I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because “Princess” looks so pretentious on a driver’s license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldn’t be the only one for much longer…
Merry Gentry, exprivate detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of both courts of faerie are coming to court Merry and her men, at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have babies of their own.
Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, is a more dangerous problem. He tried to seduce Merry and, failing that, raped her. He’s using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. And though Merry knows she was already pregnant when he took her, she can’t prove it.
To save herself and her babies from Taranis she 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.
About the Author:
Laurell K. Hamilton’s is a paranormal thriller writer and is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List through titles in her two series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry: Fairy Princess/Private Eye. The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, published by Penguin Group under the Berkley Books imprint, spans 17 novels, including Skin Trade, released earlier this year. With over 6 million copies in print worldwide and available in over 16 languages, there is no end in sight for Anita, the professional necromancer and licensed vampire executioner.
Marvel Comics has worked closely with Hamilton to adapt her books in the Anita Blake series into comic book medium with a stunning amount of success. The first installment of the graphic novel, Guilty Pleasures, was released in July 2007 and was the number one best selling graphic novel for that month.
The Meredith Gentry series published by Ballantine Books features Meredith Gentry as a part-human, part-fey private investigator. Under orders from her aunt Andias, Queen of the Unseelie Court, Meredith is in a race to become pregnant and ascend the throne before her cousin Cel does. The cost of failure will be her own life and that of those who follow her. The next Merry book, Divine Misdemeanors, will debut December 8th, 2009.
Laurell Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri, with her husband and partner Jonathon Green, her daughter, and their pug. Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion (now Indiana Wesleyan University.
Jennifer’s Review of A Shiver of Light
Review (4.5 Stars): Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my absolute favorite authors and I have always been a huge fan of her Anita Blake/Merry Gentry series. Most of us thought that Merry’s series ended with Divine Misdemeanors because Ms. Hamilton hasn’t written anything about these characters since 2009. When I heard that she was coming out with A Shiver of Light, I was so excited to see what was in store next for Meredith and the men in her life.
At the beginning of A Shiver of Light, Merry is at the end of her pregnancy and we discover that she will be delivering triplets instead of twins as we first believed. I liked seeing this different side to Merry’s character due to motherhood and how the birth of these babies changes her relationship with the men in her life. Having children changes everything and Merry isn’t the only affected by these little ones.
While Merry and her clan are adjusting to the new additions in their family, Merry is hit with the information that her Uncle Taranis wants visitation rights for the children because he believes that one of the babies is his. Merry was already pregnant when Taranis assaulted her but now has to prove through genetic testing that Taranis isn’t the father of one of her children. Taranis is a dangerous man and if he can’t prove that one of the children are his, he is capable of losing everything. Now, it is up to Meredith and the men in her life to protect their own from the people that are out to destroy them.
I think that A Shiver of Light was definitely worth the wait and this book made me happy and heart-broken all at the same time. I won’t give too much away but I have to say this was a great addition to the series and the ending definitely left me speechless.
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