"I am Don thirty-six, crinkled around the eyes, tall but soft in body. Who I am boils down to very little because I am meant to be a vessel of the lord, and long ago, I gave up any chance of knowing myself. Which is why I want to ruin my life, you see. I am older. I am jaded. And I no longer think God is merciful."
Alessandro senses his devotion to the monastery slipping away, haunted by regret over the years he believes he's squandered. Torn between duty and desire, he takes a daring step to confront his suppressed lust. Seeking a solution, he summons a supernatural being to assist him. But can he withstand the shame of abandoning his position and his faith to satiate his long-neglected desires?
You know when you pick up a book simply because of its cover and a promise of a good time? Yeah, this review is the result of one of those moments and I have zero regrets for blindly digging into my first story from author Lucien Burr.
Excuse me, Lucien, you had me at demon x priest. And holy f/ck, did you deliver.
Prince of Lust is a deliciously dark morsel of utter depravity, filled to the brim with temptation, religious trauma, regret, debauchery and, my favorite, degradation. And when I say deg, I mean DEG. Brace yourself, Asmodeus has a mouth and he knows how to use it. And Alessandro learns this the hard way.
The smut is the plot, so don’t expect some grand story to unravel before your eyes. This is the tale of a priest’s journey to claim his truth, and to hell with the consequences. Literally. The abuse he endures feels not like the punishment he’s grown accustomed to by his religious superiors, but like blissful release. And we get to witness this exquisite liberation. It’s violent, it’s bloody, it’s sinful and I ate up every single word of it in one sitting.
If you’re looking for a bit of twisted, queer erotica to grace your Kindle, this is one I definitely recommend. With an engaging narrative, Burr takes us on a wild ride that I never wanted to get off of, and I hope to see more of Alessandro in the future. If you need me, I’ll be falling down the demon smut rabbit hole.
Ummm. I feel like I'm covered in c💦m. This was so dirty I suggest keeping a bunch of sage to cleanse the space when you are done. Like I am smelling sulphur and brimstone right now. And I legit thought Asmodeus was going to fuck him to death. For a novella this is excellent. But I might need a trip down to the river. Goddamn.
„All I was meant to be, all I was good for, was being this demon’s slut. Its sex toy. Meat, a hole, nothing but this. Asmodeus would use me like a cock sleeve and fill me up, and I would thank it when it was over. Beg for it to do it again. Beg for it to use me until I couldn’t be used at all.“
I enjoyed this more than I think I should…my priest kink is literally screaming. This was so delicious flithy and hot!! I do have to say that I had a hard time getting into it but around 50% I was fully captured. Now I wish that this were longer, because i loved Asmodeus and Dons dynamic at the end! I definitely don’t regret picking this up🤭
Well, that was… I… think I need an exorcism or the next book ASAP—it's honestly unclear at this point.
Let me just say: this incredibly beautiful, sweet, perfect cover (Aresna, you fucking rock ⭐️💛) gives absolutely zero warning about the erotic, horrific, gory, kinky debauchery that unfolds inside 😳
Alessandro wanted to be touched, fucked, stretched, and gaped by Asmadeus—and that’s exactly what he got 🥵🥵🥵
Its dark eyes encompassed me. “Are you God’s bitch?”(…) “I said.” The Prince of Lust growled and whispered against my ear. “Are you God’s bitch?” I shivered and felt its cock throbbing against me. I was inches away from losing my mind to this beast, seconds from irrevocably changing my life and letting myself be free and wild and filled. I glanced up at it. I made sure it was seeing me—and seeing me truly. It tore God’s collar from my throat, and I didn’t pick it up. I risked title and station and honour, my very life, my mortal soul, to summon it into existence. I haven’t been God’s for a while. “No,” I told it. “I’m yours.”
Surely we’ve all heard the one about the priest and the sex demon? It’s a tale as old as time. I think there’s a Disney movie about it. Holy shit, this was wild… I did enjoy the story, but I don’t think demon smut is my genre. I’m not a huge fan of mixing sex and gore. There may be actual nightmares in my future. 🫣🫣
”God had been a detour, and pleasure was the only thing I wished to worship.”
honestly the writing in this was weirdly poetic but at the same time scorching hot 🥵 this is the first installment in a blasphemous, hotter than hell (literally) mm priest x demon series and i feel like all of my religious trauma besties can agree that our naughtiest prayers have been answered 🙏🏻🥵
I was told this was about a repressed priest who summons a demon to dominate him. It was definitely that but I still didn’t know what to expect. This was beautifully written and compelling.
