Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't know if you know about the writer Laurell K. Hamilton she is a US writer best-known for her series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Merry Gentry is the title character of a new fantasy series There are eight books in the series, that is eight too many!! A Kiss of Shadows (2000) A Caress of Twilight (2002) Seduced by Moonlight (2004) A Stroke of Midnight (2005) Mistral's Kiss (2006) A 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 ... more

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 the US three hundred years on the condition that they don't engage in war or make humans worship them. The faerie courts are obsessed by purity of ... more

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 child - twins, fathered by my royal guard... Yet my uncle, Taranis, the King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father. He abducted me ... more