stopping this chaos.
Can we defeat the chaos before it consumes us both—or will our darkest desires destroy us?
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on June 6, 2025
For Isla, the hunger never ends, it never can for succubi after all. But she doesn’t want to kill, doesn’t want to live like this anymore and there might be a possibility for a cure. This leads her to a gathering of supernatural beings in search of their fated lovers and amongst the passions her nemesis Kade appears. What they do not expect are the darker forces at work and their own fates.
The work overall is something of a tease which slowly develops towards a very hot erotic encounter between the two main characters in the midst of a mystery that creeps in before exploding. The conflict between Isla and Kade is very strong and it brings with it a smoking attraction which works really well with their personalities. The tone, the dialogue, the narrative all work delightfully to make this a fun and alluring adventure with a seductive twist.
The erotica, when the main characters finally get there, is well done. It’s not over the top or reads in a silly way. There’s passion and need which turns into something more for them both and I did enjoy that quite a lot. It is rather short however when compared to the scenes leading up to the moment which built the tension and seduction which led me to expect something a bit more involved.
Isla, the succubus of the work, is very much a seductress with a dark nature within her. She isn’t stereotypical however, there’s a sensuality in her movements, expression and thoughts that comes through well and delighted me. I would have liked to have her story and past explored more, even if only in flashbacks, to understand her better. It’s just a shame that didn’t happen.
With all that is a delight, there’s something missing. That comes to the first encounter between Kade and Isla which is glossed over. It’s so dearly important to them both and yet the story barely expresses what happened before moving past this into something else. Given, at least for me, this is the first we see of them both, that really needed to be explored, even if only a flashback.
The revelation of who was behind the gathering, what they wanted from it and all else was disappointing. The story went from seductiveness to being over the top and it didn’t make a lot of sense. I could think of other ways to bring the story to a climax that would work better than what happened and that’s a shame.
Three and a half out of five pitchforks.
The work ends in a place that suggests a follow on work, and that would be nice to see. If that happens, there needs to be a point where Isla and Kade sort themselves out more than what happened here. As things are it is fleeting, a moment and then the story rushes off to the conclusion. I think there’s a lot more that could, and needs, to be done.