A Kiss of Shadows
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553813838
ISBN: 0553813838
Label: Bantam Books
Number Of Pages: 470
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher: Bantam Books
Studio: Bantam Books
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Summary: More of an adult read
Comment: a good book but with some things in it more of an adult read. If you like the modern fantasy type of read this is for you a good change from her Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series
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Summary: Kiss of Shadows
Comment: Kiss of Shadows is the first book in an amazing series, this is the opening book, and one that you cant put down. this is where merry starts her journey. Shes a PA, then is attacked and taken back to the uncellie court. where her aunt gives her the wager, past the death attemps by cel she makes it to fight another day! But can she become the Queen?
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Summary: fairy porn
Comment: My Nan bought me this book, believing it to be a story about happy, helpful little fairies flitting from flower to flower - oh, how wrong she was! On reading the blurb, I realised her mistake but thought I might as well read it even though it isn't the type of book I would usually go for. And to tell you the truth, it isn't that bad. Yes, the characters are a bit two-dimensional and the sex scenes slightly excessive and just plain baffling at times but, despite all that, i found myself unable to put this book down. In fact, I have even bought the other two books in the series and eagerly await the next installment. Why? I honestly couldn't tell you. The writing does occasionally suck ("my skin glowed like i'd swallowed the moon" is included countless times) but the imaginary world that Hamilton has created is vast and intriguing and somehow leaves you wanting more. So I guess I'm recommending this book...sort of...
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Summary: Awful
Comment: Absolutely dire. A trashy romance thing pretending to be an actual story. Should have guessed from the cover, I suppose, but I've enjoyed the author's other work. Shame because the first couple of chapters actually sounded like there was going to be a decent plot to the book but it quickly degenerated into soft porn with cookie-cutter characters who had all the individual personality of a piece of cardboard that had a face painted on it. I only got the damned thing because Smiths didn't have the eighth Anita Blake novel in and I pray to any listening deity that this isn't the direction the later books in that series took. It's a distinct and disturbing possibility because the main character has more than a little in common with Anita in both personality and appearance. Distinct lack of imagination there really.
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Summary: Painful "Kiss"
Comment: Laurell K. Hamilton branches out from her bestselling Anita Blake novels with a new, fae-oriented series. She really shouldn't have bothered. While "Kiss of Shadows" starts off dark and intriguing, the plot rapidly degenerates into a NC-17 fantasy without much more than sweaty gyrations to recommend it.
Part-mortal Princess Meredith NicEssus -- undercover as Merry Gentry -- is a P.I. in Los Angeles, which apparently is swarming with fey and fey-wannabes. Keeping her identity a secret is vital, since she knows the dangers that would follow being uncovered. But while investigating a supernatural date-raper (and falling prey to him) Merry's identity leaks out.
Before you can say "bonk 'em all," she is given an ultimatum by her aunt, the queen of the Unseelie Court: she and her evil cousin Cel are both going to try to have a baby. The one who succeeds will be the next ruler -- the other is toast. Merry is assigned a harem of fae men, all of whom want her as much as she wants them. Physically, anyway.
Here's a warning: "Kiss of Shadows" has a lot of sex. A LOT of sex. A sufficient amount that, among other things, Merry hops in the happy sack with any guy lucky enough to meet her. Oh, and she has a male harem. Sound like an adult movie? Well, it pretty much is -- lots of excuses to have sex, including an enjoyable rape (did a woman really write this book?) and Merry nearly being molested by the entire L.A.P.D. And that's before it gets REALLY raunchy.
For anyone hoping for more than soft-porn, the book is lacking. It starts off strong, with a battered woman and a magical want ad, and Merry going undercover to lure out the magic-sucking guy involved. But once she bonks her selkie boyfriend, the plot goes down the tubes. What is worse, the sex obscures the mysterious cultures and subcultures of the fey and sidhe -- Hamilton hints at interesting cultures, rituals and different races, but seems to lose interest in the idea.
Without a developed backdrop, the actual plot feels rushed and half-finished. Hamilton also could use a better editor, since her writing quickly becomes repetitive -- lots of hair, unusual eye color, strange powers. All the men are madly attractive, chiseled, and devoid of any individual personality. All the women are beautiful, usually dainty.
Merry isn't terribly interesting -- she starts off as a moderately entertaining P.I. with a barbed sense of humor. Then it just sort of fades away. Queen Andais is also moderately interesting, as the villain of the piece. Merry's harem guys have paint-by-numbers personalities, and after the initial introductions they just become a heap of interchangeable sexy bodies.
Buried somewhere in "Kiss of Shadows" is a really good novella, but it's choked by a poorly thought-out soft-porn movie. Hamilton had the right idea, but the execution is a painful "Kiss."
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