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Liked It “Just finished "Succubus in the City" by Nina Harper. It is a take off on the television series and movie "Sex and the City." I have occasionally caught an episode of "Sex and the City," but never got into the series. You don't have to have seen the series to find this book a gut-busting good...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “Not really fair to slam this author, as it's just not my genre. Read this for a book group.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Not really fair to slam this author, as it's just not my genre. Read this for a book group.”
Bonita M wrote this review Thursday, March 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“ Just finished "Succubus in the City" by Nina Harper. It is a take off on the television series and movie "Sex and the City." I have occasionally caught an episode of "Sex and the City," but never got into the series. You don't have to have seen the series to find this book a gut-busting good romp. Very funny. I am giving this one five stars and a recommendation to anyone who wants a good laugh”
Kath0451 wrote this review Monday, December 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Maggie comes to Big Knob, Indiana to find a great location for the next big SavALot store or find herself unemployed. Sean is the town hunk that is seriously tired of women. What happens when a newbie in a small town and the town hottie meet up with a little help from a local witch and wizard?
Christina T wrote this review Wednesday, October 29 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This book was pretty funny. Sean is swearing off women so Dorcas and Ambrose, a nice middle aged couple, hook him up with a de-hunking potion. Of course they do this on the sly as no one in Big Knob know that they are magic. Next thing Sean knows his hair is growing all kinds of crazy and his 20/20 eyesight turns wonky and he ends up needing some really ugly glasses. He thinks this is weird until he meets Maggie. Then all of a sudden he wants to woo her but doesn't think he can because he isn't as attractive any more. Maggie has no problem seeing through the magic (of course Dorcus and Ambrose's home made wine might have had something to do with that too) and next thing you know they can't wait to have hot monkey sex where ever they can.
I actually read the second book in the series first (not a huge problem reading them out of order) and am really enjoying the town of Big Knob and this author's sense of humor. Dorcus and Ambrose are delightful (Sean, a carpenter by trade, is asked by them to make a fold out sex bench because they keep breaking thier chairs) who are bannished to Big Knob as punnishment for their matchmaking mishaps in the magic community. I hope the author continues to write about Big Knob.”
“I liked this book. It was cute. I don't understand why Dorcas and Ambrose let Maggie remember about George but not Sean. It doesn't make any sense.”
jolymac wrote this review Saturday, October 4 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A cute and funny romance!
GinRobi wrote this review Monday, August 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
What can I say? While I’m a sucker for a happy ending, this one had me laughing in places as well.
Sean Madigan, the handsome, sexy stud muffin of Big Knob (okay, the synopsis had me laughing - who would give any town that for a name!), was just about every available women’s ‘go-to-guy’ for great sex. And Sean, being a guy, wouldn’t say no. But it got to the point where sex wasn’t enough anymore and stopped - for nearly a year, even avoiding the women as much as possible. But the women don’t make it easy for him. I must say, the author was really inventive with the places and ’suggestions’. He’s thinking about settling down, and the women have him on the run.
The first line, and the rest of the paragraph, set up the story really well. You’re snorting, trying not to laugh right then and there. Just when you think the women are about to tear off his clothes in the middle of the street, Dorcas and Ambrose, unknowingly to Sean, come to the rescue. Serendipity, I’d say. They help him with what he wants - too well, I might add.
In comes Maggie Grady. She likes her boss, likes her job, but is getting desperate. As a location finder for SaveALot, she’d been out-bid by the rival store, MegaMart, too many times and is desperately seeking the perfect location. Then a surprising e-mail sets in motion the rest of the story. If the location is perfect, Big Knob is the ticket at saving Maggie’s job. But she doesn’t know what she’s in for…
What she wasn’t ready for was Sean. No longer a stud muffin to the rest of the women, sporting awful looking glasses and extremely unruly hair, he’s still very ’stud muffiny’ to Maggie, and she doesn’t want to fall for him. Finding out that the location she’s looking at is the very one Sean has been working for doesn’t help the situation, and now Sean is determined to sway Maggie in another direction.
While the sex is erotic, it’s not overly graffic, which was a plus. It was nice to read something like this for a change - where words were chosen carefuly to give the reader the idea, but not graffic to the point of losing interest. But there’s a lot of it.
I did find that there could have been just a bit more to the plot, though. I mean, Sean had wanted help in the first place to back the women, but the more he thought about it, the more he was hoping that the great sex would distract and sway Maggie away from the property he wants. I did like, however, that the story proves the point that looks aren’t everything … and can be deceiving. And even with all the fumbling, he still swept her off her feet; not despite it but maybe because of it.
I sort of felt, however, that the whole George the dragon thing almost took away part of the story. I mean, Dorcas and Ambrose’s exile to Big Knob was the whole point for them - because of George. But it sort of really didn’t go with the story - almost a diversion.
Still, the story was cute, funny and I’m sure I’ll pick up the second book.”
“This book was ok, I'm one, that once I start reading I can't put the book down until I'm finished. This book took me almost 7 days to finish reading it. I made myself read it cause I bought it. The story line draws you in, but it's hard to continue,it does have funny and sexy parts, but...It wasn't for me.”
Letty G wrote this review Sunday, April 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This story falls pretty heavily on the silly side, but it’s still a fun read. The hero is so hot, he has women propositioning him right and left. Upside-down and sideways too. And he’s sick of it. When he meets up with the new couple in town—who are wizard/witches and have been banished to rural Indiana to deal with a recalcitrant dragon—they offer to do something about his too-sexy-for-his-own-good problem. Apparently by messing up his hair and making him nearsighted. They want him to find his soul-mate. The heroine is hunting for a perfect site for a Big Box discount store—her job is on the line, and the perfect site in Big Knob, Indiana currently has an old Victorian on it, one the hero lived in as a child and wants to buy and restore to his dream home. There’s a lot of silliness as he wavers from hot to not, and learns how to romance a girl (he’s never had to before), trying to talk her out of buying the property. There’s a family of skunks, the afore-mentioned dragon, and a few potions gone wrong, and other stuff, before we get to the happy ending. Fun read.”
Gail Dayton wrote this review Friday, November 16 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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