About this title: From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "A Lick of Frost" comes the thrilling new Meredith Gentry novel--one that is surely her most eagerly awaited yet.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 11/4/2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Good in good dust jacket. GOOD Ex Library book with usual stickers/stamps/marks. Fast ship! Buy with confidence--satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780345495945ISBN:0345495942
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780345495945ISBN:0345495942
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 416 p. Meredith Gentry Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780345495945ISBN:0345495942
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 416 p. Meredith Gentry Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Very Good-See Description in Very Good-See Description jacket. Hardcover Very good condition. Slight wear. jacket has some scuffs and some superficial scratches. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a crimp at the upper spine edge, now protected in mylar. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780739328088ISBN:0739328085
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780739328088ISBN:0739328085
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Pages bright and clean; very good hardcover binding. Wear to jacket edges. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 365 p. Meredith Gentry Novels (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover, Condition is Near Fine/In Near Fine DJ, ( Near Pristine) Mild Wear to book and DJ. Gift Quality. Book pages clean. No markings in book. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is bright and clean. ISBN 0345495934 Meredith Gentry book 7. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780553819199ISBN:0553819194
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 528 pages. Merry gentry is not your average private investigator. half human, half faerie, she's caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life, but the lives of those she desires and holds dear. her very existence and her rightful place on the throne of faerie have long depended on her producing an heir-and now she is pregnant. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780345495938ISBN:0345495934
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 365 p. Meredith Gentry Novels (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
"This was so not what I thought was going to happen to Merry and I have mixed feelings as to whether or not I like it.
On the one hand, I'm really glad she didn't have to lose any of her men because I would have missed reading about them.
But on the other hand it was just too unreal, even for the world of Faery. It would have been hard to say good bye to all but one of her guards in the sense of seeing them as Merry's lover, but you've just spent the last 6 books trying to figure out who is going to end up as her king. And it's pretty clear who she wanted to keep for her king. I guess, I kind of wanted to see her have to deal with finding out who the father of her baby is, and come to terms with the fact that that person is now her king. Merry is such a strong person that you know she could have done it, but instead LKH decides all her men are the fathers. Half fathered one twin and half fathered the other. The only thing I can say is that I'm interested to see where LKH will go with this and how it will work having six kings.
The only truly disappointing part of the book was the after math of Taranis kidnapping Merry in the last book. I thought we were going to get to see Taranis lose his thrown and be put in jail, but all we got was to hear that they it had been dealt with. Disappointing but not a deal breaker."
"Well, I'll give it two stars instead of one since she managed to actually have plot and not just orgies this time around. But it was very frantic, hodge-podge plot rather than enjoyable plot. It was OMG SO MUCH MAGIXZ kind of plot and of course, a bazillion amazing, never-before-known-possible things happened.
The book ended in a quick, couple paragraph summery (a la Anita Blake style) and made it sound like the series was over and done with. It could have easily been a final book. Supposedly though it's not (I looked to see if it was because it sounds THAT final) which leads me to think remaining books will be even LESS enjoyable since it's all done and wrapped up here. (Like a party that was fun in the beginning but now you wish everyone would just go home already.)
I haven't bought a LKH book in years and years (I got this from the library) and if you want to read a Merry novel that ends on a complete closure, check it out from the library and be done with the series."
"So here's the thing. I tend to cut the Merry Gentry books a little more slack than I do the Anita Blake books, possibly because the Merry books never pretended to be anything other than what they are. So while the power-ups and addition of new men would bother me in Anita-verse, I tend to roll with it in Merry-verse.
And yes, she does add new men, even though she is finally pregnant and should have narrowed her man-harem down the the six (yes, six) fathers. However! Sex is kept to a minimum, and there is actual plot and intrigue and a battle. Of course, Merry takes a break in the middle of the battle to go have a goblin threesome, but if she didn't do that, it just wouldn't be LKH, amirite?
All the typical LKH flaws are there, don't get me wrong. There are repetitive descriptions, bishonen faeries with hair swirling around their ankles, the Goddess giving Merry powers for no good reason, and Merry being utterly beloved by the sithens and getting crowns all over the place. But Merry does make choices (crown of Unseelie court or Frost? I'll let you guess), and we do finally get some resolution on crazy ass Cel and what Andais' game really was.
In fact- this would have been a good point to end the series, and indeed the last chapter has a epilogue feel to it. But I've heard through the grapevine that there will be more Merry books. Ah, well. I'm curious to see the babies at least. Will one have Doyle's dark skin? Galen's green, shorter (gasp!) hair? Sholto's tentacles? Stay tuned, I guess."
"I have enjoyed reading Laurell's Merry Gentry series and looked forward to this book being published. I enjoyed reading the further adventures of Merry Gentry and her merry band of men. It was nice to finally get some resolution for Cel and the Killing Frost. I enjoyed this novel very much and can't wait for the next installment from Laurell. I encourage you, if you are interested in Fairyland and it's denizens, to give this series a read."
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