A Shiver of Light
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"Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of both courts of faerie are coming to court Merry and her men, at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have babies of their own. Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, is a more dangerous problem. He tried to seduce Merry and, failing that, raped her. He's using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. And though Merry knows she was already pregnant when he took her, she can't prove it. To save herself and her babies from Taranis she will use the most dangerous powers in all of faerie: a god of death, a warrior known as the Darkness, the Killing Frost, and a king of nightmares. They are her lovers, and her dearest loves, and they will face down the might of the high courts of faerie--while trying to keep the war from spreading to innocent humans in Los Angeles, who are in danger of becoming collateral damage"--
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9 primary books#9 in Merry Gentry
Merry Gentry is a 9-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2000 with contributions by Laurell K. Hamilton.
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My actual rating? 0 stars. This book was absolutely pathetic. Between Hamilton squashing in as much backstory garbage as she could into the dislogue and the utter lack of plot, I'm left to wonder what the hell I just read. Not to mention she kills off a main character about 5 pages after granting them a new ability. What the hell is the point? I'm so disgusted with Hamilton as an author. What happened to her intense characters? Oh and now the fae can suddenly lie too! Hamilton broke the rules of her own world! This book was nothing but crap.
Better story than before. I think with the birth of the babies there is not as much politics, which I'm not fond of, and more family relationships. I'll have to re-read the last section to get who the father's all are though.
What I really enjoy about the Merry Gentry series is the creative, astonishing acts that happen around Merry. The mystery can always go, but this latest addition had little mystery at all. We were trapped in stasis. Merry is expecting triplets and confined to little movement and action. The entire metaphor represents the book as a whole. If felt as if Hamilton was trying to get a handle on her characters again, resummarizing their appearances and meaning to one another again and again and not presenting any new action. Although the ending appeared to be a conclusion, there was nothing conclusive about it–just what we had last book- Merry finally knocked up. This series is very liberal sexually and you would think this series wouldn't end like Twilight where babies make everything suddenly solved. I hope we get a book #10 where Hamilton doesn't do another throw a away just to appease fans that loved the series.
