|
|
TechnoTV - Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, Book 7)
|
List Price: $26.00
Our Price: $14.48
Your Save: $ 11.52 ( 44% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
|
Average Customer Rating:   
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345495938
ISBN: 0345495934
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Studio: Ballantine Books
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Upsetting and Disappointing
Comment: It seems that in this book, Hamilton has grown tired of this series. Everything seems rushed and in the last few books, it was kind of like that too.
After reading this book, it seems that all the things Merry has done and gone through has been for nothing. It is a bitter disappointment and it seems that there isn't a lot of thought put into how to give the big finale.
All in all, Swallowing Darkness seems a little bit too dry, too rushed, and too little of most things. I am pretty sure that this will be one of the few books that I will put on the shelf and refuse to read it in the future.
This book was almost too bitter to swallow.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Am finally done with LKH
Comment: Okay, I had already given up on the Anita series, but I stuck it out with this series because I really liked the last book. I'm now done. Unless it falls off a truck in front of me and I have nothing else to read and I'm tied to a bed and - I think you get the picture. I actually returned this one to the store.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Swallowing Darkness
Comment: This is by far one of the best Merry Gentry books. I have been so disappointed in the last 3 or so that I wasn't sure I wanted to read this one. There was actually closure to so many open story lines that LKH kept on dragging out through her books. I'm actually excited for the next book.... Something I haven't felt about LKH's writing in a long time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This book is almost nonstop action.
Comment: She is Princess Meredith Nic Essus. Wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and now pregnant with twins. The fathers being her loyal bodyguards. All of whom were once her Aunt's bodyguards, Andais the Queen of Air and Darkness, and Queen of the Unseelie court. There is Doyle, known as simply Darkness by most circles, and her strong right hand. Frost, also known as Killing Frost, lost in the last book of the series to help Meredith bring back much of the magic once lost magic to Faerie. Sholto, King of the sluagh, Lord of that Which Passes Between. Rhys, once a death god. Galen, the Greenman, her childhood love. Mistral, the Storm Lord. All of whom have regained powers thought lost by sharing the bed of Meredith.
Swallowing Darkness begins where A Lick of Frost ended. Merry is in a hospital's maternity ward after being magically raped by her Uncle, King Taranis, The King of Light and Illusion and leader of the Seelie court. The pace of the novel begins here slowly, but with a sense of building. Is Merry now Queen of the Unseelie since she's finally pregnant? Will revenge be taken upon Taranis? Will Merry's children look like Sidhe or something else due to her and the fathers mixed heritage?
This book is almost nonstop action. It can be read in one sitting because you don't want to put it down. What made this novel better than the others is the pace. Once it gets a hold of you, it doesn't let go.
Ms. Hamilton almost lost me in this series with Mistral's Kiss and A Stroke of Midnight, but the series came back with A Lick of Frost. With Swallowing Darkness it solidifies Ms. Hamilton's storytelling abilities once again.
Is this the last book in the series as the net rumor holds? I don't think so. There are too many questions left unanswered. What I do know is that this novel is one of the best Ms. Hamilton has produced in years. Well worth buying in hard bound.
Reviewed at Bitten by Books Paranormal Fiction Review Site
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic
Comment: I have been following Laurell K. Hamilton's work for the past 8 years now and I have yet to be dissapointed in the direction shown within each of her series. Ms. Hamilton's new offering, "Swallowing Darkness," lives up to my standards for an interesting, exciting, and thought-provoking read. I only hope that she will continue providing such amazing plots and dynamic characters for many more years to come.
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.
Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt’s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Court–and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.
But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.
I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price–for I am truly my father’s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything–even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
