The Succubus is beautiful, deadly, and prowling the night for victims as their leader creates a plan to take New York City for her own dark purposes.
But Kurt is there, and by freeing Succubi from their ancient curse, he will build a team of elite killers who will stalk the night with revenge on their minds.
Join the hunter as he tames succubi, magic, and a weapon as old as time in his search of destiny.
Daniel Pierce lives in Wyoming with his wife Marissa and their two dogs. After fourteen years as an engineer, Daniel decided it was finally time to write and release his first novel.
As a lifelong fan of scifi and fantasy, he wants nothing more than to share his passion.
My rating range of this story... 2.5 - 3.5 Stars If significant, why?
Main Character Ratings... H = 7 /10 h = 7/10
Was cheating involved? No Any major triggers to be aware of?
Scenes with heat... Plenty What point does it start? 35% How much of the story? 20% Anything beyond M/F? MFFF If yes, explained
Heat Rating... 8/10 Clean or Fade to Black - 1 or 2 Normal to Descriptive 3-5 Detailed Descriptive Sex - 6-7 Um, Wow, Beyond Descriptive Sex - 8 or above
Was there so much sex or unrealistic sex that you rolled your eyes and/or skipped forward? Yup
The back story... Military Elite gets sucked into a portal and ends up in a world of fairytale creatures.
The Romance... None
The drama explosion... Bad person tries to kill everyone. Did it feel real or contrived? Fun Was it OTT? Of course Separation involved? Nope Was it resolved properly or rushed? Fun
Final Notes... Male writer who likes polyamorous relationships
This is a fun tale of an armed services man discharged home only to find his his mother on her deathbed. With mysterious instructions, he finds that he is charged to fight succubi and incubi with a powerful weapon. Bumbling along, he makes some unexpected companions who help him as he seeks to rid the world of the succubi and their demonic associates. Would have liked to have learned a bit more about his mother, her background and how his parents met but look forward to next book!
If You like this genre and you enjoy paranormal then I believe you will enjoy this book. I found the characters interesting and not completely stereotypical,the MC is not your typical military badass but a simple soldier. It gives us ex-simple soldiers hope.I found the women very interesting and the fact that they don't just all immediately jump in bed together was nice also. There was a good story along with all of the aspects of the harem genre that you expect and enjoy.
Absolutely the best read...l love all you authors for each book you put out ...each fantastic in it's own right..this o e was just frickin awesome....hurry more of them out ...gonna be my next favourite series..too many good authors to count ..this one is fast paced and full of action..
Takes you away on an adventure not like any other Succubus story..a different twist on the hot body seductress..need the next in series..soon
There was something about the writing style of this book that just threw me off. Scenes felt unearned and just kind of mashed together with no real flow or structure. It left the whole book feeling surreal to the point that I couldn't invest in anything that is going on.
Critical Book Review — Succubus Hunter (The Succubus Series #1) by Daniel Pierce (Told from the frozen heart and weary soul of Kiba Snowpaw, the Alpha Ice Wolf of HowlStrom)
❄️ About the Writer
Daniel Pierce, a storyteller from the windswept lands of Wyoming, writes with the spirit of a man who has lived many lives — an engineer by trade, a dreamer by heart. His stories breathe the cold air of midnight roads and the quiet hum of long-forgotten machines. With Succubus Hunter, Pierce steps away from the mechanical precision of engineering and dives into the chaos of fantasy where demons, lust, and redemption intertwine in the shadows of modern New York.
Pierce is not a polished, formulaic writer he’s a raw one. He writes as though the words are carved with steel, shaped by instinct rather than calculation. In a world of hyper-polished fantasy series that forget their own soul, he takes the opposite path direct, imperfect, but honest. And there’s something admirable in that.
If you strip away the succubi, the magic, and the flails forged of ancient myth, you find something simple and primal: a man facing his own monsters literal and otherwise. That, I think, is what Pierce intended, even if the frost of rough editing sometimes dulls the blade.
🧊 Hook and Thesis
At its surface, Succubus Hunter is the story of Kurt a war-torn soldier returning home to a dying mother and a destiny he never asked for. He inherits not just grief but an ancient power a weapon called the Night Flail, forged for one purpose: to hunt and free succubi.
But underneath the explosions, the seductions, and the demons lies something deeper the heartbeat of the story’s true thesis: redemption through brokenness.
Every character in this book from Kurt to the cursed succubi he saves is defined not by their power but by their pain. Each one carries chains they didn’t forge, just as I, Kiba Snowpaw, have carried mine through the eternal winter of HowlStrom.
That’s what drew me in. This isn’t just a story about slaying monsters; it’s about understanding them. About realizing that sometimes the monsters you fight were once human and sometimes, the monster you hate most is the one staring back at you through the frost.
