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Ballantine Books (2005), Paperback, 368 pages
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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. HTML:�I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne�if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.� After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And that�s just her day job. . . .… (more)
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LibraryThing member TadAD
As I thought, it's another erotica series with a little adventure. I won't bother.
Ms. Hamilton seems to want to be like Anne Rice when the latter wrote as A. N. Roquelaure...without the same level of writing talent and without knowing when enough is enough.
Ms. Hamilton seems to want to be like Anne Rice when the latter wrote as A. N. Roquelaure...without the same level of writing talent and without knowing when enough is enough.
LibraryThing member turtlesleap
A colorized taxonomy of the male fairies who regularly sleep with the heroine, mostly. There is a very thin story line that barely holds this together but it seems to be all about the sex, and of course the varying color schemes of the characters.
LibraryThing member John5918
A continuation of a series which is apparently about sex between different combinations of humans and/or faeries in the modern world. And somewhere amongst all that there is a plot about two characters vying for the faerie throne. Whichever one produces an heir first gets the job. But the plot
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development is dreadfully slow and is bogged down in idle chit-chat. Show Less
LibraryThing member sdtaylor555
A great second book to a great new series!! I love these faerie men :)
LibraryThing member Flamika
I think by the time I got to this novel, I was already tired of the "harem" theme in Hamilton's works. I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as the first novel, and I probably won't ever reread it again. I'm not even sure I can remember all that happened in this book.
LibraryThing member bastet
An extremely lusty tale of a partial fairy who has to claim her rightful inheritance. I'm not usually into this sort of reading, but Hamilton has a way of keeping it interesting. And the sex is pretty good, too.
LibraryThing member SunnySD
Laurell Hamilton's books tend to include a lot of sex, and a lot of violence. Often simultaneously. This one is no exception.
Meridith, the half-human, half-fey, sometime private security expert, and princess of Faerie takes on a client. Maeve Reed, a famous Hollywood actress, has a tiny little
Nothing is ever simple, and Merry and her band of faerie warriors aren't in for an easy time of it. Protecting Maeve just may prove to be the simple part.
A good solid second installment.
Meridith, the half-human, half-fey, sometime private security expert, and princess of Faerie takes on a client. Maeve Reed, a famous Hollywood actress, has a tiny little
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secret - she's a goddess - and a very large problem: she wants to get pregnant, but doing so makes her a target of the Seelie court's ruler.Nothing is ever simple, and Merry and her band of faerie warriors aren't in for an easy time of it. Protecting Maeve just may prove to be the simple part.
A good solid second installment.
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LibraryThing member teharhynn
I love her books. I had tried to put these off for a while so i wouldn't run out, but having finished this one, all I want to do is read the rest of them! Hurry up and write, I'm going to catch up soon.
LibraryThing member miyurose
Just cleaning the rest of the Laurell K. Hamilton books out of my to-read list. This series is alright ... I don't like it as much as the Anita Blake series. This storyline in this book wrapped up a little too quickly for my tastes.
LibraryThing member lesleydawn
This was a compelling enough read, but as it was coming to a close I felt as if there were very important plot points that Hamilton sort of just skimmed over instead of truly telling her reader about. Such as there being more mass murders. I understand that Doyle and the others wouldn't know about
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the first one in the civilian home, but they did know about the second because it had been on the news, but the reader wasn't told. Secondly, I felt that Maeve Reed's whole situation was sort of skimmed over. We meet her, she tells Merry her problem, then nothing till they are suddenly performing a fertility right. There was no explanation of how they got to that point. There are many other cases like this throughout the book. It is almost as if Hamilton invests so much energy talking about sex and going into minute detail about clothing and hair that her plot suffers. I guess some readers aren't reading these books for plot, but an attempt would be nice for the rest of us. Show Less
LibraryThing member seph
Another fun, fluffy read in the Merry Gentry series.
LibraryThing member gerleliz
I would like a little more story with my sex.
LibraryThing member TwilightBlue
If you like your gothic romance mixed with your "smut" books - you'll like Laurell K. Hamilton's Gentry series. The sex scenes are spectacular. What's great is there's even a plot. Got to like that.
