Succubus in the City

This is a rather strange book. First, it approaches things from the viewpoint of those who are generally considered evil; Satan, various demons, and a succubus. Yet the book manages to take this approach and make it not only really fascinating but, at times, extremely funny.

For example, one of the major players in Hell is in charge of airports in the real world. Is there a better explanation for lost baggage, delays, overpricing, etc?

Anyhow, the story centers around Lily, who is a succubus who was originally from Babylon. She and her girlfriends (other demons such as Eros (temptation), Desi (desire), and Sybil (prophecy) love to get together and do some heavy duty shopping and eating at fancy restaurants.

Satan is a woman named Martha.

Lily's job as a succubus is to tempt men to have sex with her. When they orgasm, they burn up into a pile of ash, and their soul goes to Hell. Lily takes men who are obnoxious, and who are nasty if not outright dangerous to women.

As part of her contract with Satin, Lily can get out of being a succubus if a mortal man falls in love with her, knowing what she is, and avoids having sex with her for a month.

Lily has a couple of main problems. One, she wants someone to really love her and she finds a man who does, but wonders how to convince him she really is a succubus and works for Satin, and how will the man react if he even believes her?

Secondly, there is a matter of a bunch of religious fanatics who are out to kill Lily and all of her kind.

There is only one problem with the book, and that is it's the first part of a series (of at least two books). This means neither of Lily's main problems are solved at the end of the book. The book it self, though, has nothing in it to indicate that there is going to be another book in the series (I found out by checking Amazon.com), and thus the reader might judge the book quite negatively for failure to tie anything up.

I find that to be rather hard to figure out. Couldn't the publisher have put some kind of notice in that a sequel was in the works? Very strange.


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