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Jun 28, 2011

The Holy Terror rated it:

I'm not really sure why I read this series anymore. The actual mystery of the novel is shoved aside for the better part of the book to make way for arguing, sex, and pissing contests. And if it's not that, then the rest of the book is made up of hair and eye color descriptions for all the various characters. Hamilton's fascination with hair down to the ankles and with the varying heights of the characters is mind-boggling. She seems to spend more time thinking up these various combinations than More...

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Feb 02, 2011

Mistress ~ ♠ Mistral's Kiss ♠ ~ rated it:

The plot was somewhat tighter (whodunit wise only) and It was fun to see some of the characters from book 1 again. There were some vaguely touched upon interesting developments concerning: the human soldiers she saved last book, the gangs home away from home, and in Merry's demeanor. But this still is LKH we're talkin' bout so there's still less editing than healthy, more sex (with random side characters) than necessary, and abounding wtfery. How she can spend pages upon pages sexin' the goblin More...

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Mar 11, 2010

Ingrid rated it:

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Dec 09, 2009

FlibBityFLooB rated it:

Merry and her Muppet multi-color haired men are back, but definitely not for the better. This book didn't do much for me. I have enjoyed the series, but one of the biggest problems has been when the plot drags. This particular book dragged for me. The Queen of the Unseelie Court did not make an appearance in this book, and she is one of the more interesting plot pieces in the series.

As usual, Ms. Hamilton could use a better editor. The redundancy of the text kills me. This ne More...

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Feb 20, 2011

Darth rated it:

Ahh...

Princess Meredith's Magical Vagina tour rolls on...
Okay we get it - sex is magic - and your girl the princess has such a magical hoo-haw as to invoke all the lost treasures of Faerun. Good for her.
This will be the last Meredith Gentry book I read.

I wasnt offended by the rampant sex, I expect that. I wasnt shocked by the rough and tumble (accent on ROUGH) aspect of some of the sex. Hell, I like some of that my self.

I just had a problem with More...

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Feb 24, 2011

Sally rated it:

I am adoring this series. The political intrigue, the inclusiveness, the power games and there's real science fiction in it; oh, and the lovely men folk. It's a shame this is the last book so far, I'll just have to be patient from now on.

Given that I'm currently also reading "The Prince" and the dictatorships in the Middle East are changing shape so rapidly the parallels are fascinating in the series overall as well.

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Dec 30, 2009

D. Alexx rated it:

Merry Gentry Book 8 By Laurell K Hamilton

Over all I like the book.

What I Liked:
I Liked the P. I. Story about the murders of the Demi Fey. I Liked the passion that Merry Enjoys with her Men(for the most part).I love the fact that Merry's men have long hair. I find that really sexy in a romantic hero of the paranormal sort.

please see the rest and the dueling review between Jasmine and I at

http://www.romanceinthebackseat.com

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Jan 29, 2011

I ♥ Bookie Nookie rated it:

I really can't figure out the draw to this series. I have read them all and I feel that they are all just kind of mediocre. In hind sight, I might have rated them a little higher than they really deserved--but I will leave the ratings alone.

I was pretty sure I knew who the killer was as soon as the character made his/her entrance in the book. Little imagination there Hamilton...

What was this book about anyway? I felt that it was pretty anti-climatic. The only reas More...

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Aug 04, 2011

Helga added it

I continued to read Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series after abandoning the Anita Blake series several years ago, because it tended to have more plot and less sex (or at least more plot-based sex), and I liked the characters. I guess I still like the characters, but Divine Misdemeanors felt pretty much like a placeholder book after the climactic events of Swallowing Darkness. Merry is back in the human world, pregnant with twins (by six fathers), having turned down rulership of the Unseel More...

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Dec 07, 2011

Emma rated it:

I've read all of LKH's Merry Gentry books. This is the last one she wrote. She used to write one every year. Merry Gentry is a softer, more submissive Anita Blake. She's more feminine. Princess Merry Nic Essus (Merry Gentry) works for Grey and Hart Detective Agency. She's mostly Sidhe (Faerie/elf/brownie) and is a royal in the court. In "Divine Misdemeanors," Merry Gentry and her entourage try to solve the serial killings of fey. She's a Princess, but a private detective too. More...

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Oct 30, 2011

Crystie rated it:

This one was better than some of the previous books. The mystery helped - having a plot always helps! I feel like the beginning was strong and the ending was good, but that the middle was a bit slow. I believe this is the last book in the series, but if so I feel underwhelmed by the "completion." I would have liked a few things tied up less loosely.

Will Merry ever find out if she is still mortal? Did the magic change anything? Will she ever again wear a crown of faerie, More...

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Jun 22, 2011

Mandy rated it:

After the previous 2 books in this series - which I only read because I checked them out free at the library - I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book. Hamilton had become increasingly dull, repititious, and plotless. I was also really sick of endless pages of sex. Yet, as a scholar of Celtic myth, I sort of couldn't resist to see where Hamilton would take the myth line next. I must admit that she has *some* good scholarship in her presentation of mythological characters.

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May 09, 2011

Denna rated it:

I have been a little leery of purchasing novels by Laurell K Hamilton in the last few years because they had evolved from the awesome fantasy stories that I loved into almost straight porn without much of a storyline to go with it. Personally I love exciting sex in a romance novel, but I don’t want to become bored by it when that’s all there is. This novel held my attention like Hamilton used to do years ago. I had a hard time getting any of my own work done because I couldn’t wait to get in More...

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Apr 17, 2011

ALPHAreader rated it:

This is the 8th book in Laurell K Hamilton’s ‘Merry Gentry’ series.