LibraryThing member averitasm
I am glad I am reading this series each book gets better and you get more of the plot line. I love her work and writing.
LibraryThing member Czrbr
Book Description: USA, Ballantine,2002. Hardcover First Edition (First Printing) Full string numbers 1-10. Fine in Near fine d/w. Signed by Author. As new, appears unread. 326pages .Second in the Meredith Gentry series.
LibraryThing member JalenV
Princess Meredith is half Unseelie sidhe on her father's side. On her mother's side she's one-quarter Seelie sidhe, one-eighth brownie, and one-eighth human. It's her human blood that makes her mortal. Her late father was the brother of the Unseelie Queen and her mother is the niece of the Seelie
The Seelie Court has had a much better reputation than the Unseelie Court for a long time. Merry knows better. When she was still a child she had dared to ask why Conchenn, goddess of beauty and charisma, had been banished from the Seelie Court. Her great-uncle, King Taranis, overheard her and beat her nearly to death. No Seelie, not even her mother, tried to save her. In chapter 13 we find out what the Seelie do when their children are born deformed. Well, we already had a hint in the first book because Merry said her mother's three older half-brothers live at the Unseelie Court. What used to happen to them before 400 years ago was even worse.
Merry's father made sure she knew about the various cultures among the Unseelie. She went to public school in the USA, so she knows about American culture, too. There's quite a bit of trouble caused by other characters' ignorance, prejudice, and fear. Conchenn, who has been a Hollywood movie star over 50 years under the name of Maeve Reed, wants Merry's help. The beliefs she has about the Unseelie would be laughable if they weren't so sad.
We learned in the last book that one of Merry's lovers, Rhys, is prejudiced against goblins. He tries to take his hate out on half-goblin, half-Seelie Kitto. Merry has to work hard to stop him. In the process Rhys learns what his ignorance of the culture of one of the 'inferior' fey races cost him.
Do we learn why Conchenn was exiled and Taranis almost beat his great-niece to death? Yes. It's a very ugly story.
Galen still hasn't healed from the horror inflicted on him in the first book. The cure involves accepting a representative from Queen Niceven of the demi-fey, and Sage is not a nice guy. If that's not enough, Kitto is very, very sick. If you can't figure out what it'll take to keep Kitto alive, then you didn't read the first book.
There's a murder mystery in the mix. It's not as bad as being burned alive, but it's not a good way to die. Detective Lucy Tate from the first book calls in the Grey Detective Agency. Merry, Rhys, and Frost go to the scene. Merry is affected more than her guards/lovers, but she's never seen this many corpses at once. I'm just as glad they don't want to tell her how much worse slaughters they've seen.
Remember Lieutenant Peterson from chapter 6 of A Kiss of Shadows? He's back in chapter 22 and being a pain. Merry is being a bit hard on herself in claiming that Peterson was one of the officers she'd used to prove that the lust spell worked. She touched Detective Alvera with his permission. Still under the spell herself, she touched Officer Riley without his permission after Alvera was torn from her. Peterson, however, grabbed her spell-covered bare arms all on his own when he tried to keep Merry from touching anyone else.
It was his and his cops' own fault for not believing her, but Peterson has turned completely against Merry. He also refuses to believe that she didn't commit the gruesome murder that was meant to include the princess herself. If you remember the higher-ups in The X-Files and the human authorities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you can guess how he feels about any magical explanations.
One of the things I like about this series is that it introduces me to types of fey or names for them that I hadn't known before, such as the Gabriel Ratchets. They're mentioned in chapter 18. Chapter 20 is where we find out about Doyle's aunts, what one of his grandmothers was, and what the grandfather who mated with her was. We even find out why the Queen of Air and Darkness never had sex with him.
Merry's Aunt Andais's chief torturer, Ezekial, gets his name spelled 'Ezekiel' in this book. I wonder which spelling will stick.
