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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780758216427
ISBN number: 0758216424
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Page Count: 304
Printing Date: January 01, 2008
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Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. If she so much as kisses Seth Mortensen, the shy, sexy, incredibly gifted Seattle writer she's been dating, she'll drain his life force. Georgina is a succubus - a demon who draws her power from other men's pleasure. Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks are terrific, and yes, Georgina did choose to join the ranks of hell centuries ago. But it seems completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can't get hot and heavy with the one mortal who knows and accepts her for who she is...It's not just her personal life that's in chaos. Doug, Georgina's co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behaviour, and Georgina suspects that something far more demonic than double espressos is at work. She could use help finding out, but Bastien, an irresistibly charming incubus and her best immortal friend, is preoccupied with corrupting an ultra-conservative talk radio star - and giving Georgina some highly distracting come-hither vibes. Georgina is going to have to work solo on this one - and fast because soon, Doug's life won't be the only one on the line...
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I can't get enough of this series. I blew through the very first one in two days - getting absolutely nothing done - and this one was the same.
Georgina's dating Seth Mortenson, the hot but shy author that she's been a fan of for years, but her Incubus friend Bastien comes into town and complicates things. Georgina can't have sex with Seth without taking some of his life, but she can with Bastien - will she crack under his friendly seduction?
Bastien's working on bringing down a conservative talk-show host with his manly wiles, and needs Georgina's help. But Georgina's working on another problem - why is her musician/ co-worker friend Doug having such manic ups and downs, and what is that weird buzzing sound in her head every time she gets near his drummer?
Something's off, and Georgina is going to get to the bottom of it.
This was even better than the first, so if you liked the very first one, go ahead and pick this one up. Do get a book-cover though to hide it - I got laughed at by everyone who saw the cheesy cover. I promise, it's way, WAY better than the cover suggests!
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I bought the very first book on a whim (I thought the cover combined with the back made it interesting) and found that I absolutely love what Richelle Mead has been able to do so far. I think she is talented and hope there is more to come.
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Woe to the woman who can't have sex with the one man she wants to, or to the man that completely understands.
Yes, Georgina Kincaid, aka Thetis, aka Fleur, and aka Letha, among other names (which got annoying since each main character called her something different), is slaving at love and sex like the rest of us mortals. But all of that made more complicated by the fact that she has sex with other men in order to take in their life force, and condemn them to hell. Evil is as evil does, and boy, is it in a great package, right?
Maybe, and maybe not. At least, that's what our many personalitied reigning succubus believes. While Seth, who's fast becoming the love of her life, even as she knows it could do more harm than good, the whole no touch clause is becoming the third wheel in their relationship. The issue is made ever more complicated when an old time friend (literally) comes prancing around. Bastian, an incubus on the run, is in a crux. He tasted what he had not right to taste and is trying to redeem himself by nailing a hardcore radio schmoozing and very right-wing Christian evangelist, by the name of Dana Dailey. The problem? Despite his centuries of oozing talent he learned from our gal Georgie, he's hitting a dry pot. What he doesn't get, and fails to notice due to his duress of getting killed for good, is the fact that Dana's not even remotely what he thinks she is.
Meanwhile, Doug, Georgie's assistant manager friend, and lead singer for an up and coming band, begins to exhibit the signs of a drug addition. While it seemingly seems to amp his abilities, and the entire bands as well, it also has a devastating side effect. What Georgie later discovers is that it's not an ordinary drug, in fact, it's extraordinary, as in...a drug that should stay on her side of the block.
Let's get to the point here (even if I didn't in the synopsis): this is a story about Georgie's personal and emotional growth as a succubus in love with a human mortal, and a man. Everything else, from Bastian's conquest (which was not only annoying and empty, with little pull or even interest) to Doug's near-death-experience and the fact that Georgie ends up taking out a major player in the whole immortal vs immortal game (for now, it's way underdone and not very well developed, though it could be fodder for later books) all are nothing but padding around the main theme at hand. None of which pulls the story along. While it's not bad padding, it's a little tedious to get through, though Mead does make sure to tie up the loose ends well enough, there are at least one or two questions left mysteriously unanswered.
