Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) By A.J. Markam
Rampaging orc armies. Vicious bounty hunters. Hot lady robots.
Just another day in the life of Ian the Warlock and his succubus Alaria.
On the run from a goblin mob boss, Ian and Alaria travel to a distant land to kill her next ex-master - who just happens to be a gnome.
Like the other villains before him, this one plans to make SHORT work of our heroes! (Sorry, bad joke.)
In addition to saving themselves, our intrepid duo has to deal with a host of other problems - including steampunk war machines, female elf sex cults, and the end of the world.
WARNING: This is a story featuring naked women, threesomes, kinky sex, demons, warlocks, violence, revenge, and moral quandaries. If you’re an old granny lady who’s going to clutch your pearls every time a woman’s breasts are described or somebody gets naked, this book is not for you. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4)
Summary Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4)
Guilty pleasure
I started reading this series on a whim. It quickly became a guilty pleasure I can’t put down on every new release. This books a little down from the previous books, but still an enjoyable read none the less. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) 3.5 to 4 stars, as good as the last book, I will continue with this series but it is not for everyone.
Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) More of the same, nothing really much to say here. It's amusing at times, it's wish fulfillment all the way. It is what it is. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) Best yet
By far the best in the series . (So far) I really, really enjoyed this book. What a wild ride.(No pun intended) Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) Another work of art
I loved this particular story, I've now read all 4 books and this is just an amazing story. I can't wait to read the next book to come, thank you A.J. Markam. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4)
This 4th instalment in A.J.Markam's Succubus series was not a particularly strong one. It was readable enough and had some fun moments but it also had a few dull moments. As always this Litporn series offers a decent mix of LitRPG style action and adventure, humour, and erotica.
If you have made it to the 4th book in this series then chances are you are already well aware of the strengths and flaws of the series so I'll not bore anyone by listing them again as my reviews of the earlier books are likely full of my thoughts on them!
The plot for this 4th book was fairly simple. Now that Ian and Alaria are reunited again they get back to the task of hunting down her old masters. In the firing line this time is a crazed gnome warlock. On top of being a powerful warlock the guy was also a bit of a mad scientist so he and his crazed inventions (mostly robots) gave Ian and the others plenty of trouble! Outside of that Ian also had to deal with a persistent bounty hunter and a sex cult.
I think the action was the flaw in this instalment. Some of it was funny but it was never all that exciting and did have a tendency to run a bit too long at times. It was hard to take the gnome seriously as the main villain even if he did end up being one of the more problematic villains Ian has faced so far in the series. The bounty hunter felt more of a serious threat but he played a smaller role in the story. I thought the stuff with the sex cult was going to be awful but it actually ended up being quite amusing.
Most of the character development in this one was focused on Alaria. We got to see a new side of her thanks to one of the gnome's weird experiments. I feel like it did help grow her character but I'm not sure it was all positive as she ended up a lot more passive and damsel in distress like than we are used to. She is usually more kick-ass than Ian! Ian was mostly just Ian. The guy is a complete ass but despite that he still proves a fairly fun character to follow and it is usually easy to root for him as the people he ends up facing are usually a lot worse than he is.
The other thing I did find noteworthy was the fact that Ian did not spend any time outside of the game in this instalment. Which always seems a bit of a pity as I think there is potential for some fun happenings back in the real world. That said, I do like the fact that Ian mostly just treats the game world like it is a real world.
This finished with a real twist that has the potential to really change the direction of the series so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the next one. I'm still not sure how I feel about it.
All in all this was not one of the more exciting books in the series but it was still an OK read. This is not a series that takes itself seriously so the humour and Markam's fairly engaging writing style make these books entertaining enough to be fun reads.
Rating: 3 stars.
Audio Note: As always Iggy Toma did a fantastic job with the audio. He is great with the voices and really gets the tone of the story and brings it all to life. I'm sure he is half the reason these books are as fun as they are! Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) I don't care what any naysayers have to say I love these stories they're awesome, one story after the others to me seems to get better and better I'm actually on book seven and that's the best yet I don't know he's going to outdo himself just a great great series. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) Now this book in the series was excellent! Inconceivable? The action and plot was quite good. A think a book is as good as its villains, and this one had many villains. Of course, there is the matter of the cliffhanger! I need to read the next book now. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) I love the interplay between Ian and Alaria, and I like how the story keeps going in directions I didn't expect. But Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4) Book 4 of the series and Succubus is still as amusing as ever.
Alaria remains the key to this series success as her characterisation is excellent, but we do get to meet some other great new characters in this story. Orlo the gnome being the highlight - there is some great banter when we meet him, very funny stuff, the author A.J. Markam has a great sense of humour which really works for me.
Probably the most humorous section though is when we meet the elf sex cult. Just when you think nothing can top the lustful ice elf's from book 2, A.J. Markam comes up with something very original. Ian has a very hard time of it this time!
A great read. Gnome Place Like Home (Succubus, #4)