I have to admit that while I was pretty taken with this book and will absolutely buy the next one in the series, it isn't the "grab you from the beginning and never let go" type of read that I was hoping it'd be. What it is though, is a fun read that is worth spending a few afternoons on.

There's been succubi in fiction before, but we don't often see them as the main character or at least as a sympathetic main character. As a result this book ended up being a little more fresh than it might have otherwise been since it does tend to use a lot of the typical tropes you see in fiction. I loved that Georgina had to have sex in order to live and I love that not only did she seem to love the sex she had to have, but that she also didn't love all of the sex she had to have. Being a succubus doesn't mean that you can always choose who you want to sleep with and Mead was perfectly willing to show us that aspect of Georgina's character. (Although mercifully she didn't show us as much as she could have, thankfully.) I also have to say that I was thankful to see that Mead didn't go full-Anita Blake and have Georgina sleeping with everything that swang in her direction. Georgina does have *some* standards.

Georgina's background was also pretty interesting as well and I hope that we get to see more of it as the series progresses. She's got a good origin story and that she's lived through countless years is good fodder for future plot points.

What kept this from being a 4 or 5 star read was that other than Georgina's succubi nature and her killer backstory, there just wasn't a lot here that was original or really stood out from the rest of the urban fantasy regime. It's better written than some of the other books out there and I definitely recommend it and plan on doing so for my customers, but it's not something that I see myself gasping excitedly over as they bring it to the registers. Being overly familiar doesn't make it a bad thing, just something that I might not get as excited over as I would some of the other books out there.

Even so, this is something that has still managed to make it onto my "have to read them all" list. Despite Mead giving us familiar tropes, she has a good style and manages to add enough fresh material to where I'd say that this is a must read for urban fantasy fans.