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★★★½☆ (This is a review of the audio book.) Elisabeth Rodgers narrates the six novels in the Georgina Kincaid series, and she certainly does a nice job of it in the first one. While she didn’t differentiate the voices dramatically, the way she read it made it so I had no trouble telling who was speaking when the many characters were in an extended dialogue. This, I’m sure, is partly due to the writing craft of the author.
I’ve had such strong feelings about this one, it makes it hard to rate. It is no coincidence that Georgina is fickle and, alas, so am I. (Something I didn’t particularly want to look at about myself, especially while trying to decide on kitchen counter top material.) Just who does she love? Seth or Roman? Interestingly, who she loves becomes a crucial part of the story. Although, I’m pretty sure it isn’t Warren, her bookstore boss, whom she has been boinking for a while, thereby slowing sucking the life out of him; she’s a succubus, after all.
This aspect of her nature is part of my issues with Georgina. As much as there is something about her I really like – and I feel for her because she doesn’t want to be a succubus but a human – I didn’t like that she had feelings for one man and indulges her sexual appetites with others. I don’t mean just her ‘prey’ in this instance, but those whom she is interested in romantically – to varying degrees. Her amorous feelings were capricious, to say the least. She sure had succubus tendencies before she actually became one, no matter how noble her reasons for giving up her soul in her distant past. Nevertheless, I'm betting this aspect gets explored more as the series continues.
There were lots of males – angels, demons, imps, nephilims, and humans – in the storyline for me to drool over; more so than females, and they all think Georgina is beautiful – yet remain just ‘friends’ with her. They range from someone who can save her from a bad predicament, to someone she can turn to for a shoulder to cry on when relationships go south, to someone from whom she can ask a pretty big favor. However, the females that do pop up are pretty dominant or opinionated.
It was clear early on, when writer Seth discussed the likelihood of Georgina’s favorite book characters – Cady and O’Neill – ever getting together, that this storyline is going to be a long running “Peyton Place” before a happily ever after – if we ever get one! There is so much more than the standard ‘love triangle’ going on.
Still, there is the whole question of who killed a vampire named Duane, and the identity of the Nephilim, both of which makes a good mystery through-out. Also, the plotting was good; it and the characters held my attention, and I liked the author’s “voice.”
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