Review: Succubus on Top (Gerogina Kincaid #2) by Richelle Mead

This is a review of the SECOND book in the series and while I'm mostly being vague it might be a little spoilery anyway. 

I bought this right after I finished Succubus Blues, in May 2013, but then never got around to reading it, until now. If you want to read what I thought about the first book: Goodreads. I did not like Succubus on Top all that much, but that is mostly just me wanting something else, which I really can't hold against Richelle Mead or her main character Georgina. As the first book this is one dash mystery, one dash succubus sex, one dash romance and a whole lot of trying to keep your life sorted (even really old succubi have trouble in that department!). It is entertaining, fairly evenly paced and is resolved in satisfactory manner. It's a totally okay urban fantasy/paranormal romance/mystery story.

I still really like this universe, even more now that they've introduced other pantheons than Christianity. I just don't like the characters much, which isn't a requirement for a book to be good and/or enjoyable, but I spent too much time being annoyed at their choices and their behavior. This problem is entirely mine though, and I'm sure other readers will get a kick out of it. One of my gripes with the first book was that Georgina is thousands of years old (literally) and still acts like that isn't the case. In the first book she seemed clueless about everything that was going on regarding the mystery, and while she's better in this one I still don't get why a person who works at a bookstore (and loves books, and has a lot knowledge) don't know some of these things (I realize that it is for plot purposes). She's just exasperating sometimes. I don't much care for Seth either, and Bastien, well, what an ass. 

Another thing I didn't like was that there was too much relationship and to little mystery. The balance in the previous book was much more even, this one landed too heavy on the relationship side of things, which I'm also really not that into. Again, that's personal preference. The writing is fine, on par with the previous book, but none of the plot lines were all that interesting, I preferred the ambrosia one over the others, and that wasn't given a lot of attention. 

Bob12: Day 7 + sum up

And it's over. It was a bit of a wibbly wobbly experience for me this year, with blue days, and stormy days (the latter is not a metaphor) and distractions from Netflix and my desire to sleep forever.

Day 7:
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 353
Time spent reading: 5 hours
Social? Nah.

Results:
Finish my main current read (Råta by Siri Petterson): Done
Read 4 books (in addition to the one I'm finishing!): 2.5 books. So not done.
1 book has to be part of a series: Done, the first book I read was part of a series.
Read an average of 150 pages per day (1050 total): 1045 - Soooo close! I'm considering it done.
Read an average of 2 hours per day (14 total): Done: 16 hours
Communicate & update: daily blogs + tweets and comments + at least one challenge: Fail. 

Books completed:


Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (affiliate link)

Råta by Siri Pettersen. (Goodreads link)
The Merciless by Danielle Vega (affiliate link)

Books begun:
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
Succubus on Top by Richelle Mead.


Thoughts: 
I'm unhappy with my participation in fun social things, as well as my lack of reading on some days, but all in all I'm pleased. I've learned that time spent reading is perhaps the best goal (because trust me one page of a book =/= one page of another), and I chose a really slow, long book this week and that just kept me from hitting the other goals. I did kickstart my reading year though, and I'm really pleased with that. I'm already well underway. Now to tackle the challenges & goals I've set for the rest of the year!

Bob12: Stats day 5 & 6

Stats day 5+6:
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 54
Time spent reading: 2 hours
Social? Nah.

Book I've been reading?
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (page 144).


Stats total
Books read: 1.5
Pages read: 693
Time spent reading: 12 hours
Social aspect: Some, but not much.
Other goals achieved: Part of series, finish the book I was reading when challenge started.

Books completed:
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (affiliate link)
Råta by Siri Pettersen. (Goodreads link)

Thoughts: I've been watching Alias instead... Whoops. That was my Friday, my Saturday was a little different: There was a minor matter of a storm, a falling tree and no electricity for the better part of the day, as well as getting to know my toilet better than I care to,  I also hit a sloooow part of my book and I felt like I was reading and reading and reading, but getting nowhere. '

I'm annoyed at myself for Friday, but fine with Saturday, there really were a lot of valid distractions.

Bob12: Day 4 stats

Stats day 4:
Books finished: 0.2 (rest of the rest of a book...)
Pages read: 170
Time spent reading: 3 hours
Social? Nah.

