Lucie V.'s Reviews > Succubus Blues

✅ Characters
✅ Pace
✅ Kind of love triangle, but it's not annoying
✅(🆗) Plot
✅(🆗) Paranormal creatures (some of them could have been humans from what little we saw of their abilities)
🆗 Twists (they were predictable)

Georgina Kincaid is a succubus. She has been one for hundreds of years, and she hates her nature. She hates not being able to have meaningful relationships with nice guys without draining their life force, and all she wants is to be loved. Trying to have a “normal life”, she works at a bookstore, but having a normal life gets more and more complicated as paranormal beings are being hunted and killed around her, and it even looks like she might have something to do with it.

Georgina is a nice main character, I loved her spunk and witty comebacks, but at times she can also be mean and a little vindictive. It is normal though, no one is perfect, so while I found some of her interactions to be pointlessly mean, it didn’t bother me because it means she is flawed and I like flawed characters. The rest of the characters are interesting and well-developed enough for me to like them, but as is often the case in fantasy or paranormal books, they tend to act like “regular” adults, and not as immortal with centuries worth of experience. Some of their reactions seem a little immature at times considering they are many centuries old.

The plot was just okay though. It was nothing new or super original, and most of the plot twists were predictable so I was not surprised by anything that happened or was revealed. The pace was good, but not great, and I’d say that the romance and kind of love triangle took more space in the book than the actual murders and investigation. The murder mystery was intriguing at first, and I thought this book would focus more on Georgina trying to figure out who was killing the supernaturals around her and why, but she didn't investigate it that much, and the "bad guy" was fairly easy to unmask. Even worse, he almost blurted out his whole plan and reasoning without any prompting. The resolution of the murders was just too easy to be satisfying.

Georgina is happy working at the bookstore until she discovers that the cute guy she’d been flirting with is her all-time favorite author. Georgina feels insanely attracted to him, but she knows she can’t allow herself to get close to him because of her abilities. She also ended up going on a date with a random client of the bookstore so she wouldn’t have to stay late with her boss, and she had a surprisingly good time. Georgina can’t seem to make up her mind about both guys and the more time she spends with both of them, the more she likes them both.

Overall, this was not a bad book, but I don’t feel much for the characters, and I was not that engaged in the story either. I liked it enough to give a try to the second book though, so hopefully the next one will be more engaging and complex.



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