Book 68, 2015
Nov. 23rd, 2015 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeToday, I finished reading the book I had at the office. It was Gentlemen Prefer Succubi by Jill Myles. It's the first in the author's "Succubus Diaries" series.
Plain jane Jackie Brighton wakes up in a dumpster, and her life gets weirder from there. Her appearance changes from dowdy to va-va-voom, and she can barely control her own libido. Jackie learns that she's been changed into a Succubus, and she meets the only other "Suck" in town, a porn star named Remy. Since no one gave Jackie a Succubus handbook, she inadvertently makes a deal with an angel. Her faux pas lands Noah, a fallen angel who has taken Jackie under his wing, into the clutches of the vampire queen Nitocris. To free Noah, Jackie must retrieve an ancient halo and return it to the queen. Nitocris sends one of her vamps, Zane, with Jackie to make sure she succeeds.
The premise was interesting, but several points stuck in my craw. I didn't like the fact that the angel was portrayed as the "bad guy". I didn't like that Jackie was basically a slave to her new nature. While the sex scenes were definitely sexy, her reluctance made them cringe-worthy for me. Also, she and Noah got it on in a church confessional. Now, I'm not uber-religious, but that was so much NO right there.
One review on the back cover called this story "laugh out loud funny". Um, I found it amusing, but I never once laughed at anything. Two lines in particular appealed to me:
Sometimes I hated my job. Mostly due to my boss, who made a boring job completely unlikable,
I can relate!
The security guard should have at least stopped by to say hi or do a bit of random clubbing with a nightstick.
Okay, that was pretty funny!
Overall, an average read. Giving this one a 3 out of 5:
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Plain jane Jackie Brighton wakes up in a dumpster, and her life gets weirder from there. Her appearance changes from dowdy to va-va-voom, and she can barely control her own libido. Jackie learns that she's been changed into a Succubus, and she meets the only other "Suck" in town, a porn star named Remy. Since no one gave Jackie a Succubus handbook, she inadvertently makes a deal with an angel. Her faux pas lands Noah, a fallen angel who has taken Jackie under his wing, into the clutches of the vampire queen Nitocris. To free Noah, Jackie must retrieve an ancient halo and return it to the queen. Nitocris sends one of her vamps, Zane, with Jackie to make sure she succeeds.
The premise was interesting, but several points stuck in my craw. I didn't like the fact that the angel was portrayed as the "bad guy". I didn't like that Jackie was basically a slave to her new nature. While the sex scenes were definitely sexy, her reluctance made them cringe-worthy for me. Also, she and Noah got it on in a church confessional. Now, I'm not uber-religious, but that was so much NO right there.
One review on the back cover called this story "laugh out loud funny". Um, I found it amusing, but I never once laughed at anything. Two lines in particular appealed to me:
Sometimes I hated my job. Mostly due to my boss, who made a boring job completely unlikable,
I can relate!
The security guard should have at least stopped by to say hi or do a bit of random clubbing with a nightstick.
Okay, that was pretty funny!
Overall, an average read. Giving this one a 3 out of 5:
♦♦♦
