Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry, Book 5) |
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345443618
ISBN: 0345443616
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-12-30
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Studio: Ballantine Books
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I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation.
My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie–trapped here with some of the realm’s most beautiful men to serve as my bodyguards . . . and my lovers. For I am compelled to conceive a child: an heir to succeed me on the throne. Yet after months of amazing sex with my consorts, there is still no baby. And no baby means no throne. The only certainty is death at the hands of my cousin Cel, or his followers, if I fail to conceive.
Now Mistral, Queen Andais’s new captain of the guard, has come to my bed–defying her and risking her terrible wrath in doing so. But even she will hesitate to punish him in jealous rage, because our joining has reawakened old magic, mystical power so ancient that no one stands against it and survives. Not even my strongest and most favored: my Darkness and my Killing Frost. Not even Mistral himself, my Storm Lord. But because Mistral has helped to bring this magic forth, he may live another day.
If I can reclaim control of the fey power that once was, there may be hope for me and my reign in faerie. I might yet quell the dark schemes and subterfuges surrounding me. Though shadows of obsession and conspiracy gather, I may survive.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!
Comment: I BOUGHT THE AUDIO VERSION OF THIS BOOK IN HOPES OF KEEPING MYSELF AWAKE DURING A LONG ROAD TRIP. THE GOOD NEWS, THE BOOK DID KEEP ME UP BY HAVING ME WONDER WHEN THE PLOT TO THE STORY WAS GOING TO TAKE, WHY WERE THE SEX SCENES SO HORRIBLE, AND WAS THIS WRITER POSSIBLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE WHEN SHE WROTE THIS BOOK. THE BAD NEWS, I WAS EXTREMELY UPSET THAT I WASTED MY MONEY ON THIS BOOK AND DID NOT HAVE THE PATIENCE TO FINISH THE BOOK. THE MORAL OF THIS STORY, DO NOT BUY, CHECK OUT, OR BORROW THIS BOOK.
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Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G!!!
Comment: Like one of LKH's other books (Danse Macabre), I tried several times to read this book all of the way through. I kept picking it up & putting it down, then trying to read it again later with more determination. I just couldn't do it because the plot just wasn't there.
This book picks up at the end of the previous book (the incredibly slow moving Stroke of Midnight), with Merry & her men trying to get out of the sithern. Still. It also takes place pretty much over one day, which gets kind of old. There's tons of sex scenes, all of which bog down the book & drag the already stale plotline to death. It pretty much takes almost forever for any real events to happen, and when a halfway interesting plot point (Sholto & the Wild Hunt) shows up the reader pretty much doesn't care.
I know that LKH can write better than this. I originally loved the Merry Gentry series when it first came out, but now the books seem to be less about court intrigue & the race to the crown, and more about how many men Merry can accumulate & how many awkwardly written sex scenes can be crammed into one book. Most readers will benefit more by just skipping this book entirely (you won't miss much) & moving onto the next book, which sums up the entire plotline of this book in a few paragraphs.
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Summary: Money hungry #$*&#$
Comment: Ok, this book just confirms it for me, LKH is a money hungry #$#$%!. She's no longer concerned with finishing this damn storyline. As long as people are shelling out $$ she doesn't seem to care that her books are not even worth a #$%# anymore. AND another thing, stop with Merry being tight. I'm sorry, she stopped being tight after the first book. I mean come on, I know it's fiction but the woman just had back to back sex with 2 men about what an hour before Sholto and I'm suppose to believe that she's so tight.... Pulleezee.. I am soooo happy I only spent $3 for the hardcover (used book) or I would have been really pissed. I mean, this book is sooo tiny and to add insult to injury, half of the book is about 1 sex scene, ONE FREAKING SEX SCENE. COME ON.
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Summary: The Sholto scene was a bit of a cop out
Comment: Like many reviewers, I think this book was too short and filled with way too much sex and not enough plot. The reason I actually read this far in the series is that right from the start, I've been fascinated by the character of Sholto. He was a character with terrible beauty and really seemed to break the mold of the other guards. And I'll admit, I was incredibly curious to see what a full sex scene would be like with him given all his "extras".
So, for me, the most disappointing part of this book was that when Merry finally does get around to having sex with him, it's only after all of his tentacles have been completely amputated. LKH seems to pride herself on "edgy" books, but I really feel like it was a cop out to mutilate the character of Sholto just long enough for Merry to have sex with him (because of course he is magically restored right after the sex is done).
For me, the only interesting part of this book was the Wild Hunt at the end, where we finally get a reprieve from boring sex scenes and get to see some action.
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Summary: what plot?
Comment: Ok. I had heard she was a great writer, and I started with this book. At the end I was still trying to figure out the storyline. Too much bizarre sex, and no real live plot. I don't recommend this one. Maybe her other books are better. This one left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
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