In this second book, Georgie is at a crossroads between her reality and the reality that everyone else lives by, normalcy and every day specialness. She's also trying to understand her past lives to understand the situation she's in now, with Seth. But here, while the growth and character development is done well, certain turn of events at the end of it, once which involves Georgie betraying the trust between her and Seth, the way that unfurls and is handled is unsatisfactory with a rather syrupy sweet resolution. In fact, everything, including all the wrongs from beginning and up to the end, is wrapped up in a pretty little bow and given (somewhat hurriedly) its good graces.
The great skill that Mead has always done well is blending Georgie's past with her present, as it seems best and useful to understand her and her emotions. Most cannot do this, and it's hell to read. But it's simple and never lengthy, and always relevant to the situation at hand. Mead's ability to deliver good action and disturbance as well as balancing both excitement and adventure, tongue in and cheek quips with thoughtful and enlightening introspection and the grin worthy scenes, lets this lesser effort fall onto a mid-ground level. Good, but she can do better. The wittiness and stark honestly of Georgina while refreshing, her rowdy troupe of friends were sorely missed but the solid writing ability and strong story telling, though weak here, is still present and promising, giving me the hope that there aren't just one hit wonder writers out there. Or a waste of my time.
Succubus on Top, while good, is not the same calibre as the very first one, but it won't stop you from wanting to read it, and relish getting your grubby hands on the second one. Just like me.
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Georgina is a succubus and an immortal. Her very existence depends on having sex with mortals so that she can take a little bit of their life force for her own. Georgina is now in a new and loving relationship with her favorite author and mortal, Seth. The problem is that she can't touch her boyfriend in an intimate way without sucking years off his life, pun intended. So Georgina and Seth have a mentally satisfying and sexually frustrating relationship.
Georgina's pals start acting funky, she finds herself sensing an immortal signature she doesn't recognize and in the midst of another mystery. Adding to the chaos and fun in Georgina's world is the appearance of her long time best friend, Bastien, she hasn't seen him in ages and he is on a mission of his own.
After reading the very first book in the series, Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, Book 1), I wasn't sure where this one would head. I really enjoyed the very first book and this one, I believe, exceeded that one. This book gives us another glimpse into Georgina's past as a mortal and her past as a succubus. I enjoy Georgina's complex personality. As an immortal and a succubus she is sexy and confident, but she also has a huge heart, sense of loyalty and some vulnerability.
Like the last book there is a very decent mystery and plenty of succubus lovin'. Mixed in with all the heat is a good dose of hilarity and an abundance of show stealing side characters. I found myself tearing up a few times as I found this book emotionally deep and touching. And I have to say the last chapter is probably one of the most erotic, moving, intimate and romantic things I have ever read. It was perfect. I am loving this series and am looking forward to the subsequent book, Succubus Dreams (Georgina Kincaid, Book 3).
Cherise Everhard, August 2008
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This book is a fun follow-up to the very first in the series, _Succubus Blues_. Georgina Kincaid continues to be an engaging narrator, and this book continues the first's breezy mix of humor, sex and the supernatural.
That said, I did have some problems with this book, mainly related to Georgina not "connecting the dots". In the very first book, Georgina told us that despite being something of a ditz with a messed-up personal life, she was actually quite smart, that nobody dumb survives several thousand years in style. Of course this could be self-delusion, but events in book one pretty much confirmed her self assessment.
In *this* book, she completely misses two facts that are evident to the the reader almost immediately. The situation involving the band is the more excusable, though she *really* should have made the connections, but the situation involving Dana bears directly on the job she's had for over a thousand years, and is supposedly quite good at. It beggars credulity that an experienced incubus like Bastien couldn't figure out what was going on and having them *both* fail to figure it out is just unbelievable. In addition, it took her an awfully long time to figure out an obvious loophole in her "intimacy" issues with Seth.
Another problem I had with the Dana storyline is that it ignores Georgina's back-story. Here is a woman from the early Christian era who automatically condemns attitudes she herself must have been raised with (and who indeed spent thousands of years living in societies with similar mores) with nary a word about how she came to change her mind. I also didn't care for the author trying to sugarcoat Georgina's betrayal by doling out an unnecessary bit of extenuation.
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