He.
by
Gregory Pakis
This waking nightmare of erotic horror delivers as promised!
He. is a short erotic horror novel by Gregory Pakis featuring married couple Val and Lester, who have recently moved into a new apartment building and begun attending a series of swingers parties held in a private home nearby. Although they have yet to join in the “play” there, they are intrigued but just not comfortable or titillated enough to participate yet. But then, Val receives a cryptic cellphone text directing her to a particular spot in their apartment’s garden, where she discovers a note with a single-word command on it: “Initiate.”
The narrative is mostly from Val’s perspective. It allows the reader access to her intimate thoughts of curiosity, confusion, and desire as she follows later messages and experiences several dream-like sexual experiences at the hands of the seductive mystery man who sent them. As she leans into the pleasures he provides, she yearns for his approval of her reactions to his ministrations, all with the support of her husband Lester, who is slowly edged out of the action and into a spectator’s role. Adding to the mystery is a detective looking into the disappearance of a young man, who is somehow linked to a local underground sex club called “Stealth X,” which Val believes has relocated to the apartment next door to her and Lester.
The story is definitely adult material (NSFW), the action is vividly and graphically portrayed, and the demarcation line separating Val’s reality and dream life quickly disintegrates. The denouement is tense, and it is immediately followed by an ending that left much unexplained. I was left needing to understand better. Trigger warnings for all of the sexual situations and body horror.
I recommend HE. to readers of erotic horror.
I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy from the author through Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tours.