character that turns up (especially the fey males) is simply very, very boring.
The language doesn't exactly soar either, with a plodding, unbelievably wooden dialogue, frequent repetitions that should have been edited out, a surfeit of unnecessary adjectives and and occasional but very grating clash of modes (as a single example: "my mother's emotional ambivalence towards me" doesn't fit with high epic style of the sequence in which it's included, but there are many others).
Still, "Swallowing Darkness", while by no means the best in its sub-genre, is not entirely dreadful either. I wasn't tempted to seek out previous books from the series nor other novels by LaurellK. Hamilton (she also authored a long series about Anita Blake, the vampire hunter), but I read this one in two days while recovering from a 'flu and it was fun.
As a fantasy ...
Advantages: Helps fillmy recycle bin Disadvantages: Sheer rubbish
I don't know if you know about the writer LaurellK. 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 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.
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Product details
EAN
9780755352531
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Title
Skin Trade
Author
Laurell K. Hamilton
Release Date
06-03-13
ISBN
075535253X
Manufacturer's product description
The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita BlakeOnce you tell someone certain things, like, say, you got mailed a human head in a box, they tend to think you're crazy.
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Finally, after two books, Hamilton reinfuses the series with some of the horror and suspense that got me hooked in the first place, while keeping up the emotional tug of the ongoing storylines...
Eight books in and you could come to this one cold - but there's more to enjoy of you've read the others. (*)
