Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead

Kensington, Mar 2007, $15.00

ISBN: 0758216416

Georgina Kincaid has seen the profiling statistics that mortals sell their souls for one of prime reasons: sex, money, power, revenge and love. Being a succubus whose expertise is to pleasure men, she understands the part about selling sex. However, Georgina wonders how low a shape-shifting demon can go as she has no social life though she works the Seattle circuit.

The problem is finding a date in which she does not steal a soul or at least a piece of a person's life. After an admonishment from her superior Jerome the lazy demon over a cat fight with a vampire and the afterglow of a session with Martin, she just wants to lie in bed. Thus when her peer at the Emerald City Books & Caf demands she comes in to help as everyone else is sick, she reluctantly agrees though it is her day off from her day job as an assistant manager. The good part of coming in today besides the norm of reading books for free and drinking white chocolate mochas also gratis is that her favorite author Seth Mortensen is doing a signing. However her fantasy lover will have to wait because someone is killing the local demons starting with Duane and Georgina is the prime suspect.

Modernizing the tale of Thetis and Pelus from Greek mythology, but placing it in a combo chick make that succubus (not sure if a demon can be classified a chick) lit amateur sleuth fantasy realm, Richelle Mead provides a fabulous one sitting story. Georgina is a terrific lead character, who investigates the serial killings of demons and other supernatural creatures while falling in love with the mortal writer. Readers will enjoy this sexy soul-sucking siren seeking out the Seattle slayer before she is convicted by a jury of her peers just because of her sarcastic sharp yet so sensual tongue.

Harriet Klausner