You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Aug 04, 2010 AH rated it really liked it

Shelves: demons, zzread-april-2011, own, first-in-series, dragons

You Slay Me had me giggling right from the first page. The book had some hilarious situations that could only happen to a young, English speaking American in Paris. Our heroine Aisling Grey arrives in Paris and learns some extremely useful expressions from her cabbie Rene:

”J’ai une grenouille dans mon bidet.”

(I have a frog in my bidet).

I chuckled at all the uses of franglais – when French words are interchanged literally with English words, effectively changing their meanings: “The elevat ...more

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Oct 26, 2010 Francesca the Fierce (Under the Covers Book Blog) rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-paranormal-romance, dragons, books-read-2011, read-audio-books, angels-demons, witches-shaman-magic, humor

4.5 Stars

Aisling is such a fun heroine. She reminds me a bit of Stephanie Plum. She's kinda clueless at the beginning, gets sucked into a paranormal world she had no idea existed, and she had always been a part of.

I enjoyed the storyline a lot, it was very different. And for someone not used to reading books about dragons, I loved this one. It may have something to do with the extremely delicious green dragon Drake. He is sexy!

But, the book wouldn't be the same without Aisling's sidekick. A demo ...more

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Feb 07, 2011 Vivian rated it liked it

Shelves: first-in-series, read-2011

Aisling is a courier who falls into a world of supernatural beings. I was so frustrated because this girl knows nothing about who/what she is and no one will answer her questions, but she plods on in with all her stupidity and gets into trouble...repeatedly. If I was to make a comparison, she's a little annoying in the way MacKayla was in the first Fever book, but without the benefit of being young on her side.

Outside of being frustrated half the time, I did think there were good aspects to the ...more

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Jul 14, 2010 Catherine Banks rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult-fantasy, favorite-adult-series, dragons, read-in-2010

This was a good book. Lots of humor and the main character Aisling was hilarious. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a funny, but still serious book.

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