I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among me who whisper I am more. They fear me even ...
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Feb 06, 2009
Barky
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It's official. My love affair with Laurell K. Hamilton is at an end. I should send her flowers and tell her how nice the journey was. We’re going different places, you and I, Ms. Hamilton – we need to part ways, literally.
Both of Laurell K. Hamilton's series have devolved into orgies – all sex, no plot. In her most recent Anita Blake release there was no time for other things to happen, because everyone was too busy getting laid – Anita more than anyone. Things aren’t much differ More...
Both of Laurell K. Hamilton's series have devolved into orgies – all sex, no plot. In her most recent Anita Blake release there was no time for other things to happen, because everyone was too busy getting laid – Anita more than anyone. Things aren’t much differ More...
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Jan 23, 2009
Lisa
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Well - I am not actually sure why I keep reading these books. I am a huge fan of the Anita Blake character... yes, sometimes the sex is a bit much, but I enjoy the characters and am looking forward to each new book. I like the suspense, the plot development, the relationships and the fear (I am a big chicken).
I finally decided to read the Meredith Gentry books. I am actually listening to them, unabridged of course. The narrator is pretty good. The only complaint I have for her i More...
I finally decided to read the Meredith Gentry books. I am actually listening to them, unabridged of course. The narrator is pretty good. The only complaint I have for her i More...
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Dec 04, 2011
Kathryn
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I don't know if there's much I can say in this review that I haven't said in the other three reviews. Slow pace blah blah blah, obsession with descriptions of clothing blah blah blah, Mary-Sue who's passionately hated by half the characters and passionately desired by the other half (if someone's indifferent then they're not featured in this book), and did I mention the slow pace? This one didn't even get two days of real time; apparently now the magical dwelling place of the fairie host is movi
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Sep 20, 2010
Jeri
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This one takes place the day after the last book, and covers less than one full day in the life of our heroine. During this period, she investigates a murder, survives several attacks (both physical and political), has amazing and magical (literally) sex with several new partners, and gains and shares new magical powers. In other words, a typical day.
I both loved this one, and was disappointed in it. I loved it because I love spending more time with Merry & Co. (all those gorgeous More...
I both loved this one, and was disappointed in it. I loved it because I love spending more time with Merry & Co. (all those gorgeous More...
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Dec 17, 2009
Leeanna
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Meredith Gentry #4: A Stroke of Midnight, by Laurell K. Hamilton
I just finished "A Stroke of Midnight," the fourth book in the Merry Gentry series. I'm still not sure what I read. I feel like I need a roadmap with step-by-step directions to keep up with all the new sidhe figures introduced, and their "adventures" with Merry.
There's an attempt at a plot in this novel, when a fey and a human reporter are found murdered in the sithen after a press confer More...
I just finished "A Stroke of Midnight," the fourth book in the Merry Gentry series. I'm still not sure what I read. I feel like I need a roadmap with step-by-step directions to keep up with all the new sidhe figures introduced, and their "adventures" with Merry.
There's an attempt at a plot in this novel, when a fey and a human reporter are found murdered in the sithen after a press confer More...
May 25, 2011
❀ Sharon ❀
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I don't even know how to review this! Except for at the beginning, this book was non-stop action....and not all sex ~ believe it or not. Although I must say, if threesomes or multiple partners bother you then don't read this series.
It is a bit overwhelming with all the new characters but still very interesting with how LKH can come up with so many different variations of types of Fae. The threesomes were a bit much but if you have read any LKH's books then its pretty much par for the More...
It is a bit overwhelming with all the new characters but still very interesting with how LKH can come up with so many different variations of types of Fae. The threesomes were a bit much but if you have read any LKH's books then its pretty much par for the More...