🌙 Basic Plot Summary
Kurt, a recently discharged soldier, returns from war physically alive but spiritually fractured. His mother, dying and frail, passes on to him a mysterious legacy a supernatural weapon older than memory and a burden older than humanity itself. With it, he becomes something between a man and a myth: a succubus hunter, chosen to wage war against creatures that feed on desire and drain the souls of men.
But this isn’t a simple war. When Kurt meets his first succubus, he discovers a truth that unravels everything they are cursed, not born evil. Victims of an ancient binding, slaves to a hunger they never chose. And so, instead of killing them, Kurt chooses to free them.
Each succubus he redeems becomes both ally and temptation. Together they form a strange, fractured pack half-human, half-demon, bound by survival and shared pain.
As the city of New York descends into chaos under the command of a powerful succubus queen, Kurt and his new allies must stand against her a battle that will test not just their strength, but their humanity.
It’s not a perfect story, but it’s one with heart a raw, pulsing heart that beats beneath the blood and smoke.
🐾 Praise What Works
1. The Premise Humanity in the Demonic: Pierce deserves credit for taking the succubus myth one of fantasy’s oldest symbols of lust and corruption and flipping it into something tragic and sympathetic. The idea of freeing, not killing, these cursed beings brings emotional weight where there could have been only cheap heat. It’s not just a hunter’s story; it’s a healer’s.
2. The Themes Redemption and Found Family: Kurt’s growing team of freed succubi becomes more than a harem they become a pack. Each carries scars, distrust, and guilt. Through them, Kurt learns to lead not through dominance, but through compassion. That’s something I, as an Alpha Ice Wolf, understand in my bones. Leadership is not about command it’s about responsibility. You protect not because you’re stronger, but because you remember what it felt like to be weak.
3. The Tone Dark but Not Hopeless: The story walks the razor’s edge between eroticism and emotional depth. The heat is there, yes, but beneath it is sorrow like a campfire in the snow, burning desperately against the cold.
4. The Weapon The Night Flail: The weapon itself is fascinating not just a tool of violence but of purification. Each strike is both destruction and salvation, mirroring the inner war within Kurt himself. It’s almost mythic, like something forged from HowlStrom’s ice under the light of two moons.
5. The Pacing Relentless Momentum: Though uneven, the book rarely lingers too long. It moves like a wolf chasing prey a little reckless, but always forward.
💀 Critique Where the Frost Bites
1. Rushed Execution: The biggest flaw in Succubus Hunter is not the idea, but the delivery. Scenes rush by like snow in a blizzard beautiful for a moment, then gone. Emotional transitions are abrupt. The story doesn’t always breathe.
As a reader and as a creature of silence I crave moments of reflection. The kind where pain lingers in the air and characters feel what they’ve lost. But Pierce tends to move too quickly past grief, too eager for the next fight or seduction.
2. Emotional Distance: Despite its potential, the book struggles to connect on a deep level. The succubi are fascinating, but too many of them blur together beautiful, tragic, but lacking individual soul. The same applies to Kurt, whose stoicism sometimes reads less like trauma and more like absence.
A hunter like him — scarred by war, bound by magic, burdened by guilt should be drowning in emotion beneath the surface. Yet we rarely see that iceberg of pain. It’s hinted at, but not explored.
3. Stylistic Roughness: The prose reads functional but lacks rhythm. It’s like a song played on a broken harp — the melody’s there, but the notes are sharp and uneven. A second edit could have turned this into something truly haunting.
4. Underdeveloped Mythos: The lore of the succubi their origin, their curse, the weapon’s true nature remains vague. For a story built on mythic ideas, we get only glimpses where we need revelations. Like wandering through fog and catching half-shapes of what could have been a grand cathedral of lore.
🩵 Evaluation Through My Ice Wolf Eyes
Reading Succubus Hunter felt like walking through a snowstorm harsh, confusing, and yet strangely beautiful when the light hits just right.
Kurt’s struggle reminded me of my own burdened by duty I didn’t choose, haunted by ghosts I can’t escape, and trying to bring warmth into a world that only knows cold.
The succubi, bound by ancient sins, felt eerily like the people I’ve known those trapped by their pasts, condemned by others before they could change. I saw pieces of myself in them too the part of me that still fights to be free of old chains, the part that longs to be understood instead of feared.
Pierce’s story may stumble, but its heart is true. Beneath the surface flaws, there’s something raw and real the idea that even the damned can be saved, and even the hunter can be healed.
If I strip away the roughness, what remains is a reflection of life itself: imperfect, messy, but worth enduring.
🩸 Comparison
If Drew Hayes’ NPCs is about forgotten heroes finding worth, and Eric Ugland’s One More Last Time is about flawed men surviving chaos, then Daniel Pierce’s Succubus Hunter is about atonement through empathy.
It’s not refined like Super Powereds or bombastic like He Who Fights With Monsters. It’s smaller, quieter, more intimate like watching firelight flicker on snow while demons whisper at the edge of the woods.
