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| Original Title: | Divine Misdemeanors |
| ISBN: | 0345495969 (ISBN13: 9780345495969) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Merry Gentry #8 |
| Characters: | Doyle, Rhys, Meredith "Merry" Gentry, Sean Galen, Frost (Killing Frost), Mistral, Barinthus, Royal, Bittersweet, Sholto, Kitto |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hardcover | Pages: 333 pages Rating: 4.05 | 23539 Users | 737 Reviews
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I'm not really sure why I read this series anymore. The actual mystery of the novel is shoved aside for the better part of the book to make way for arguing, sex, and pissing contests. And if it's not that, then the rest of the book is made up of hair and eye color descriptions for all the various characters. Hamilton's fascination with hair down to the ankles and with the varying heights of the characters is mind-boggling. She seems to spend more time thinking up these various combinations than actually working on the plot. Merry's decided she's going to be a detective now that she's been exiled to California. She gets called in to help the police with a case where faeries are being murdered and arranged and posed to look like pages out of a fairy tale book. Merry's men don't want her to get too involved since she's pregnant, but Merry is stubborn and wants to know who's killing her people. About 250 pages go by after this initial setup and we arrive at the conclusion of the story. The mystery is figured out and wrapped up within the last 30 pages or so. Just about everything that happens in between is either a rehash of old events, pissing contests between the men, or Merry running around trying not to get herself killed. Doyle and Frost, Merry's two main men are little more than bodyguards in this book. She doesn't sleep with them and Frost barely says a word at all. Doyle's main phrase throughout the book is; "Once I was the Queen's Darkness ..." while Frost's phrase is; "I was once the Killing Frost ..." They both like to wax poetic on how badass they used to be but it just seems silly now. It's gotten to the point where I honestly like Sholto better, his character is more developed and he actually has a personality. Doyle and Frost seem castrated and I've grown bored with them. My biggest problem with this book though is the repetition and constant explanations that are unnecessary and bog the book down. There are so many phrases and scenes in this book that feel lifted from the previous novels that at times it feels like Hamilton copied and pasted to fill up the pages. There would be times when someone would say or do something wrong and this would be pointed out to the reader and then someone would say, "what did I miss, why is that wrong?" and then it'd be explained. Then, if things weren't being explained constantly, Merry was arguing with her men about who was in charge. And if Merry wasn't arguing about who was in charge then the men were arguing with each other. I don't know why Hamilton thinks this moves the plot along because it doesn't. It's frustrating to say the least. The men Merry sleeps with in this book are mostly secondary characters and it's gotten to the point where it just doesn't make sense anymore. She claims to love Doyle and Frost as her main men but hardly spends any time with them. She's pregnant now so she doesn't have to whore around so much but she chooses to anyway and I don't see the reason for this other than Hamilton wanting to write all the different and strange sex scenes. I have to say that probably without the sex scenes this book would be even weaker than it was though. This series has so much potential and each book it just seems to be wasted. The main mystery is forgotten for most of the book and then neatly wrapped up within the last few pages. Hamilton's writing suffers more and more with each book and she could really benefit from a new editor, or maybe even a break from writing all together. I'm mostly disappointed because I thought Swallowing Darkness was actually a step-up from the previous books, but now it seems like that was just an anomaly. I honestly don't know if Hamilton will ever change her writing though, because she does sell her books. I can hope though.
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| Title | : | Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8) |
| Author | : | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 333 pages |
| Published | : | November 24th 2009 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Fairies. Fae. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 23539 Users | 737 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8)
This book was lacking plot more than any other I have seen form LKH. We started out with a good mystery story but it quickly dissolved into a bunch of random mini dramas with her harem. Not even original drama at that. More than a few times throughout this book i recognized scenes and descriptions almost word for word form previous books. Not just a writing style, but almost a copy and paste job. There were three pages describing the licking of icing off a cupcake. Three pages. They served zeroI'm not going to say much about this book cause there was nothing good about it. I did not rush out to buy it on the release date and instead had to bring myself to read it cause I was scared to. I was honestly hoping that the author saved the series in this book but was sorely disappointed.This author (Laurell Hamilton) and her books is the reason I actually joined Goodreads, cause I was tired of buying her books and being disappointed. In my opinion this authors writing has been going downhill
At the end of Swallowing Darkness, I felt LKH had successfully brought closure to what proved to be an intriguing series. I worried a new arc would only dilute the effectiveness of the universe and its characters. I prepped myself for complete disappointment. The reality was...meh.What held my attention, and will guarantee my continued reading, was the mention of the soldiers Merry saved in SD. The Goddess has taken an interest in those humans, and I'm compelled to find out where it's all
I am adoring this series. The political intrigue, the inclusiveness, the power games and there's real science fiction in it; oh, and the lovely men folk. It's a shame this is the last book so far, I'll just have to be patient from now on.Given that I'm currently also reading "The Prince" and the dictatorships in the Middle East are changing shape so rapidly the parallels are fascinating in the series overall as well.
Now I will admit- the last two volumes of this series entertained me enough to give them both 3 stars. 'Lick of Frost' had a bit of the old Hamilton return to it, while 'Swallowing Darkness' was so unintentionally funny that I was incredibly entertained the whole way through. I just wish that I'd have found that sort of entertainment here.The plot of the book was supposed to be Merry attempting to solve a series of murders where the victims are dressed up to mimic pages from a children's book.
Meredith Gentry #8: Divine Misdemeanors, by Laurell K. HamiltonI had high hopes at the start of this Merry book - she's back in Los Angeles, back at the Grey Detective Agency, even back on a crime scene. Someone in the city is murdering the demi-fey and posing their bodies after pictures in children's books, and the police want her help before any more fey die. But that promise quickly degenerates with too much recap of previous events, multiple sex scenes, and a weak ending. Hamilton goes
It's 4.5*I wish she would interrupt the plot less, the sex, we get it, it's important, but please don't fuck so much all the time all over the place *sigh*
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