A Shiver of Light (Meredith Gentry Series #9)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Overview

Merry Gentry, ex–private detective and full-time princess, is now the mother of triplets, a rarity in the high ranks of faerie. And not everyone is happy about it, including Taranis, King of Light and Illusion. He’s using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. To save herself and her children, Merry will use the most dangerous powers in all of faerie: a god of death, a warrior known as the Darkness, the Killing Frost, and a king of nightmares. They are her lovers, and her dearest loves, and they will face down the might of the high courts of faerie—while trying to keep the war from spreading to innocent humans in Los Angeles, who are in danger of becoming collateral damage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780698146631
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Series:	Meredith Gentry Series , #9
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	47,971
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.

Hometown:

St. Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth:

February 19, 1963

Place of Birth:

Heber Springs, Arkansas

Education:

B.A., Marion College

Website:

http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris

“This [faerie] society is one of the most detailed, imaginative, and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction, and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special.”—San Jose Mercury News

Editorial Reviews

06/15/2014
In this long-awaited sequel to 2009's Divine Misdemeanors, homegrown American faerie princess (and former PI) Meredith (Merry) NicEssus gives birth to enchanted triplets. But she knows from bloody experience that life in the faerie court is far from fairy-tale perfect. The constant target of ruthless relatives, Merry, along with her consorts and the other faerie who chose exile in the human world, has to be ready for dangers coming her way. VERDICT After a five-year hiatus, best-selling author Hamilton returns with a spellbinding series follow-up. Her ingeniously imaginative worldbuilding, erotically inventive plot, and dark lyrical narrative are still impressive and don't lessen now that Merry is a mom. Fans will rejoice as the author puts Merry and her merry men through their paces in and out of the bedroom. For new readers, the series, which has a strong R rating, should be read in order.—Debbie Haupt, St. Charles City-Cty. Lib. Dist., St. Peters, MO

Library Journal

Lots of action, royal faerie court intrigue, love, and loss.”—Fresh Fiction

“The ending of the book blew me away…Brilliant.”—The Flutterby Room

“Worth waiting for.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“The world-building remains spectacular.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Merry Gentry, detective turned fairy princess, adjusts to her new powers in Hamilton’s series. Charlotte Hill shows narrative authority as she directs complex conversations between Merry and her six lovers, who together fathered her three magical sets of triplets. This novel, composed mainly of discussion, presents unique audio challenges even as Hill’s voicings provide clarity and drama. Extensive, repetitive dialogue makes it difficult for her to establish the book’s narrative drive. She convincingly expresses Merry’s affection for her partners, but listeners will wonder if it could be dramatized more succinctly. In the last chapters, a tragedy allows Hill to speed up the pace, but it’s too little too late. C.A. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2014 - AudioFile

2014-05-07
Fae princess Merry Gentry is about to give birth to triplets at the ad hoc Court she's established in Los Angeles, giving rise to political and personal complications across the faerie world and threatening those closest to her. Merry, born Princess Meredith NicEssus, is the first faerie princess born on American soil, with bloodline ties to both the Seelie and Unseelie Royal Courts. Having survived countless assassination attempts, she fled to California and lived a mortal life as a private investigator for years, but recently, her magic has awakened, and she has established her own household with powerful lovers while creating alliances with other supernatural beings. Both Fae Courts are likely ruled by infertile leaders, causing infertility in the population, so many faeries are following Merry to LA and pledging their allegiance to her, hoping she will help them bear children of their own. Meanwhile, her enemy, King Taranis, is using both magical and legal means to get Merry under his influence, all while Merry and her stable of lovers are settling in to life with three babies, from two different fathers. Paranormal superstar Hamilton returns to her Merry Gentry series with the same storytelling imbalance that affects most of her books these days: There's too much boring sex, talking about sex, and Merry waxing rhapsodic about her many, many lovers. We catch occasional glimpses of Hamilton's brilliant storytelling and compelling imagination, and the worldbuilding remains spectacular, with its many amazing physical and spiritual details—when we get to see it. Hamilton grew her reputation on her action-packed, supernatural storytelling and eroticism, and while we get slivers of it, we have to wade through too much banality to get there. A shadow of Hamilton's greatness, but avid fans waiting for the continuation of Merry's story will still buy it.

Kirkus Reviews