When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?
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Succubus Blues is sexy, scintillating, and sassy! Richelle Mead is now on my must-buy list! (Michelle Rowen, Author Of Bitten And Smitten )
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Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men.
Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
By Lesley70
Format:Paperback
Georgina Kincaid is a succubus, living in Seattle, working by day in a bookstore whilst at the same time trying to squeeze in her otherworldly duties. However, there are more deadly things at play in Seattle as Georgina is about to discover.
Sometimes you read the first page of a book and you just know you're in for a wonderful read. Succubus Blues takes us into the life of the working demon and makes it real. It shows how the road to hell can be paved with good intentions, and illustrates how the concepts of good and evil are ambiguous.
As it's written in the first person we are immediately drawn into Georgina's world; which is so like our own. She has her friends (Hugh the imp, Cody her vampire dancing partner) and her enemies, and she has to please her boss - Jerome the archdemon.
Georgina is a witty and self-deprecating protagonist and as we get to know her through the course of the story we become aware of her sadness as well. She is a succubus with all that entails, and although there are romantic elements to this story, I would classify it as urban fantasy rather than romance. The life of the succubus is not glamorised, and although there are sexual situations, the sex scenes when they take place are not gratuitous. Indeed given the subject matter you may have expected more.
There is a lack of strong female secondary characters but given Georgina's nature perhaps this is not surprising. And the male characters more than make up for this - Seth, the shy, reserved writer, who Georgina not so secretly hero-worships; Hugh, Peter and Cody - her friends; and the surprising double act of Jerome (the local archdemon) and Carter (the angel) who, whenever they appear, steal the scene. You really feel you're gaining an insight into the lives of these `evil' immortals, and at the end of the story it's hard to say whether any of them are intrinsically evil or good - they are all just trying to do the best they can.
According to the excerpt at the back, we can expect the next Georgina Kincaid novel in January 2008. I can't wait. :)
Sometimes you read the first page of a book and you just know you're in for a wonderful read. Succubus Blues takes us into the life of the working demon and makes it real. It shows how the road to hell can be paved with good intentions, and illustrates how the concepts of good and evil are ambiguous.
As it's written in the first person we are immediately drawn into Georgina's world; which is so like our own. She has her friends (Hugh the imp, Cody her vampire dancing partner) and her enemies, and she has to please her boss - Jerome the archdemon.
Georgina is a witty and self-deprecating protagonist and as we get to know her through the course of the story we become aware of her sadness as well. She is a succubus with all that entails, and although there are romantic elements to this story, I would classify it as urban fantasy rather than romance. The life of the succubus is not glamorised, and although there are sexual situations, the sex scenes when they take place are not gratuitous. Indeed given the subject matter you may have expected more.
There is a lack of strong female secondary characters but given Georgina's nature perhaps this is not surprising. And the male characters more than make up for this - Seth, the shy, reserved writer, who Georgina not so secretly hero-worships; Hugh, Peter and Cody - her friends; and the surprising double act of Jerome (the local archdemon) and Carter (the angel) who, whenever they appear, steal the scene. You really feel you're gaining an insight into the lives of these `evil' immortals, and at the end of the story it's hard to say whether any of them are intrinsically evil or good - they are all just trying to do the best they can.
According to the excerpt at the back, we can expect the next Georgina Kincaid novel in January 2008. I can't wait. :)
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Okay, so, the title made me want to read it because it tickled my sense of the ridiculous. The novel itself is so easy to read the characters jump off the pages almost as fully formed as you could need. If you were looking for an indepth treatise into the demon hierachy you won't find it here, what you will find however, is a romping good read, with characters you will care about and a sense of humour rather akin to the darker sides of Buffy. I loved this and nearly "devoured" it in one go, and I'm certainly looking forward to more novels from this world. The demons and angels all have their alternate "sides" and amalgamate into the human world with varying degrees of success. Georgina Kinkaid is a modern heroine/demon who fits just right, sometimes she gets it right but when she gets it wrong... watch out!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Axl Furneaux
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having read other reviews, I thought I would give this book a try. It had most of the things I like in a book; science fantasy, devils, demons, afterlife.
It did start off reasonably well, but it just ended up boring in my view.
There were so few characters, that the mysterious enemy was so patently obvious it evaporated all sense of urgency or drama.
The writing was quite simplistic - not a issue in itself, but re-inforced the message who was the enemy in the mix.
Would I buy another in this series? Unsure. It has some good bits, but didn't stretch the boundaries as far as the idea could have.
Is it a problem of scene-setting for a first novel in a series? I think not, but would be more than happy to be proved wrong.
It did start off reasonably well, but it just ended up boring in my view.
There were so few characters, that the mysterious enemy was so patently obvious it evaporated all sense of urgency or drama.
The writing was quite simplistic - not a issue in itself, but re-inforced the message who was the enemy in the mix.
Would I buy another in this series? Unsure. It has some good bits, but didn't stretch the boundaries as far as the idea could have.
Is it a problem of scene-setting for a first novel in a series? I think not, but would be more than happy to be proved wrong.
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