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The Gentleman Incubus (eBook)
| The Gentleman Incubus | |
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 The Gentleman Incubus eBook Cover, written by E.M. Hardy | |
| Author(s) | E.M. Hardy |
| Series | Gentleman Incubus |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | September 16, 2019 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 357 Pages |
| ASIN | B07XZNF8G2 |
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
The Gentleman Incubus is an eBook written by E.M. Hardy. It is the first work in the Gentleman Incubus series by this author. In this work the character Glenn is an Incubus.
Overview
- Title: The Gentleman Incubus
- Author: E.M. Hardy
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 357 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B07XZNF8G2
- Publishing Date: September 16, 2019
Plot Summary
Glenn Olson was kicking back, playing a session of Five Wars Online—his favorite VRMMORPG—when something happened and he woke up to find his synaptic implant fried.
Next thing he knows, he’s starting to feel a weird hunger that won’t let him be no matter how much he eats. As it turns out, he was assaulted by a Lust Demon while he lay there unconscious, and was himself changed into one when his digital assistant quarantined the threat to save him and disrupted its spell.
As a result of the interaction between the sandboxed succubus and the game he was playing at the moment, Glenn now has access to a character sheet full with life points, stats and a long list detailing all his new abilities. All in all, it wouldn’t be that bad if he didn’t learn that those life points are directly tied to his sexual satiation, and should those points reach zero, he would die.
Now a Fledgling Incubus, Glenn will have to obey the same rules as other Lust Demons to survive—that is to locate new preys and bed them at all costs. There’s a small problem though. Contrary to regular demons, Glenn isn’t about to just jump on unsuspecting women during their sleep and ravage them until death ensues. And thus, he probably won’t be able to draw enough life points, as killing their victims is the main way for his kind to satiate their hunger.
His back against the wall, Glenn will have to explore alternative ways to earn his points and stay alive, and ultimately gain enough experience to level up and add new skills to his repertoire. But first things first, he needs to find women to test his new skills on and experiment.
Join Glenn as he builds a harem of willing ladies and discovers that the key to his survival is to concentrate on their pleasure and bring them to orgasm after orgasm...
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on October 27, 2019
They say that life sucks and sometimes it really does. For Glenn things go sideways when the world changed and he found himself changed into an incubus with a succubus figuratively on his shoulder. But being an incubus does not mean acting like one and sometimes being a good soul can make anything possible in the game of life.
The work is a fantasy adventure with a modern themed twist wrapped in a LitRPG setting with all of the expected listing of stats one might expect. But it’s not quite that deeply drowning in the stats and that allows for a lot of interesting storytelling and character development as well. It is a bit scattered here and there, there are aspects of the story which hint at things that would have been developed in a follow on story, but that never happened.
The erotica is light-hearted, the story has both tension and amusement as things unfold which works well. There’s also a feeling of a conspiracy that carries as well and that offered a lot of possibilities.
Glenn, the main character who is transformed into being an incubus, is a good soul at the start and remains true to himself in spite of the dangers and corruption that pulls on him. It’s refreshing to find an incubus character that isn’t over the top or drastically dominant. More so that he cares about others and that just worked really well to develop him as an incubus too.
Three out of five pitchforks.
As much as I do not like LitRPG, the story here was interesting, the characters weren’t quite stereotypical either. It’s a shame that a second work didn’t appear or the series to go with it. I think that lessening the LitRPG aspects wouldn’t hurt and a bit more story and character development in exchange would add a lot that is missing.