Books I've been reading?
Råta by Siri Pettersen, which I also read yesterday and finished today. I've been working my way though this one slowly, because I didn't want it to end.
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

Stats total

Books read: 1.5
Pages read: 639
Time spent reading: 12 hours
Social aspect: Some, but not much.
Other goals achieved: Part of series, finish the book I was reading when challenge started.

Books completed:
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (affiliate link)
Råta by Siri Pettersen. (Goodreads link)

Other thoughts: I'm so tired, I just want to sleep, and that means that I'll read less than I want to, though I'm mostly on track, so I'm not complainig, I was hoping I'd be more social and read more than what I'm currently doing, but I have forced myself out of a reading slump. So hurrah for that!

BoB12: Day 3 updates!

Stats day 3:
Books read: 0.3
Pages read: 100
Time spent reading: 2 hours
Social? Nah.

Book I've been reading? Råta by Siri Pettersen, which is a Norwegian YA fantasy novel (#2 in trilogy) and it's damn good. If this gets a translation to English I'll force you all to buy it.

I did not read as much as I wanted to, but I cleaned a kitchen cabinet, went for a walk, watched the first episode of Broadchurch (series 2), changed ink in my printer and printed printables for my notebook because why not? Also got a new router so no my Internet runs as fast as we pay it to do! All in all a good day even though I have the sadz.

Stats total

Books read: 1.3
Pages read: 389
Time spent reading: 9 hours
Social aspect: Some, but not much.
Other goals achieved: Part of series.

BoB12: Day 1+2 sum up

Well, this is going both great and terrible at once. 

The terrible: The socializing and challenges are not really happening for me, even though I was really looking forward to it, I had a blast last time, but I'm currently stuck in a New Years depression and making that effort is just not happening, I have to do put that energy elsewhere, besides Twitter disagrees with me today. I have left a few comments on some blogs though, much calmer and I also like reading the blog posts, it's relaxing to me, especially after having just finished my book and my brain needs to tune into the real world again. 

I'm doing better on the reading front, I've read one book, and spent about six hours reading! Woooh! 

Stats day 1+2:

Books read: 1

Pages read: 289

Time spent reading: 7 hours

Social aspect: Some, but not much. 

Other goals achieved: Part of series. 

The book I finished was Claire DeWitt and the city of the dead (book depository affiliate link), and I got both the kindle version and the audible version (for 6 dollars total!) and started listening, but then had to switch to reading because listening didn't work for me with this book. I really didn't like it much at first, but then it surprised me and I couldn't put it down. I don't know why, this weird spaced out PI who sees clues where there aren't any, is obsessed with this book that is rare, yet appears everywhere, and has weird dreams that mean stuff (yup) should not appeal to me, but she does. I'm not completely into the story itself (trust me, you've read/seen it a million times before, it's not uncommon in the crime/thriller/mystery world), but there is something here that engages with me. I want to unravel Claire DeWitt, I want to know a lot of things we don't learn in this one and I've already put the second book on my wishlist. To be honest I half expected it all to turn out to be a fever dream by the end of the book, but nope, this woman is just on a lot of drugs. I bought this on a whim, because I wanted to read crime fiction (rarely read the plain ones, I usually go for supernatural/sci-fi elements, and when I go random I apparently get trippy ones like this. I admit that I bought it because it was so yellow and had a catchy title, so uh, yeah. It was totally worth the little I paid for it). 

Kristine's Bout of Books 12 sign up post!

What, it's time for BoB12? Waaah. I've been planning for this since the last one, but apparently my brain has forgotten what time is. Bout of Books is a read-a-thon, and I've participated once before, it is really relaxed and fun (you make your own goals). I'll just give you their blurb:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 5th and runs through Sunday, January 11th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 12 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

My goals are almost the same as last time:
Finish my main current read (Råta by Siri Petterson)
Read 4 books (in addition to the one I'm finishing!)
1 book has to be part of a series (but not #1)
Read an average of 150 pages per day (1050 total)
Read an average of 2 hours per day (14 total)
Communicate & update: daily blogs + tweets and comments + at least one challenge. Though if my internet conks out (likely, as it's half broken and only shows up when it feels like it) before we get it to run normally again this might not work out, but I'll manage to tweet at least. 

TBR: 

I'm very unsure, I think I'll mostly just read whatever feels right, but I'm also going to attempt The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, so I'm guessing I'll be reading two books alongside each other at all time seeing as that's a really fat book...