Succubus Blues

I will be writing my impressions of this book as I go along. I will classify the cliches that annoys me in a three point scale: minor, average and major. When too many cliches come together, or specially when paired with some others, they deserve a higher degree of dislike, but I will try to score them individually. Lets add a ‘+' sign to indicate that the cliche gets extra points when tied together with another one makes it worse.

First 25min
1) I heard about this book in a thread of suggestions for other books like Mercy Thompson. I picked it up with very low expectations. The fact that the protagonist is a sex goddess demoness gave me some hope, because it would be so terribly easy to make a cheesy, cliche filled young adult romance. I'm betting the author will surprise me.

2) Oh oh, I just started reading and a major red flag, one of my many hated cliches (major):
- “Protagonist girl gets harassed by bad guy. Authorities find out about the incident, the guy accuses the girl and she apologizes.”.
- This is the exactly opposite of what Mercy would do. She would describe in details the whole meeting with the guy, making it very clear she did nothing wrong.

As with any other thing that I dislike, it is all a matter of both degree and amount of exposure. If this turns out to be a minor part of the plot, it is fine.

3) Still in the very first few pages:
- the protagonist is an ordinary woman who works on a book shop, and loves reading. Even though she is immortal and has super powers, she lives her life just like every other person (minor+)
- Mercy pretty much doesn't have super powers, and she is a mechanic. Very different.

- she has a crush on a famous author who she is about to meet. But she can never be with him, because: (minor+)
- just getting near him will make him feel somewhat attracted to her (her succubus power)
- if they do get together, she will drain his energy when having sex (also a succubus power)
- Mercy love interest comes latter in the book if I'm not mistaken. And it even kind of caught me by surprise by the end of the book.

- the very fact that the book started with this screams of ‘romance' as the main theme of the story.
- Mercy handle this by shrugging off the handsome werewolves in her life. They were mostly background in the first book.

First 59min. I stopped reading the book, if you consider a dead obvious revelation in the first 10% of the book to be spoilers, don't read the covered section.

- the protagonist is addicted to coffee (minor)
- She meets a guy in line while attending her register. Due to their dialog, if this turns out to be the author she admires, I'll stop reading.- Bad guy dies. She is accused of his murder. (average)- The guy in line turns out to be the author. She realizes that she made a fool of herself because of her previous dialogue with him. This just marked the book as a romance for me, and I fully expect a significant part of the book will be dedicated to their relationship, how she whats him but can't be with him. How ordinarily he would dismiss her as just another groupie, but BECAUSE she didn't know who he was, he is fascinated with her. (MAJOR++++++, CRINGY++++++)

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