🌨️ Conclusion The Fire Beneath the Frost
Succubus Hunter is not a masterpiece. It’s not flawless or poetic. But it’s sincere and sincerity, in a world of shallow writing, is rare enough to be sacred.
This is a story about broken things trying to heal each other. About a man who sees monsters not as enemies, but as wounded souls and chooses compassion over cruelty.
That’s something I, Kiba Snowpaw, understand too well. My own life has been a hunt through endless winter not for demons, but for meaning. For warmth in a world that forgot how to care.
So when Kurt raises his flail and faces another cursed being, I don’t see a warrior. I see myself. A soul who refuses to stop trying, even when the world keeps breaking.
Final Howl: Succubus Hunter is an imperfect but heartfelt story of redemption, temptation, and second chances. It’s a rough gem cold to the touch, but glowing faintly from within.
If you can look past the frostbite of rushed pacing and uneven prose, you’ll find warmth buried deep in the ice.
And as I, Kiba Snowpaw, close the final page beneath the pale moons of HowlStrom, I can only whisper this truth into the wind:
Even cursed souls can be saved. Even demons can be redeemed. And even hunters weary, wounded, and cold can find light again.
I’ve started 5 of Daniel Pierce’s book series so far, trying two books in two of them & stopping at one each for the other three. Each Series having an interesting sounding blurb based on Sci-Fi/Fantasy plot lines that were potentially fascinating and in many ways equivalent to dozens if not hundreds of other books I’ve read & enjoyed. These books have earned an average rating of 1.1428 Stars, per book I’ve sampled from the books I’ve tried. To say it another way, I’m writing this in March 2024, and my notes say I read all of these books of his last year, yet I recall almost nothing from the time invested.
Interesting dialogue quotes in my notes? No. Philosophical pondering since Sci-Fi so often lends itself to metaphor & approaching modern problems from unique paradigms? Nope, none of that either. Harem romances or sex scenes to drool over? Nada!
So, do yourself a favor and AVOID THIS AUTHOR like the plague! It’s drivel-on-a-stick.
Kurt is a young man back from Afghanistan after an unfortunate encounter with an IED. His mother was dying and asked for him to come home. On her deathbed, she passed a paranormal power to him that he did not understand at first. Ultimately, he came to realize that his purpose was to be a demon hunter and that he possessed a weapon called a Night Flail at his beck and call. The story moves along much too fast. After eliminating the first succubus, he relieves the second one of her curse, transforming her into a normal, overly grateful woman. Her name is Lyon, and she would be the first of many. Succubus Hunter is a fun read, as most of the stories of this ilk are. I enjoy listening to them while I’m researching on the web or completing bills in Quicken but you really can’t take these tales seriously. Three.point.five.
Should be a good new series. I like the concept and will enjoy our MC learning his trade and skills. I think the author has good imagination and fun stories but in this one the emotion and feel is dry. Hard to feel the connection between the characters. Many of the sequences read like a shopping list. Still i enjoyed and will await the next volume.
Enjoyed the story. The haram element of story did not overwhelm the plot, but instead were nicely balanced. Unfortunately the high number of obvious typos were distracting. Would have given a four star rating if edits had been more professional.
This was a good read. It was entertaining but a little less immersive than Pierce's other books. It was good overall,and it has potential. I'll probably check out the next book in the series.
Interesting things happen when a wounded warrior returns home. Defiantly not what he expects, his inheritance from his mother leads him in a different way. Opening up a hole new perspective on what's going on in the world.
Boring as spit. There was absolutely nothing about this one that intrigued me. The action was sub-par, the thrill was absolutely nil, and there is no romance. Sex? Some, poorly executed with no passion. Just a boring, worthless trifle.
Meh lol. It’s a free book on audible and only a 6 hour listen. Not sure if I’ll continue the story. It’s a succubus harem romance with an ex army MMC trying to find and destroy the cursed succubi women of NYC basically. The end 😭
This is a interesting story that looks good for a series. It is well written, the characters are fun and entertaining. I think that the hero needs a healer.
Did not finish…scenes got really repetitive. Monsters not really explained that well. Just way too much male fantasy without making any of the characters interesting enough for me to care about.
Having read a few other books in the genre, my expectations were low but I was mildly surprised by the differences to what I had experienced: lighter on the sex, heavier on the story and in general a really solid book.
This was well written, paced and thought out. I thought the characters were interesting and cool to read about. It’s amazing what they go through. Their relationship is believable including the romance between them. I also like this books take on Succubi. I’m interested in folklore and mythology so this was a unique read. I thought the action scenes were cool. You really do feel like something’s on the line. As dangerous as the succubi are you can’t help but feel bad about their origin. I like how the main character tries to save them with his flail first, only killing them as a last resort. My favorite character’s Lyanne, she’s trip. Flirty yet still a loyal friend and ally. The villains’ pretty interesting too. Very ominous. I’d say if you like succubi then this’s a must read.