Ever since ‘Narcissus in Chains’ (Anita Blake #10) I have preferred Hamilton’s ‘Merry’ books to ‘Anita’. At least in the ‘Merry’ books all the erotica, orgies, BDSM etc is legitimized by Merry and her men being Sidhe (fey) who are a very sensual, sexual species. Plus it was essential to the storyline that Merry have as much sex with as many of her men as possible – since she was in a race to make an heir and be crowne More...

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Jan 30, 2011

Angie rated it:

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Dec 30, 2010

Karissa rated it:

This is book 8 in the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell Hamilton. It was an okay book, about par for the course in this series. It was entertaining, but had some plot problems and some pacing problems.

This book takes up where the last book left off. Merry and crew have chosen to move back to LA. After choosing to save Frost instead of become the King and Queen of the Unseelie court, Merry and Doyle (along with Merry's male harem) are in exile from fairy. They are working on setting u More...

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Nov 17, 2010

Cat Russell rated it:

Well, this crazy Gentry roller coaster ride has finally come to an end. It has been interesting to say the least. Thankfully, the past three books have had a little more action and a little less talking each other to death. I was the most disappointed about Mistral. I loved him when he first appeared, then he was taken away, and I was excited when he returned again as one of the fathers of Merry's babies. So, what happened?!? He was just pushed aside. That's one of the biggest problems with th More...

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Oct 28, 2010

Chibineko rated it:

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Aug 31, 2010

Robby rated it:

A very short, yet enjoyable chapter of the Merry Gentry series.

The book finds Merry back in LA pregnant and back in the private eye game. The book isn't nearly as good as the previous ones. I miss the violence and political intrigue of the Seelie and Unseelie courts. The search for a serial killer targeting the demi-fey is interesting, but but lacks the nail biting suspense I've come to expect when Merry doesn't stop to screw one of her guys.

There are some interesting d More...

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Jun 01, 2010

Selena rated it:

I'm not going to say much about this book cause there was nothing good about it. I did not rush out to buy it on the release date and instead had to bring myself to read it cause I was scared to. I was honestly hoping that the author saved the series in this book but was sorely disappointed.

This author (Laurell Hamilton) and her books is the reason I actually joined Goodreads, cause I was tired of buying her books and being disappointed. In my opinion this authors writing has been goin More...

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Mar 06, 2010

Marian rated it:

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Jan 27, 2010

Cate rated it:

Meredith Gentry is back in LA working as a private detective, living with an unspecified number of exiles from the Unseelie court, and pregnant with twins. Someone is killing demi-fey--the small winged creatures humans think of when they think of "fairies"--and arranging the corpses to copy children's book illustrations.

Much of this book is perfunctory--less a novel and more a short story padded out with recaps of previous books in the series and re-introductions of the More...

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Jan 22, 2010

Liz B rated it:

This is probably my least favorite of the Merry Gentry novels so far, and my distaste is almost entirely due to what I see as some very awkward editing. I'm not talking about copyediting so much (there are sometimes scads of errors in possessive nouns in Hamilton's books), although at one point "destroy" showed up as "distroy" (how does that *happen*??)--it was more about the several times that I had to go back and re-read because something didn't quite make sense. There was More...

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Jan 09, 2010

Amanda rated it:

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Jan 05, 2010

Leeanna rated it:

Meredith Gentry #8: Divine Misdemeanors, by Laurell K. Hamilton

I had high hopes at the start of this Merry book - she's back in Los Angeles, back at the Grey Detective Agency, even back on a crime scene. Someone in the city is murdering the demi-fey and posing their bodies after pictures in children's books, and the police want her help before any more fey die.

But that promise quickly degenerates with too much recap of previous events, multiple sex scenes, and a weak end More...

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Dec 20, 2009

Anita rated it:

This is book 8 of Laurell K. Hamilton's popular urban fantasy fairy series, Meredith Gentry. I'm a huge fan of this author, and I love everything she writes, so yes, this review is bias. If you don't like explicit sex scenes in books, then LKH's books are not for you. This book takes place in L.A. over the course of a couple weeks in the middle of Meredith's first trimester of her pregnancy. She's working for the Gray Detective Agency again, helping to support the 100 or so fairies that came bac More...

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Dec 14, 2009

Kelly rated it:

I was a bit leery when I cracked this open to read it. I was disappointed in the last Anita Blake book and I was concerned that I would be disappointed in this latest installment of Merry Gentry. I was not disappointed. The story moved the plot along considerably and it has a lot more about some of the main "heroes" backgrounds to give more insight into their characters. I really enjoyed this aspect of the book. Learning more about where they came from enhances and gives us reason More...

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Dec 13, 2009

Crystal rated it:

The murder mystery, I think, should've received more attention, although the 'themes' linking the victims together were interesting. The introduction of the Fairy Godmother and Fear Dearg had potential, but was similarly allowed to drift. As always, I did enjoy the personal interaction between all the fey; however, this book mostly seemed like one large interlude between the bloody action of the last and...what? Merry will no doubt be sucked back into the court life as both her aunt and uncle sp More...

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Dec 11, 2009

marlene rated it:

This book was lacking plot more than any other I have seen form LKH. We started out with a good mystery story but it quickly dissolved into a bunch of random mini dramas with her harem. Not even original drama at that. More than a few times throughout this book i recognized scenes and descriptions almost word for word form previous books. Not just a writing style, but almost a copy and paste job.

There were three pages describing the licking of icing off a cupcake. Three page More...

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Dec 09, 2009

Siuane rated it:

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