Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton

...Lick of Frost (2007) Swallowing Darkness (2008) Divine Misdemeanours (Dec 2009) Meredith NicEssus is a faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable. She changes her name to "Meredith Gentry" to hide from her family and her past while hiding out in Los Angeles, California as a private investigator at Grey's Detective Agency. You might think that this next bit ...
...that this book is called Swallowing Darkness, you might get a slight idea of what is waiting for you should you choose to read this novel!! Astonishingly it takes Laurell 150 pages to describe her first sex scene and though Meredith starts (how can I put this!!) doing what's required to bring about the title of the novel, it never actually happens!! As the couple are interrupted by Sholto (King of the Sluagh) offering one of his tentacles to( mm ...

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Review of Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton

Summary: reasonably enjoyable if there is nothing better, lively, trashy fantasy "Swallowing Darkness" is the seventh Meredith Gentry novel and the first one I read. Despite that I had no problems at all in following the plot - even though there isn't that much obvious exposition in the novel. Meredith NicEssus is a faerie princess in a slightly alternative world (i.e. US) where faeries are known by the humans - a treaty allowed them to settle in ...
...don't engage in war or make humans worship them. The faerie courts are obsessed by purity of blood and even more so by purity of looks and Meredith, who is mortal, curvy and has not just human but also lesser fey ancestors, flees the Faerie and starts working as a private investigator in the human world. But her disguise ends when Meredith investigates a man using magic against humans. Her aunt, the Queen of Unseelie Court of Air and Darkness sets ...

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Review of Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton

The Author Laurell K Hamilton is a bestselling author and has been on the New York bestselling author with this book and previous others. She lives in St Louis, Missouri with her daughter and husband Jon. She writes two major series, the first is the Anita Blake series and the second which this book is from is the Merry Gentry series. On the Cover I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at last I am with ...
...uncle, Taranis, the King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father. He abducted me, betrayed and defiled me, and now he brands my guards as a threat to my unborn children. Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my Aunt's throne - and dangerously ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race to reign over the unseelie court. Indeed, not all in faerie are rejoicing in my condition. Conspirators throughout the realm plot against me ...

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