Review: hate the typos, love the book (except the ending)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2012
I actually  bought this because I thought it was a gay-themed fantasy (which of course it is not).A rocky start, slow, with painfully despicable and bidimentional characters, threatens to doom the novel but as Daniel, his mother and stepfather arrive in their new home they personalities change entirely. This, of course, is quite a problem for consistency reasons but it is also a turn for the best as rhythm steps up to become breathtaking.The story flows in fast forward and tension is very high making for a good read... until the end. There the author has to fasten up all the loose threads and she does it by submerging the reader with obscure, sexually charged metaphors which not only are difficult to understand but also do not release any of the tension.The behaviour of the characters, especially of Daniel's mother, is inexplicable and the ending is not only rushed but also open as it is customary with horror novels (and one of the reasons I hate the genre).Beside a.m. reservations one might add that the title is misleading. While it is true that sex is an essential component of the story and that most of it happens under magical coercion there is no trace of a succubus proper, that is a female sexual demon preying on males.That said, the main problem with this novel is possibly another one, editing.The sheer number of typos (some could even be grammar mistakes) is astounding but that is not all: words are missing and occasionally whole sentences are, if not whole paragraphs.