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Readers tired of mild modern fairy-tales about nice, polite elves may want to explore the Meredith Gentry series, which remembers that Faerie was originally a dark, dangerous realm of sex and violence. Hamilton's Queen of Air and Darkness is a vicious killer and torturer, and many of her fay drink blood or practice kinky sex (or both). Under royal orders to bed many males, Merry is far from averse; she and several lovers hit the bedroom on page eight of Seduced by Moonlight and don't emerge until page 175. There's no shortage of sex, but not as much as the page-count may indicate; the characters like to talk and sulk even more than they like to fornicate. The large cast and complicated backstory make this book the wrong starting point for the uninitiated; newcomers should begin with the first novel, A Kiss of Shadows. --Cynthia Ward -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Readers tired of mild modern fairy-tales about nice, polite elves may want to explore the Meredith Gentry series, which remembers that Faerie was originally a dark, dangerous realm of sex and violence. Hamilton's Queen of Air and Darkness is a vicious killer and torturer, and many of her fay drink blood or practice kinky sex (or both). Under royal orders to bed many males, Merry is far from averse; she and several lovers hit the bedroom on page 8 of Seduced by Moonlight and don't emerge until page 175. There's no shortage of sex, but not as much as the page count may indicate; the characters like to talk and sulk even more than they like to fornicate. The large cast and complicated backstory make this book the wrong starting point; newcomers should begin with the first novel, A Kiss of Shadows. --Cynthia Ward -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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In diesem dritten Band versucht Merry nach wie vor schwanger zu werden. Das gesamte Buch ist nur über die Zeitspanne von vielleicht drei Tagen angelegt und beschreibt im wesentlichen Merrys Reise und Ankunft am Unseelie-Hof. Ihre zwei vorhergesagten Superkräfte hat sie ja nun schon in den beiden ersten Büchern gefunden, aber natürlich darf sie auch in Band drei neue Fähigkeiten an sich entdecken. Und ihre Tante schiebt ihr gleich eine ganze Reihe neuer Männer in ihre Leibwache - und damit auch in ihr Bett.
Ich habe nicht empfunden, dass dieser dritte Band die Geschichte gross voranbringt. Nichts von dem was in Band 3 passiert, kam für mich so richtig unerwartet oder hat einen Aha-Effekt ausgelöst. Gelitten haben für mich besonders die paar vermeintlichen Action-Szenen, die ich sehr halbherzig geschrieben fand. Und nach wie vor ist mir Merry nicht sympathisch genug als Hauptfigur. Reihenweise knien Männer - und teilweise auch Frauen vor ihrer Schönheit, ihrem Mut, ihren Kräften, ihrer überwältigenden sexuellen Austrählung danieder. Und anders als bei Anita Blake stören hier auch die ewigen Beschreibungen, wer wie angezogen (bzw. ausgezogen) ist.
Trotzdem kann ich nicht aufhören die Serie zu lesen, vielleicht gerade weil sich nichts weiterentwickelt. Ich möchte nun endlich wissen, was mit Cel passiert und wer aus der grossen Schar der Bewunderer Merrys es letztlich auf den Thron schaffen wird. Bei Band 4 sehen wir uns also wieder.
In "Seduced By Moonlight," the third in the series devoted to Princess Meredith NicEssus, the half-mortal heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court. At this point in the erotic story of the immortal fey we are now half way through the six month period during which her cousin Prince Cel has been imprisoned by his mother, Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness. Merry and Cel are the two claimants to the throne and the winner will be the first to produce a child. Towards that end the Queen has given Merry some of her personal guards, the Queen's Ravens, to the bed of the princess. So far their efforts have been unsuccessful and the fact that each instance of intercourse is fraught with such profound implications for the fey is wearing thin on Merry. To put the matter delicately, Merry is longing for sex that is not procreational in nature.
This is not to say that Merry does not have romantic problems as well. If you thought Anita Blake sat on the fence a long time trying to choose between Jean-Claude the vampire and Richard the werewolf, then Merry mulling over Doyle, Frost, Rhys, Galen, and which ever new lovers end up in her bed in each novel might prove even more exasperating. But then which one she loves the most is a moot point, since it is whoever impregnates Merry who will be her consort. Sex is a key part of the politics of the fey, where the flesh and blood of the sidhe have power and are additional bargaining chips for those who would dare to play them. Merry is not only out to keep herself alive but also to protect those who are loyal to her and if that means bargaining with the goblins and other members of the fey, she will do what has to be done.
My biggest complaint Hamilton's novels in recent years has been that whether we are talking Princess Merry or Anita Blake the recurring motif has been for the heroine to pull another power out of her hat at the climax of the story. Since Merry has already come into both of her hands of power, flesh and blood respectively, I had to wonder what part of her anatomy would suddenly display a new power. Indeed this happens, but instead of being part of the grand finale it is woven throughout the narrative as Merry's importance to the fey continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Meanwhile, Queen Andais sends more Ravens for Merry to bed, apparently convinced that the secret to getting the princess pregnant is for her to take two lovers to her bed at the same time (there are also indications that the former divine aspects of the lovers is a critical part of the equation: to be continued).
The climax of "Seduced by Moonlight" is when Merry and her company return to the Unseelie Court to meet again with the Queen of Air and Darkness. More importantly, this is where the old Laurell K. Hamilton returns with a vengeance. Andais has a taste for pain and cruelty, but what Merry and her escort find is beyond their expectation and experience. This is only the opening act in the novel's end game, where Hamilton finally proves that she still remembers how to pour it on. I had been reading chapters of this book here and there, but once Merry got back to the Unseelie Court I read the rest of the book straight through. I really do not care if Hamilton wants to keep throwing soft core porn into her novels as long as she also delivers on the gut-wrenching horror. At the end of this novel she provides exactly what attracted me to her writing in the first place and what made me claim her best stories make Stephen King look relatively tame in comparison.
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