Come To Me

Rating:
Summary: fun romantic fantasy
Review: For three millennia Samira the Succubus has visited the sexual fantasies of sleeping males; her attitude is that these cretins are worthless greedy fleas who want more than they earn. However, when her actions cause a war amongst mankind, the Queen of the Night sentences Samira to spend one month as a mortal so that she can learn why her people serve humanity. If she fails to grasp the tutorial, she will die. Worse the "teacher" will be Nicolae the Magician who suffered severely from Samira's war.

As Samira changes from a spoiled "fe-malevolent" she-devil to caring for Nicolae, the worst that could happen occurs to her; she falls in love with her host. Nicolae begins to heal through the warm tenderness of his "student" and soon they fall in love. Samira has learned her lesson too well for when the month is up she will go back to helping men with their erotic dreams, but what about hers.

This is a fun romantic fantasy starring a fabulous magician struggling to regain his life and an incubus cum mortal learning about the ups and downs of being human to include that love hurts yet feels good at the same time. The story line is action-packed and often humorous as Samira struggles with her new life form. However what makes this a superb tale is the transformation of the nasty unlikable Samira into a caring loving soul.

Harriet Klausner


Rating:
Summary: Daring idea but flawed
Review: I love Lisa Cach's books. The Changeling Bride is one of my top romances,
and many of her other's are fun, favorite reads. I was delighted when I
read she was going to have two books out in two months and that she
was returning to her fairy tale, paranormal style. After having read Come
to Me, I'm not so sure anymore.

The heroine of Come to Me is a sex dream demon, a succubus who
comes to men in their sleep and gives them pleasurable dreams.
Or rarely, nightmares to punish those who have treated the women
in their lives poorly. Samira has done this for over 3000 years and
the pattern almost never changes. Until one night when an incubus,
her male equivalent, asks a favor. He wants her to give a nightmare
to a Prince and break a political alliance with it. With no thought
as to its effect, she does and thereby brings war and terrible
suffering to another kingdom and one of its princes, Nicolae.

This prologue is, let me be honest, quite disturbing to read. I can
see why Cach does this, after all the heroine is a demon and
must be shown to need redeeming, but it's hard to read. Then
for the next third of the book, Samira is a dark creature until
she assumes human form for 30 days. Now all of a sudden,
we get Samira the wannabe cute demonette. Cach inserts
humor here, some of it literally bathroom humor, and tries
to make Samira cuddly and endearingly naive. The change
is stark and it's not easy to switch gears.

Then, during the last third, Samira gets a heart and goes all
care bear, group hug on us. Meanwhile, our hero Nicolae
spends his time searching for revenge by thumbing through
books on demonology and the occult. To do what? we don't
know. He doesn't know. No one knows and the story kind
of drifts. Then comes the "love conquers all" ending. Again
with a cute punch, that while original, doesn't quite match
the dark opening of the story.

Another point is that the book is fairly short, just less than
300 pages so Cach is forced to use the "I will never ______
again!" (love, trust, try) type of characterization and actions to move
her story and characters along. The subtle changes and shading
that I've enjoyed in other books just isn't here. All of which makes
me wish for the type of book I know she's written in the past.
This one was good in parts, OK overall but could have been
much better. C+/B-


Rating:
Summary: Samira is a succubus with a heart of gold
Review: Samira is a succubus, she knows what sex is, how to do it, but she has never actually had it. But something about Nicolai (?) draws her in, either his passion for his search or his angst, which he is full of among other things.
There are moments of hilarity in this book when she becomes a human. She despises water, and the bathroom thing is horrible.
For half the book she is like a victim which I didn't particularly care for. I mean she knows more about sex than anyone else in the world right? But there is one scene in this book. I enjoyed the next book with Theron much more.


Rating:
Summary: An excellent paranormal romance.
Review: Succubus Samira does a favor for her Incubus friend Theron, not knowing the nightmarish chain of events that come of it. Not until she meets Nicolae, a tormented Prince studying the black arts in an attempt to seek revenge on the man who has left his body and soul scarred. Samira is caught and punished, made a powerless human female that must aid Nicolae as well as learn why humans are superior. This is dark fairy tale has just the right touch of light to it and I am eager to read the next entry in the series.

Rating:
Summary: Wow
Review: Very sexy and very funny. The ending was a little abrupt, but you will love it. I can't wait to read more!