Althea M. (althea) reviewed on 9/11/2008 + 774 more book reviews

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Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series started out as a story about a half-Sidhe paranormal detective who happened to have a lot of sex. It's become a story about Sidhe who have a lot of sex, and not much else. For the first half of this book, not much happens except a lot of sex. And beautiful elf men standing around looking sexy when they don't happen to be actively having sex.

The very unfortunate thing is that all this sex is aimed at getting Merry pregnant so that she can inherit the throne and become queen. It's like Hamilton was afraid that she couldn't have her character simply enjoy having a lot of sex with a lot of people just 'cause.... it needs to be for pregnancy. Blah.

In the second half of the book, things (finally) get moving a little bit past the bedroom - everyone's powers start mysteriously increasing, and there's an assassination attempt on Merry that may come from an unpredicted source...
which is basically an excuse for a lot of violence, sadism and blood fetishism, and, of course, more sex.

So, if you're interested in reading about pretty elves (and some nasty goblins) and sex (and violence), this book is for you. If you demand a tightly structured plot that actually progresses - it's not.

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