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King. Neither court wanted her, really, until the action of the first book. Now Merry is co-heir to her Aunt Andais' throne. Her cousin Cel isn't the only member of the Unseelie who would rather see Merry dead than queen. She's back in Los Angeles, where she had fled before when she realized that she was going to be killed if she stayed at home.The Seelie Court has had a much better reputation than the Unseelie Court for a long time. Merry knows better. When she was still a child she had dared to ask why Conchenn, goddess of beauty and charisma, had been banished from the Seelie Court. Her great-uncle, King Taranis, overheard her and beat her nearly to death. No Seelie, not even her mother, tried to save her. In chapter 13 we find out what the Seelie do when their children are born deformed. Well, we already had a hint in the first book because Merry said her mother's three older half-brothers live at the Unseelie Court. What used to happen to them before 400 years ago was even worse.
Merry's father made sure she knew about the various cultures among the Unseelie. She went to public school in the USA, so she knows about American culture, too. There's quite a bit of trouble caused by other characters' ignorance, prejudice, and fear. Conchenn, who has been a Hollywood movie star over 50 years under the name of Maeve Reed, wants Merry's help. The beliefs she has about the Unseelie would be laughable if they weren't so sad.
We learned in the last book that one of Merry's lovers, Rhys, is prejudiced against goblins. He tries to take his hate out on half-goblin, half-Seelie Kitto. Merry has to work hard to stop him. In the process Rhys learns what his ignorance of the culture of one of the 'inferior' fey races cost him.
Do we learn why Conchenn was exiled and Taranis almost beat his great-niece to death? Yes. It's a very ugly story.
Galen still hasn't healed from the horror inflicted on him in the first book. The cure involves accepting a representative from Queen Niceven of the demi-fey, and Sage is not a nice guy. If that's not enough, Kitto is very, very sick. If you can't figure out what it'll take to keep Kitto alive, then you didn't read the first book.
There's a murder mystery in the mix. It's not as bad as being burned alive, but it's not a good way to die. Detective Lucy Tate from the first book calls in the Grey Detective Agency. Merry, Rhys, and Frost go to the scene. Merry is affected more than her guards/lovers, but she's never seen this many corpses at once. I'm just as glad they don't want to tell her how much worse slaughters they've seen.
Remember Lieutenant Peterson from chapter 6 of A Kiss of Shadows? He's back in chapter 22 and being a pain. Merry is being a bit hard on herself in claiming that Peterson was one of the officers she'd used to prove that the lust spell worked. She touched Detective Alvera with his permission. Still under the spell herself, she touched Officer Riley without his permission after Alvera was torn from her. Peterson, however, grabbed her spell-covered bare arms all on his own when he tried to keep Merry from touching anyone else.
It was his and his cops' own fault for not believing her, but Peterson has turned completely against Merry. He also refuses to believe that she didn't commit the gruesome murder that was meant to include the princess herself. If you remember the higher-ups in The X-Files and the human authorities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you can guess how he feels about any magical explanations.
One of the things I like about this series is that it introduces me to types of fey or names for them that I hadn't known before, such as the Gabriel Ratchets. They're mentioned in chapter 18. Chapter 20 is where we find out about Doyle's aunts, what one of his grandmothers was, and what the grandfather who mated with her was. We even find out why the Queen of Air and Darkness never had sex with him.
Merry's Aunt Andais's chief torturer, Ezekial, gets his name spelled 'Ezekiel' in this book. I wonder which spelling will stick.
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LibraryThing member Capnrandm
Upon re-read, there was a bit more page flipping than book one. Merry has started to "school the boys" on how to be a good person, and that's always a bit of a yawn. Also, the police work in this book is a bit out of place. Did enjoy everyone's powers coming on line.
LibraryThing member NCDonnas
The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know
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whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series. Show Less
LibraryThing member ahappybooker
The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know
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whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series. Show Less
LibraryThing member ahappybooker
The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know
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whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series. Show Less
LibraryThing member dearheart
Merry is back working for the Grey Detective Agency in L.A. along with some of her guards. Her one bedroom apartment is too small for the five guards plus Kitto, the small snake goblin she’s taken on for six months in order to have the goblins as allies. It’s difficult to find a place they can
Maeve Reed, a prominent Hollywood actress for fifty years and a former goddess of the Seelie Court, wants a favor from Merry, which she’ll only agree to if Maeve will share the secret to why she was banished, and the reason could rock the balance of power.