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Dec 04, 2011
Shannon
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I have to give this one a 3 1/2 as the sex was just a little too much in this book. It seemed as though everytime some major political issue and problems with assassination and the throne was overshadowed with Merry having "random" sex with one or two or more of her guard and allies instead of dealing with them. Ultimately we never got answers to some of the topics brought up like Sholto and his injuries or what happened to the guards who ambushed Galen or what about Peasblossom, the
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Feb 19, 2011
Tara
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Not as good as the previous ones. I can see where it is starting to decline. This series is like Twilight for grown-ups (grown-ups with reasonably strong stomachs, that is). It's strangely addictive, though on little merit. I think I read for the men - mostly Doyle, Frost, Rhys and Galen, but the others have their appeal too. The plot seems to just jump from one sexual encounter to another without anything much in between. Everything is an excuse to have sex and nothing seems to be solved withou
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Nov 01, 2010
Rebecca
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I was disappointed with this book ...What can you say about Laurell K Hamilton that hasn't already been said? Yes, "A Stroke of Midnight" is full of graphic, gratuitous sex and yes, the plot crawls along to a rather unsatisfying climax (no pun intended) there is a definite story arc here, Merry is still trying to get pregnant and her twisted cousin Cel is nearing the end of his imprisonment. Plot threads that began in earlier books are continued and expanded, and Hamilton has created
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Aug 03, 2011
Tessa
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I have no idea why i keep reading these. I think it's to break up the actually decent stuff I've been reading lately and remind myself that they are awful. Or maybe I'm just masochistic.
I have little to no idea what happened in this book, someone was killed, but mostly Merry, or princess Meredith, had a lot of badly written sex with men with bizarre and very long hair. I'm sure some other stuff happened but the entire narrative, such as it was, whizzed by with such speed that I felt like th More...
I have little to no idea what happened in this book, someone was killed, but mostly Merry, or princess Meredith, had a lot of badly written sex with men with bizarre and very long hair. I'm sure some other stuff happened but the entire narrative, such as it was, whizzed by with such speed that I felt like th More...
Jun 24, 2010
Carolyn F.
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This is the audiobook. Loved the narrator. I like it the second time going through it than the first. Although it's a 3.5 stars as it's not the best. Usually she has a summation of what happens at the end of the book, but this goes straight through to Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry, #5), which I started this am.
Merry is back at the Faery mound and is trying to solve a crime, stay one step ahead of the queen, make then men happy and try to heal as many of the guards as she can. More...
Merry is back at the Faery mound and is trying to solve a crime, stay one step ahead of the queen, make then men happy and try to heal as many of the guards as she can. More...
Sep 01, 2009
Nicole
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Or maybe I should say "mystery" since there's not a whole lot of mystery solving going on. My biggest gripe, though, is not with the plot, which I've come to accept for what it is and what it never will be (namely, well-crafted) but with Hamilton's inconsistencies and repetition.
Perhaps I've mentioned before that Hamilton really needs a better editor. Someone that will tell her that a unique turn of phrase used once is an asset to any book, but that phrase used multiple More...
Perhaps I've mentioned before that Hamilton really needs a better editor. Someone that will tell her that a unique turn of phrase used once is an asset to any book, but that phrase used multiple More...
Aug 23, 2011
LL
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I give this one 2.5 stars.
I had taken a liking to the world of Merry Gentry. The plot was okay, in that there was a mystery to solve but it felt as though the overall storyline hasn’t really progressed much. Yes, Merry was still trying to get herself pregnant, and yes, Cel was still imprisoned, and of course Merry was still under constant assassination threats. But really, the overall story hasn’t changed or advanced much from the last book.
Additionally, Merry was ha More...
I had taken a liking to the world of Merry Gentry. The plot was okay, in that there was a mystery to solve but it felt as though the overall storyline hasn’t really progressed much. Yes, Merry was still trying to get herself pregnant, and yes, Cel was still imprisoned, and of course Merry was still under constant assassination threats. But really, the overall story hasn’t changed or advanced much from the last book.
Additionally, Merry was ha More...
Jun 03, 2010
Kathleen
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So this is how I would describe a Meredith Gentry book: Merry almost gets killed, then she has sex with one or more people, something mystical and mysterious happens from aforementioned sex, followed by a long conversation about how amazing it is and how it hasn't happened in many centuries and then the whole thing repeats. It gets a bit repetitive and its really kind of sad when the sex scenes are so numerous and similar that they just get boring and you find yourself skimming through them.
