Georgina Kincaid

About the Georgina Kincaid series

Before Vampire Academy made her a YA star, Richelle Mead wrote the Georgina Kincaid series, an adult urban fantasy following a succubus working an ordinary-seeming day job at a Seattle bookstore while feeding on the life force of the men she seduces -- a existence she's grown weary of, centuries in. Succubus Blues opens the series establishing Georgina's double life, her found family of angels, demons, and fellow immortals navigating Seattle's supernatural underground, and a slow-burn romance complicated by the fact that intimacy with a succubus literally shortens her partners' lives.

Mead uses Georgina's supernatural condition to dig into very human anxieties -- guilt, self-worth, the cost of the choices we make to survive -- while keeping the series' tone wry and sharply funny even as the stakes escalate. It's markedly more adult in content and voice than Mead's YA work, with a heroine whose moral compromises are the point rather than something to be quickly resolved.

Complete at six books, Georgina Kincaid is a strong pick for readers who enjoy Mead's voice but want her adult urban fantasy rather than her YA series.

How to read this series

Read in publication order, starting with Succubus Blues. Georgina's relationships, her supernatural entanglements, and the series' central romantic complication all build continuously across the six books, so reading in sequence matters. It's a fully adult urban fantasy series, tonally and content-wise distinct from Mead's YA work (Vampire Academy, Bloodlines) -- no crossover characters or world to track between them.