SUCCUBUS BLUES by RICHELLE MEAD

Kensington Books

A BOOK REVIEW
by ANDREA MIDDENDORF

Georgina Kincaid leads a normal life: she’s the assistant manager of a Seattle book store, addicted to white chocolate mochas, has an eclectic group of friends, and her love life stinks despite her immense crush on the writer-in-residence Seth Mortensen, and, oh yeah, she’s a succubus, which tends to put a bit of a damper on said love life. In her debut novel, Succubus Blues, Richelle Mead introduces her readers to a version of Seattle’s underground that few may have guessed at: imps, vampires, demons, angels, and of course our heroine succubus, but something wicked is stirring on Seattle’s streets, threatening the lives of Georgina and her friends. Immortals are dying, and not just dying, but are brutally murdered.

As the novel progresses, Georgina delves deeper into what is hunting immortals even as she struggles with her semi-existent love life; being unable to have a relationship with a guy without taking part of his life force kind of puts a damper on romance. Romance soon falls by the wayside, and even Georgina’s snarky, smart-ass remarks won’t save her as the body count increases and the evil that both heaven and hell want to deny closes in.

Succubus Blues is a sexy, fast-paced, entertaining first novel by Richelle Mead. At times hilariously funny, at times heart-wrenchingly sad, Succubus Blues maintains integrity throughout and doesn’t fall into the trap of becoming a drawn-out, overdone sexual romp as one might think it to be with the word “succubus” in the title. No, Mead successfully navigates through that minefield to produce a witty and smart first novel. By the novel’s end, I wanted more of Georgina and her pals, and was left with a strange craving for white chocolate mochas.

Andrea Middendorf lives and plays in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. She has a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota, and has so many books she has to keep buying bookshelves, but now she is running out of wallspace. Andrea is an aspiring writer with a serious caffiene addiction, working on short stories and a full-length novel, with a bit of poetry sprinkled in here and there.


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