Seduced By Moonlight: (Merry Gentry 3) (Merry Gentry, #3)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

To some I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. To others I am Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Faerie. And there are those who whisper that I am both of these and more.
My aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, no long distracted by her sadistic pastimes, now focusses unwaveringly on me. I spend each night with my immortal guards, but still no child has come of our decadent pleasures. But something IS happening to me. I appear to have awakened a force that's lain dormant for thousands of years and I haven't the damndest idea how or why...
It all began with the chalice. I dreamed it, and there it was - cool and hard - when I awoke. My guards know this ancient relic well - its disappearance so many ages ago stripped them of their vital powers. And here it is with us now. My touch resonates with its force. A strange, dazzling magic now courses through my half-mortal half-Sidhe body. But while my guards cherish me for this unexpected gift, there are those who loathe me for it and would rather the Unseelie court suffer than have it ruled over by me, a mongrel queen. My enemies grow in number every day. If only they knew what I am capable of. But come to that, if only I did too.
This is the world of Meredith Gentry, a twilight world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls, a world full of sensuality, wild magic, treacherous deceits and latent powers about to be unleashed...

• ISBN10: 0553816322
• ISBN13: 9780553816327
• Publish Date: 14 January 2005 (first published 1 January 2004)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[Melanie]

This is another re-listen for me as I prepare for the newest Merry Gentry book, A Shiver of Light, that comes out in early June.

I've been a big fan of Ms. Hamilton for a long time now and have read both series religiously for years. I've stuck through the Anita Blake series when many walked away. There are somethings that aren't great, but I like the characters and the overall plot. I get annoyed with the endless descriptions of characters and their clothing at times. And yes, the sex can get carried away in the Anita series, not as much in this one, that I remember.

The one think that has always drove me nuts with these books is that the editing could use some work. When I say that, I don't mean grammar or punctuation. I mean that the same character in this book has two different names. Early in the book they refer to him as Whisper. Later they refer to him as Silence. It didn't seem to me as if it is two different names like Doyle and Darkness. It is almost like she forgot what she names him and this isn't the first time that I've noticed this. I think this is due tot he fact that she pushes deadlines and doesn't give enough time for editing. I saw on Facebook that she just wrote "The End" a few days ago for a book to be release in early June. That is four months to edit and publish, which seems extremely short. I really wish she would take the time to allow more editing to be sure that things less likely to happen. I know not every book is perfect, but to have two different names in the same book, is a little strange to me.

I love the worlds that Ms. Hamilton has created and I love most of the characters even more. I just feel when little things like this happen, it pulls me out of the fictional world that is created and takes something out of the story.

[ibeforem]

This was pretty par for the course for this series. Lots of weird sexual situations, not much plot. You really don’t notice how *little* plot there is, until you get to the end of the book and realize that it only covered a couple of days. I wasn’t real fond of the way this one ended — it was very abrupt. No real resolution. I have a feeling that once I read the next one, I’ll feel like the two should have been one book.