This was something I have read. There are words here. 80% are sex-related, 10% religious guilt and the rest is pain (self inflicted, claw-related, roughhousing type).
Nope, I wasn't paid for this. Yep, full honesty. Sometimes I like the whole religious demon taboo horror vibe set up. The sex version, not the whole possession, exorcism ones. This is a short one where a priest decides screw it and summons a demon. It would've been interesting to see his struggle before making that decision, there were mentions of his parents but if it was longer...I was expecting the demon of lust to be more...seductive. Instead, he came across as a toxic lover. Or on the kink side the priest was in to humiliation and degrading. I knew there wouldn't be much if any romance between them, but I did feel bad for the priest.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This is a dumb, non-serious book and it knows it and I mean that in the best way possible. Its about a priest who can no longer suppress his urges and summons a demon to fuck him. I read this because I needed something really short (it’s 66 pages long) and silly to get me out of a small reading slump. Gonna keep this one short cause I don’t wanna spoil too much since it's such a short novella. It was the perfect silly thing I needed and I read plenty of books right after it. I did enjoy the writing of this. It was so beautifully written and the sentences flowed so nicely, which was in stark contrast to the unserious smut that this book is. There were some genuinely Bible worthy quotes in here.
I love novellas. I love smutty novellas. I love priests being railed within an inch of their lives by a demon.
The cover, the synopsis, the DELIVERY. 10/10 would recommend every time. There’s a little bit of body horror and pain and begging. Take an ice bath after.
“I still remember the look on my mother’s face, a disgust that was only dislodged when my father tried to beat desire out of my flesh.”
Okay… I love this as not only a dark romance but one to really open people’s eyes to how deeply the fear of being gay within religion / to religious parents is.
Read the triggers before you pick this up. Also… be warned this is a novella with a god fearing gay man. If you’re not up to reading dark romance with the truth behind how it is to be a gay man (particularly because this is a gay man’s POV) in this religion then don’t even look twice you’ll just make excuses for the fear mongering.
I understand that this is something that is touchy for people but, the uncomfortablity of it is supposed to open your eyes and make you uncomfortable.
The fact that it took this man actually bringing himself to summon a demon- the Prince of Lust himself- all because he had to hide who he was for decades from being brutally beaten by his parents AND the bishop who took him in is more vulgar than the act of lust itself.
Look, it’s clear that this form of religion is not my practice. I am a practicing Witch and I always state that your spirituality is your own… but I don’t think I’ll ever agree with fear so deep rooting it makes you hate not only yourself but bring you to wishing for an eternity of “hell” soley because your heaven won’t permit the you you really are.
I know this was supposed to be a DARK novella and that I’ve obviously read a lot deeper into this … but the sex aside, this was such an incredible and important message to anyone who feels the way Alessandro did.
Being gay isn’t shameful. May you love your god and it love you just the way you are.
Again, be sure to check trigger warnings before you read.
2.5 stars Listen, erotic novellas are hard to write, especially the ones with a religious tinge. Prince of Lust, unfortunately, fell flat for me.
To be successful, an erotic novella has to have a strong atmosphere, and this is what lacked the most for me: the protagonist, the setting, the religious guilt, everything was just... meh. If the protagonist isn't strong, the conflict between his faith and desires gets boring really fast.
The actual erotic part was fine, albeit a bit violent for my tastes, but that's just personal.
I'll end with some nitpicking:
- religious inaccuracies: priest, monk, father and don are not the same thing. Alessandro gets called all four. The whole secret scrolls with demonic summonings was also really funny.
- dialogue style: things like the prose and the names made me think this was set during possible medieval times? Maybe a bit more modern, but certainly not contemporary. Why are we then speaking like repressed frat bros? "shut the fuck up you stupid slut" excuse me???? Even the use of words like slut (used 21 times!!!) and fuck felt out of place.
- mistakes: it's an indie book, so this did not influence my rating, but it was clear the author was thinking of the story in present tense and then reworked it, because some of the verbs are still in present, while the story as a whole is using a past tense.
I am a slut for blasphemy AND demons so the premise of this really worked for me. While it has a few typos the writing is also really enjoyable. The tone and emotions really set the scene here which was fun. It reminded me of if Saint by Sierra Simone was unhinged (i.e. if Aiden summoned a demon instead of Elijah).
However ITS NOT LONG ENOUGH!!! Give me more sacrilegious demon-summoning sex?! Wth
Good but not good enough for 4 stars. Has so much potential if it were a full length novel tho.