All Comments on 'Alexandra: 1865'

Ok we now know Alexandra. How does she fit into the story 175 years later?

I was first charmed by the witchy Alexandra back in "Nude Therapy - Phase 06" (October 2023). I'm glad that now she not only reappears but seems now to be the main character of a series.

I think this chapter is at its best when its attitude is complex and ambiguous--for instance in the characterization of Alexandra and maybe JW Booth (and, to an extent, Lincoln). It's at its best most of the time. Here and there, though, the tone is a bit like a patriotic, melodramatic potboiler. ("The Group sees this still-fledgling country as the greatest hope in spreading democracy on Earth.")

Overall, though, the story is impressive, especially in its inventiveness: the Group, the Elementals, Alexandra puzzling about exactly how human she might or might not be. Making the story's heroine a succubus was a wonderful idea--such gals haven't gotten a lot of good publicity, or sympathy, in Western literature in the past 900 years. Five stars for inventiveness in this chapter, and I'm looking forwards to more.