Review: Incubus Adored by Ki Brightly

Title: Incubus Adored

Series: Gravidam: Book One

Author: Ki Brightly

Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited

Length: 237 Pages

Category: Fantasy, Mpreg

At a Glance: I was full in with this story until that last twenty percent and then things went a bit wonky for me, but in the end there was enough there to make me want to keep an eye out for the next book.

Reviewed By: Sammy

Blurb: Peirs had accepted his life of servitude to an angel. His keeper asked only for a willing body, and in exchange his needs were met and he was fed and clothed. Peirs might have served the angel forever—it was the only life he knew—but one day Peirs discovered something he had no way to plan for. After a millennium, he was pregnant. Peirs now must summon the courage to escape his master and the unbendable angelic law that declared no half-breeds should live, but running into an angelic soldier in the back room of a bar wasn’t part of his plan.

After years of begging to go to the battlefields on Earth, Tabbis, the youngest angel in Heaven, finally got his assignment. Ready for heroics and bloodshed, he was stunned when he found enchanting and seductive Piers instead. Tabbis was duty bound to kill Peirs, but Peirs’s very existence challenged everything Tabbis thought he knew.

Tabbis needs answers. Peirs wants nothing more than to save his baby and live in peace. Can they band together to help each other? Or will the wrath of Heaven tear them apart?

Review: Incubus Adored by Ki Brightly offers up a unique paranormal view of Heaven and Hell and, in particular, the relationship between Lucifer and Yahweh. It follows the last angel to be called by Yahweh as he is sent on assignment to Earth in order to ferret out demons and dispatch them back to hell. Having little to no guidance other than the confusing directions of an alcoholic angel named Hadrian, Tabbis works by day in a liquor store and by night awaits his instructions. When Hadrian tells him of a demon at the brothel known as Sin, Tabbis righteously goes after the horned demon. The only problem is that Peirs is not actually a demon but an incubus—one who feeds off the sexual energy of others.

Peirs is fairly harmless and hardly the killer his kind have been made out to be, but his allure is almost magical and definitely addictive, especially to angels. Peirs also hides more than one secret and has escaped a hellish existence as a slave to one of the most powerful in Heaven’s hierarchy and the last thing he wants to do is spend any more time with an angel—even if Tabbis seems so very different and the pull toward him is so very strong. Unfortunately, both Tabbis and Peirs are about to discover secrets that will change them both for all eternity.

I was full in with this story until that last twenty percent and then things went a bit wonky for me. Up to that point, the growing attraction between Tabbis and Peirs, the cryptic Hadrian, and the flashbacks to Peirs’ slavery to a brutally nasty angel was pretty much on point. The pacing was top speed as we moved between present day and the past, and although the transitions were a bit abrupt, I soon recognized the memory segments instantly. They were intense and sometimes hard to read but nonetheless compelling and well done. It was the moment that Lucifer became involved in the story that I felt the bottom begin to drop out of the plot for me. There were these little hints at the relationship between Yahweh and Lucifer that left me frustrated. I needed more explanation for the cryptic comments that were dropped by both characters.

At the same time this added plot-line took off, we also saw a sudden and unexplained change in Hadrian and got hints that he apparently had lost an incubus he once loved. It was obvious that this little gem was the seed for an upcoming second book, but I really wish the author had given us just a bit more backstory when it came to Hadrian and who he was rather than have him inexplicably clean up his act and begin acting totally opposite to how he had up to that point.

I understood the need to leave some dangling pieces at the end to spark interest in the next novel, and I can assure you that there isn’t any huge cliffhanger that will leave you gnashing your teeth at story’s end. However, what had been a fairly tight storyline ended up devolving into way too many side plots and characters in that last section of the novel, and I felt that it really took focus off of Tabbis and Peirs in many ways. Their story was tied up too neatly and too swiftly. It was as if the author suddenly decided it was time to usher in the next book, so they needed to give the guys their happy ever after so we could focus on the next installment. Still, in many ways, the way Heaven and Hell were handled in Incubus Adored was really pretty fascinating and definitely presented a uniquely different view on an age old rivalry. In the end, there was enough here in this first novel to make me want to keep an eye out for the next story and see where the author takes us next on this interesting heavenly journey.

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