A Review of Up In The Elevator by Idris Macmanus

Up In The Elevator by Idris Macmanus

A review of a work this time on the Tale which is, overall, more focused on the character’s sexual encounter than it is really on the mystery that exists. That’s fine, it works, but at the same time I found myself wondering about the things left to be a mystery and wondering why they couldn’t have been explored.

• Title: Up In The Elevator
• Author: Idris Macmanus
• Published By: Amazon Digital Services
• Length: 45 Pages
• Format: eBook
• ASIN: B0867H6DS7
• Publishing Date: March 20, 2020
• This work in Kindle Format at Amazon.com

The work tells of:

Finn, a new intern at one of the most prestigious law firms around, doesn’t think anything about the mystery of the broken elevator. Every Wednesday without fail, the elevator in his building breaks down. Nobody worries about it, and so Finn is ready to let it go, ask no questions and move on with his life. That is, until one Wednesday he finds himself stuck on the elevator with a man he hadn’t entered with. A ghost, a demon, a figment of his imagination, Finn’s not sure what to make of the situation, but he learns two things being stuck in an elevator car with an enigma. First, there might be more to this broken elevator than meets the eye, and second, there are very few ways to pass the time without going out of his mind.

Lucky for him, the mystery man in the elevator has some alluring ideas. And Finn’s ready to do anything to kill time.

The elevator always breaks down at the same time and the mystery of why is something that Finn can’t resist. When he becomes trapped himself, there is no resisting the mystery himself.

The work is an erotic hot flash with a m/m theme and a bit of an incubus thumbing as well. A rather unique story, it moves at a quick pace to get to the erotic encounter and then passing through to the climax. Overall, the story uses the setting and the incubus character as a means for the erotica, but really leaves the question of the incubus aside. The erotica is a bit over the top, a little too adult movie in how things unfold as well.

Iphiseva, who can be described as the incubus of the work, has aspects of an incubus, mainly in his sex drive and how he draws Finn to him as well. It’s not clearly said he is an incubus, referred to as demon much of story, so perhaps he’s more of a sex demon in his character and what drives him onwards.

Two and a half out of five pitchforks.

Very much focused on the two characters becoming entangled in the elevator, there’s really only some bare hints of Iphiseva being an incubus and even those are in passing. It would have been nice to lift more of the mystery, or perhaps have an epilogue where the two meet elsewhere to leave something positive for the future, but that didn’t happen here.

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