Seduced By Moonlight
(Merry Gentry 3)
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4.5 • 42 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Full of sensuality and the all-consuming anticipation of latent powers unleashed, Laurell K. Hamilton’s world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls is unveiled in all of its supreme magnificence and its treacherous deceits . . .
Merry Gentry has heard the whispers of her guard. They fear her even as they protect her, and who can blame them? When a long missing chalice appears as if summoned from her dreams, she awakens a magic that has slumbered within her guards for thousands of years. What once stripped their powers is now restoring them.
At the same time, Merry’s aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, has shifted her focus from her usual sadistic hobbies to an unwavering obsession with her niece. While Merry spends each night with her immortal guards, no heir has come from their decadent pleasures. And still her power is surging like never before.
And there are those who loathe her for it. Some in the Unseelie Court would not have it weakened further by a half-mortal queen. Merry’s enemies grow in number every day. But they do not know what she is capable of. And nor, for that matter, does she . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Considering all the complications, sexual and otherwise, that Merry Gentry, heir to the faerie throne, endured in A Kiss of Shadows (2000) and A Caress of Shadows (2002), it's no surprise to find the start of Hamilton's third book in her erotic fantasy series weighed down by attempts to conversationally recap earlier convolutions. Even readers of the first two books might have problems sorting out exactly why Merry is messing with the goblin king via magic mirror. Though the author maintains interest through such devices as an imaginative sex scene involving Merry, two of her sidhe studs and a doll-sized, winged, blood-sucking demi-fey, it takes a milieu switch from L.A. to St. Louis and the Unseelie court for the plot to take off and become a page turner. Merry confronts faerie politics that make Machiavelli look like a rookie, while her aunt's sadistic madness leads to what must rank as one of the bloodier scenes of fictional slaughter. Since Merry's previous role as a private eye has almost completely disappeared, nefarious deeds require magic to solve rather than detection. Hamilton's trademark mix of the personal and emotional along with the sexual will as usual delight her fans. Add yet another tour de force ending, a new final total of 16 lustful sidhe male immortals with whom to couple (or triple or...), and a fair future is assured for Merry for at least another few books. FYI:Hamilton is also the author of the bestselling Anita Blake vampire series (Cerulean Sins, etc.).