Politics and the mystery of what has been unleashed by the sidhe and how to stop it take up the majority of this second story. Merry has to negotiate with the demi-fey, a number of members from the Seelie Court as well as her aunt. Each of the different courts and types of fae has their own cultures and rules.
And because she’s trying to get pregnant and keep all of the guards—who’d been forced to be celibate under their queen—happy, sex is a common activity. Sex with Doyle for the first time is especially eventful.
Action, humor, mystery, politics and sex round out this story that fit a number of genres. We learn more about the guards and the world of the fae. A great job at character and world building.
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afford for so many people.Maeve Reed, a prominent Hollywood actress for fifty years and a former goddess of the Seelie Court, wants a favor from Merry, which she’ll only agree to if Maeve will share the secret to why she was banished, and the reason could rock the balance of power.
Politics and the mystery of what has been unleashed by the sidhe and how to stop it take up the majority of this second story. Merry has to negotiate with the demi-fey, a number of members from the Seelie Court as well as her aunt. Each of the different courts and types of fae has their own cultures and rules.
And because she’s trying to get pregnant and keep all of the guards—who’d been forced to be celibate under their queen—happy, sex is a common activity. Sex with Doyle for the first time is especially eventful.
Action, humor, mystery, politics and sex round out this story that fit a number of genres. We learn more about the guards and the world of the fae. A great job at character and world building.
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LibraryThing member Carl_Alves
Having given up on Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, I figured I would give her Fae books a try. Unfortunately, A Caress of Twilight is no better than the Anita Blake novels. Just like her vampire books, this novel is oversexed for no particular reason. The story is weak and after about a dozen
In this novel, Faerie princess Meredith Gentry, who has left the land of the Fae, and is our mortal world, is trying to give birth to a child and take her claim to the Unseelie throne. An exiled goddess with a dark secret is Meredith’s latest client. So much of the novel was about Faerie politics and what goes on in the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, and very little of it was interesting. This was a forgettable novel that I would recommend skipping.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
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chapters, it was no longer capable of holding my interest.In this novel, Faerie princess Meredith Gentry, who has left the land of the Fae, and is our mortal world, is trying to give birth to a child and take her claim to the Unseelie throne. An exiled goddess with a dark secret is Meredith’s latest client. So much of the novel was about Faerie politics and what goes on in the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, and very little of it was interesting. This was a forgettable novel that I would recommend skipping.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
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LibraryThing member grapeapril75
It has been a little while since I read this book but here is what I recall...
I had a love hate relationship with this series. It was confused about if it wanted to be mainstream or erotic. Mostly Merry had loads of sex and the story fell to the wayside.
I quit before I finished the whole series.
I had a love hate relationship with this series. It was confused about if it wanted to be mainstream or erotic. Mostly Merry had loads of sex and the story fell to the wayside.
I quit before I finished the whole series.
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LibraryThing member Carol420
In her role as supernatural detective, Merry and her band of guards and lovers are faced with investigating mysterious mass deaths in California, despite resistance and prejudice from local authorities. In her role as would-be queen to the sidhe, she continues to investigate her convoluted and
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perilous political position, to nurture alliances, to consolidate her power base, and above all to try to get pregnant (which is, after all, the only way to actually become Queen and thus survive). I really like the Anita Blake series. I read this series because...well, it was there and there was no Anita Blakes while these were being written. I didn't dislike the series, I just became werry of the character of Merry. Okay - she was a fae Anita Blake. Show Less
LibraryThing member SuzReads
Great book! It's book #2 in the Meredith Gentry series and we learn more about her and her abilities. I like the erotic antics, the intrigue between characters, and not being able to predict the story. I would definitely recommend this and am looking forward to #3!
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Original publication date
2002-03-26
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368 p.; 8.08 inches
ISBN
0345478169 / 9780345478160