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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
3.5 Stars, 31 May 2009
This is the 4th book in the Georgina Kincaid series and it picks up a few months after the events of Succubus Dreams. Right from the start Georgina isn't herself, she's being a ... well, she's not nice. She's full of hate and pain and it's not pleaseant. She's outraged to have her friends tell her the truth, about how she's acting and how she shouldn't be with the guy she's dating now, Dante, and her boss has had enough. From the back cover you already know that her boss ends up disappearing and she loses her powers (sorry, abilities) as a result, but this doesn't actually happen until about a third of the way in to the book. Up until that point it's mostly Georgina being pissed off about Jerome sending her away, and her moping over Seth. After, it's a combination of her trying to find Jerome, her trying to stay away from Seth, and feeling guilty cause he's her best friends boyfriend, so she shouldn't even be thinking of him like that. Oh, and hope that her semi-human state could possibly mean she finally has a chance to get pregnant.
The plot is tight, there aren't major holes in it and there are a few good twists. But this book, for me, is not as good as the last. Georgina spends a lot more time talking with people rather than doing anything, and she's not the easiest person to like in it either. There are still some funny moments too, but nothing on the previous books. But, although I found myself happy to sit and read it straight through, I didn't really have a problem putting it down, not as much as previous books. It didn't have the same pace and energy of the pervious books I felt, and although still being a good read, I didn't love it. Just from the preview of the fifth book, Succubus Shadows, in the back, it sounds better. I liked the idea behind this one, but it seemed to be more about tying up certain loose ends and getting rid of certain characters (and bringing others back) more than anything else. Still a good way to pass a few hours, and I'll be buying the next, but I don't think it was the best in the series and didn't show Ms. Mead's full talent.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Georgina's sent to Purgatory - well, Vancouver!, 11 Jun 2009
Succubus Heat is the fourth volume in Richelle Mead's series featuring Seattle succubus, Georgina Kincaid. By now, the characters and milieu are well-established and readers will know them well: Georgina, passionate, impulsive, intelligent and deeply caring - not quite what one would expect from a shape-shifting, immortal temptress whose purpose is to devour the life-energy of mortals in order to advance the cause of Evil; Jerome, arch-demon of Seattle, who manifests in the mortal world in the form of John Cusack; Seth Mortensen, writer, honest man and the love of Georgina's life - despite the fact that he's currently dating one of her mortal friends; and Carter, the angel who associates with the denizens of Evil in the cause of Good.
All the familiar characters are back, although some play less of a role than previously, this time around. As the novel opens, Georgina, still heartbroken over her break-up with Seth, is sent by Jerome to Vancouver to help out the local arch-demon who's been having problems with a group of Satanists who, by attracting too much attention, are recruiting people to the cause of Good, instead of Evil. Shortly afterwards, however, Jerome vanishes, severing all of his minions' links with their infernal powers - his vampires can walk in the sun, his imps lose the ability to see mortal souls, and Georgina no longer absorbs life from anyone she becomes intimate with. Despite this meaning that a major obstacle to her getting close to Seth again has now been removed, it's up to Georgina to find Jerome, and unravel the mystery of his disappearance, before his superiors in Hell appoint a new arch-demon of Seattle and she and her friends find themselves with a new infernal master.
Georgina is a sympathetic heroine, and her witty voice makes Succubus Heat as engrossing a read as the previous three books. Mead's take on the forces of darkness as a great bureaucracy, with much of the work on Earth being done by `lesser immortals' - humans who have sold their souls for one reason or another - is both intriguing and amusing, if perhaps a little unbelievable, as none of the servants of Evil seem that, well, Evil. That aside, readers will, no doubt, find themselves glued to the text as Georgina and Seth's romance continues its rollercoaster ride, with both highs and lows, and much, much more, obviously, to come.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Richelle's Best, 4 Jul 2009
As a long term fan of Richelles Succubus series you can pretty much guarantee that when the latest novel lands it'll be read pretty soon after. So with so much goodness (or evilness if you like) guaranteed I got all my goodies together for a marathon reading session. The writing as usual was constructed very well, the narrative addictive and above all flowed in such a way that you never knew how it was going to unfurl until the final page. What disappointed, however, was the marathon sex sessions of a the principle protagonista as the author appeared to channel Laurel K Hamilton which annoyed me to be honest as whilst you do expect a certain amount of sex within the novels they've never really been this descriptive before. I just hope that she learns from this and doesn't fall into the dark territory that will lead her more to the literotica literature over the carefully constructed plot lines that have won her fans the world over.
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