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Dec 02, 2011
AstrogirlM42
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Not much more to add to my previous reviews on these books. Same old story. Merry needs to get pregnant to become queen. Sleeps with lots of male unseelie fairies. A bit of magic here and there. A murder to break up the sex....bla bla bla.
These books are all the same format. If you like one, you will like them all. I have read four now, purely because a friend dropped four of for me to read. They have been easy, amusing reads...but lack the character development and depth tha More...
These books are all the same format. If you like one, you will like them all. I have read four now, purely because a friend dropped four of for me to read. They have been easy, amusing reads...but lack the character development and depth tha More...
Apr 12, 2011
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Nov 19, 2009
MJ
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After returning to the Unseelie Courts Meredith survives not one but 2 assignations plots in 24 hours. And now she is awakening long lost Fairy magic and the court is alive and granted Meredith’s every wish. But a human report is killed and Meredith invites police into to the fairy mounds for the 1st time to solve the mystery. Now more than ever her life is in danger. Someone is trying to kill her Guard and her Aunt the Queen is acting more and more erratic. Is there something more going on o
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Feb 05, 2009
Jerry
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Feb 09, 2012
Lotty
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I am Meredith Gentry, P.II am also Princess Meredith, heir to the darkest throne faerie has to offer. The Unseelie Court infuses me with its power. My cousin Cel strives to have me killed even now from his prison cell. But not all the assassination attempts are his. Some Unseelie nobles have waited centuries for my aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, to become weak enough that she might be toppled from her throne.
The threat will drive us to allow human police into faerie for the first More...
The threat will drive us to allow human police into faerie for the first More...
Feb 08, 2012
Andreasoldier
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I used to love Laurell Hamiltonand Anita Blake, bit htings started going south with "Micah" or as I call it "Ode to a Penis." The Meredith Gentry series was, I thought, supposed to be were all the sex came out, but like a bad veneral disease it spread to Anita.
Anyway, while the plot moved along, you'd really have to have some of the earlier books to have a clue obout some characters and situations. And you call this one "Lessons in Oral Sex for a Woman." I thin More...
Anyway, while the plot moved along, you'd really have to have some of the earlier books to have a clue obout some characters and situations. And you call this one "Lessons in Oral Sex for a Woman." I thin More...
Aug 19, 2009
Mel
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A Stroke of Midnight begins with Merry and the Ravens attending a press conference in the sithen. This is highly unusual as the home of the sidhe is usually off-limits to the human press. However, it is felt that it is more secure than holding the conference elsewhere. This opinion is challenged almost immediately by the deaths of Beatrice, one of the lesser fae, and a human reporter. Merry, assigned to solve the murders by her aunt, Queen Andais, opts to bring in human forensics in the hope
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Jun 21, 2009
Tiah
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This is the 4th book of the Meredith Gentry series and I really liked it. There was a lot going on, a murder mystery, more powers are resurfacing and the sithen is becoming alive again. It was suspenseful and I didn't feel overwhelmed with the sex as I usually am.
But, I am having a hard time keeping track of all the new and old characters. Meredith seems to be getting more and more men and with everyone getting their powers back I am getting confused.
This book also e More...
But, I am having a hard time keeping track of all the new and old characters. Meredith seems to be getting more and more men and with everyone getting their powers back I am getting confused.
This book also e More...
Feb 04, 2010
Carrie
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I can completely tell that this is where the books slip into a ratio that is more sex than story -- and I'm not entirely complaining. With this crazy long list of characters, I could use some distracting smut to mix in with the bloody action. I can't say exactly what happened in this book, because now everything appears to be moving in slow motion (I guess I shouldn't have wished for time to slow down a few reviews ago). I'm glad I'm reading these books back to back, though, because between a
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Jan 12, 2009
Daniel
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More of the same with Hamilton. Lots of sex interrupted by a bit of plot.
This book pretty much takes place in the span of only one day and we see Merry get more action than porn star.
