Genre Urban Fantasy (368 pages)

Georgiana Kincaid #1

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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?

But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid’s life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven’t stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip and wings. And she can’t have a decent date without sucking away part of the guy’s life. At least there’s her day job at a local bookstore–free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can’t.

Richelle Mead is one of those author’s that has been on my radar for quite some time but it took fellow blogger Book Addict Patti high recommendation and giveaway to turn me on to the series.  So after an awkward slide tackle with my mail man – what, like you all don’t do the same thing. (Now that I think about it my UPS guy always gets this look of intense fear when I approach his PSB -personal space bubble, after he practically threw my package at me and sashayed off my front lawn ). I  was ready to delve into Mead’s world of the Succubus Georgina Kincaid.

Succubus Blues is one of these series that I knew I’d become so attached to I’d need to make a Costco run for some Kleenex and keep my partner in crime on speed dial to get me over Georgina’s relationship bumps. Mead has a way of really humanizing Georgina and you really feel for her predicament as an unfortunate succubus. Now, we all know that I was adamant about no more UF series without a written guarantee of a happily ever after, but here I go again, I just can’t help myself.  Mead already has me addicted and I’ll be as much of a wreck as I was reading Karen Marie Moning and the Kate Daniels series. I know I should ‘detach with love’ but I can’t seem to help myself with this interesting series.

Georgina is a succubus who works in a local bookstore and has a major author crush on writer Seth Mortensen. (Coughs) as a person who also stalks admires many an author’s work, I felt an immediate kinship. My favorite scene has to be when Georgie corners a fellow book reader in the travel section, – not knowing that as she is pontificating about her love for the author and said  customer is actually THE SETH MORTESEN. Total Oh Em Gee moment. As a person who constantly puts her foot in her mouth ( I once said ‘my it’s nipply out to my ubber Christian cousins *face palm* ), I couldn’t help but snort-laugh when she said:

I-well yes, of course I do. It’s just that…okay. Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on, I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advanced copies of his books.

I felt my stomach sink out of me adn hit the floor with a thud as I put two and two together. No. No. It couldn’t be –

“Ah, Georgina. I see you’ve already met Seth Mortensen”

“Kill me, just kill me now.” (Georige)

This is where I fell in love. Despite Georgie’s succubus lifestyle, she still just a girl, with the same wants and desires as the rest of us, who charmingly crushes on her favorite author’s books (she stops herself at only reading a few pages a night, so she can savior his writing for as long as possible). God, couldn’t you just die?!  I love this about her!

Add the mystery of someone killing immortals in her area, one hot linguistics bad boy Roman and a introverted writer who you can’t help but root for, and you’ve got a series that will keep you up until 4:00 in the morning just to see if Seth ever really does sign her copy of his book. My only hesitation about reading the rest of the series is that Georgie and Seth experience some major heartache and  selfishly I don’t know if I’m strong enough to survive their relationship hiccups. This series makes me feel so much, I’m already half in love with Seth and have a woman’s crush on Georgie. I know I won’t be able to stop myself from consuming the rest of the books in this series, Mead is just too good of an author to turn down. What I can’t promise isno  late night phone calls to my partner in crime, a tweet or two to fellow online encouragers, downing a bottle of red wine (maybe boxed?)  to ‘make it through’ the rough patches, and a whole roll of toilet paper because I am too cheap to buy Kleenex.

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(psst this is when you tell me to man up ie encourage/shame me into reading the rest of the Succubus books m’kay)

Succubus Tops #2 – Amazon Link

Succubus Dreams #3 – Amazon Link

Succubus Heat #4  – Amazon Link

Succubus Shadows  #5 – Amazon Link

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