This is faerie porn with some plot.The porn gets rather repetitive, and the things that aren't should squick me, but because of the internet and rule 34, I am not. I mean it didn't get me hot, but I wasn't shocked. The sex scenes were so purple prose they were ultraviolet.It felt like a lot more plo...
Upon re-read, I feel like the Gentry series holds up better than the later Anita books. Hamilton's world building is a lot of fun, and as so many characters and concepts are being created there's a lot of action to leaven the "pedantic leading lady" issue.
This was a little too episodic -- I loved the world-building, but I wish this first of the series had its own distinct plot arc. It felt like it was all just one giant set-up.That said, if I'd read this as a teenager, it would have been Love. So I suppose I just came to it ten years too late. Such a...
3.5 stars Very different, and better, than I expected. I'm not always sure whether it is a compliment or not to say that a book is very long. It was well written and had many interesting characters and mythology, but there was almost too much plot at times. It felt like it could have been broken...
Synopsis: A Kiss of Shadows introduces Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a faerie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. Merry, who's part sidhe (elvish), part brownie, and part human, never really fit in. She's short, not skilled in offensive magic, and mortal becaus...
I gave this book a one star rating because it's not my cup of tea. It really isn't. Hamilton, however, has always been honest about what this series is, so I want to be fair.
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. But...
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