Only reason I read these books is because Hamilton does write well and her plot (what little there is of it) is extremely interesting and is a fully developed fantasy world with many well defined characters. Shame the author can't get over her sexual fetish though. I miss the style of More...
This book pretty much takes place in the span of only one day and we see Merry get more action than porn star.
Only reason I read these books is because Hamilton does write well and her plot (what little there is of it) is extremely interesting and is a fully developed fantasy world with many well defined characters. Shame the author can't get over her sexual fetish though. I miss the style of More...
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Dec 18, 2011
Dudes! I'm setting myself free. I feel the same pain that I felt during the later Anita Blake books. There's just way too much description, metaphysics, and over indulged sex scenes whilst not moving the plot along quickly enough. Since I'm not familiar with the method of the madness, I'm bidding this series adieu'. I'm only reading one more Laurell K. book and that will be the last one in the Anita series that's due out soon.
I mean seriously...I was okay until the idea of goblin sex, More...
I mean seriously...I was okay until the idea of goblin sex, More...
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Oct 20, 2011
Tuula
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The promising fantasy setting ideas scattered in small doses throughout this book go more or less to waste, in what is essentially a porn novel. The plot seems to have little purpose other than to provide a backdrop (and excuse) for the numerous sex scenes, and there's no room for the story to actually go anywhere, despite the author's apparent efforts. Which, sadly, makes the whole thing kind of pointless. The plot devices Hamilton uses to get her characters into bed with Princess Meredith are
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Jan 18, 2011
Lora
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I'm a little perplexed about this book. I love Laurell's style of writing and I've missed it since so much time has passed since the last Anita book came out.
But what bothered me was that everything in this book happend in the space of a few hour. For God's sake, the night didn't even end in the end. And come on - how realistic is that she had sex like 10 times for just a few hours - and didn't sleep? Yeah, they explained that the time was draging etc. but she should've passed out on the t More...
But what bothered me was that everything in this book happend in the space of a few hour. For God's sake, the night didn't even end in the end. And come on - how realistic is that she had sex like 10 times for just a few hours - and didn't sleep? Yeah, they explained that the time was draging etc. but she should've passed out on the t More...
Dec 01, 2008
Quip-er-quill
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I have read Laurell K. Hamilton books before (Clearly - I mean this is book 4 in this series and what idiot starts with book 4?), so I know what to expect: heavy on the sex and violence, light on plot, very little taxing of "the little grey cells" as Poirot would say. But this book, this book summed up everything that I don't like about her style of writing, including the tendency to reuse bits of description over and over again, verbatim, in the same book. Maybe she's going for a Home
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Mar 03, 2008
Ashley
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Well, this is a momentous occasion: I've enjoyed a Laurell K. Hamilton book for the first time since she started using everything in her books as an excuse for sex. I swore that I was going to drop this series after "Seduced by Moonlight," but a friend said that the most recent novel of this series was quite good, and so I jumped back on board.
I definitely don't regret coming back to this series. It picks up right where the previous book left off, and it's pretty much non-s More...
I definitely don't regret coming back to this series. It picks up right where the previous book left off, and it's pretty much non-s More...
Nov 22, 2007
Kathy
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From a blog post I wrote in 2005:
A Stroke of Midnight is the latest Meredith Gentry novel by Laurell K. Hamilton. Meredith is a faerie Princess fighting for her throne amidst assassination attempts and court intrigue. Oh, and there's lots of sex, too. I describe these books as faerie porn. I never thought I'd say this about anything, but there's too much sex and not enough plot in this one.
Hamilton is, well, let's just say very creative in her sex scenes. Meredith has a f More...
A Stroke of Midnight is the latest Meredith Gentry novel by Laurell K. Hamilton. Meredith is a faerie Princess fighting for her throne amidst assassination attempts and court intrigue. Oh, and there's lots of sex, too. I describe these books as faerie porn. I never thought I'd say this about anything, but there's too much sex and not enough plot in this one.
Hamilton is, well, let's just say very creative in her sex scenes. Meredith has a f More...
