I went into this book expecting cheerfully blasphemous smut about a demon and a priest, and I got that, but I also got a surprisingly bittersweet and tragic story about a man who has been attracted to men his whole life and forced to hide it, who unsuccessfully sublimated his feelings first into petty crime and then, into religion.
When he impulsively summons Asmodeus, the Prince of Lust, Alessandro feels like he has become his true self for the first time in his life. This book features degredation kink, corruption kink, blood play, and tail fucking, and is one of the more intense and graphic erotica I have read in a while, but it helps that the hero is completely into it, and that even the Prince of Lust believes (perhaps mockingly) in consent.
PRINCE OF LUST doesn't have any pretenses about what it purports to be, and was a rather hilariously ironic thing to read on a Sunday evening. Lucien Burr is a new-to-me author but I'll definitely be checking out more of their work based on the writing in this one.
3.5 out of 5 stars
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