Saturday 18 April 2009

URBAN FANTASY REVIEW: Succubus in the City - Nina Harper


BOOK BLURB:

AFTER THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF ONE-NIGHT STANDS, A GIRL JUST WANTS A LITTLE MORE.

Working for Satan is a hot gig. The Devil really does wear Prada, and Lily can sport all the dazzling fashion she desires, eat all the fabulous food she craves, and hang for all eternity with her three demon girlfriends. But serving up bad boys to the fiery pits of Hell is just getting . . . lonely.

Lily gives the jerks, the creeps, and the liars the best (and last) night of their lives, but she's tired of waking up to a pile of ashes. She wants a guy who will stick around.

BUT A MYSTERIOUS MAN IS TURNING UP THE HEAT. . . .

Nathan Coleman is a devilishly handsome, laid-back P.I. who wants to ask Lily a few questions about a missing man. But someone'"or something'"wants Lily and her friends dead, and Nathan seems to know more than he'll admit to. Can a sweet-talking mortal and a girl from Hell find true love?


REVIEW:

To be blunt this really isn’t a series I can get into. It takes the aspects of Sex in the City and blends it with a Supernatural touch that really should have worked a treat but when the majority of the book is dealing with who’s eating where along with who’s wearing what then you really are dragging the bottom of the barrel. Add to the mix very little plot to maneuver the book with and it really did make me want to slit my wrists as it was making me die a slow and excruciatingly painful death.

Whilst the characters are there, one of the other things that I feel will upset a lot of the readers is how the cast keep mentioning how they don’t have to worry about their weight and keep their perfect sizes due to Satan’s influence with it not mattering a jot how much they eat. Its sickening and to be blunt more than annoying for all the ladies who are being force fed the magazine images of anything over a size zero being fat. I mean, come off it. Its ridiculous, its self serving and its basically a waste of time and money.

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