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Title: Divine Misdemeanors: A Novel (Meredith Gentry, Book 8)
ISBN: 0345495969
Author:
Laurell K. Hamilton
Publicate Date: 2009-12-08
Publish: 2009-12-08
List Price: $26.00
Average Customer Rating: 2.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Julie's Review
Huge fan of Meredith Gentry and the series just gets more and more interesting as it goes. A must read!
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2: tracey humphreys
i really enjoyed this series. i flew threw all 8 books, and am grateful for my kindle satiating my need to do so! if you're sexually repressed, these books will either open your mind or freak you out though.
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3: Fey Murders
Divine Misdemeanors (2009) is the eighth Fantasy novel in the Meredith Gentry series, following Swallowing Darkness. In the previous volume, Merry and her bodyguards were fleeing the slaugh in an Army convoy. They encountered Prince Cel in the middle of the road, claiming that he would protect Merry now that she is pregnant.
Nobody believed Cel and the humvees tried to bypass Cel's party. But illusions and other magics brought the soldiers out of the vehicles and then hurt them. Since Cel was killing her people, Merry finally took him out.
In this novel, Meredith Gentry is half-sidhe, a quarter brownie, and a quarter human. Merry is the daughter of Essus -- the brother of the current Queen of Air and Darkness -- and is a princess in the Unseelie Court. She had been offered the Unseelie crown, but declined for the love of Frost and for her unborn babies.
Doyle is part sidhe and one of Merry's bodyguards. He is the one whom Merry loves the most among the fey.
Frost is a minor fey who became more after he gained a wife and child. Now he seems fully sidhe and is only second to Doyle in Merry's love and the bodyguard hierarchy.
Rhys is a full-blooded sidhe and a former god of death. He is third in the bodyguard chain of command.
Barinthus is a full-blooded sidhe and a former god of the sea. He has been living in the beach house since release from the Queen's service.
Lucy Tate is a police detective who has worked with Merry on other cases.
Bittersweet is a demi-fey with wings. She is a flower fey who is bound to a particular type of floral plant.
Gilda is the fairy godmother of Los Angeles. She has magic, but is not as powerful as Merry. Gilda is not very friendly with the Princess.
In this story, Merry is called in by the police to advise on a killing of the demi-fey. The small fey had been dressed in traditional clothes to match an old illustration and posed with cut flowers. They had all died with slit throats.
After Merry, Doyle and Frost leave the crime scene, they visit the Fael Tea Shop to warn other demi-fey of the danger. But someone else has arrived before them. Bittersweet had seen the killers leave the circle and is now being hysterical in the backroom.
Merry calls Lucy and the detective sends two street cops to protect the witness. They arrive soon after the call and Bittersweet has a hissy fit. Merry calms her down and then Lucy arrives.
Bittersweet vaguely describes the killers, but Lucy cannot get much out of her comments. Then the demi-fey becomes agitated again. At the appearance of Gilda, Bittersweet hides in her hair. The police try to hold back Gilda's followers and a magic wand is used.
In the confusion, Merry is hustled out of the shop and down the street. Then the paparazzi find them, so Merry and her bodyguards duck into a deli catering to fey. The owner's wife turns out to be a relative of Merry's brownie grandmother. They have a nice cup of tea while the photographers and reporters crowd against the shop window.
Then the window crashes into the shop, injuring the foremost of the frenzied crowd. Ambulances arrive to care for the injured and the police also show. Somehow, Bittersweet escapes during the excitement.
Another staged killing is found and Merry is called in again to advise the police. While Merry has some wise suggestions for Lucy, paparazzi again come after Merry. Again Merry has to be escorted to her vehicle by police.
Meanwhile, Merry is having problems with some of her bodyguards. Several were recently released to her from the guard of Prince Cel after his death. They don't really know what to expect, so she goes out of her way to prove her different approach.
Part of the problem is with the female guards. Prince Cel jerked them around even more than his male guards. One has a flashback experience on one of Cel's sadistic mannerisms.
Other guards are impatient for their visit to her bed. Doyle, Frost, Rhys and others have regained some of their lost powers after bedding Merry. Barinthus feels that he is past due for such renewal.
This tale brings problems due to Merry relinquishing claim to the Unseelie throne. Some groups within the fey who have been allied with her are now holding back and waiting for whoever replaces Queen Andais. Others want Merry to reconsider and take the throne herself.
The story has more sex than most others in this series, which means many sexual antics. She even has little time for Doyle and Frost in this book. Yet she does include the new guards in her bed.
The estate is becoming crowded. Over a handred fey are housed within the house and grounds and many are mentioned within this story. The publisher needs to include a list of characters in these books.
The story only covers a few days, but contains a wealth of action and excitement. Read and enjoy!
Highly recommended for Hamilton fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of sidhe magic, police investigations, and a young fertility goddess. If anyone has not previously read this series, the initial volume is A Kiss of Shadows.
-Arthur W. Jordin
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4: Get this from the library if you must continue a series that is dying a slow death!
I have given up on buying LKH books, I just get them from the library. Believe me, I am thankful that I am not wasting my money!. I can only say this book was horrific. I had the chance to get this book and Flirt from the library. In flirt LKH talks of how hard it was to write Devine Misdemeanors, she was absolutely write. However, there was no guilt in publishing this dreck. So I will not be reading any more of this series, and I doubt if I will torture myself with Anita Blake. Flirt had a whoping 165 pages, not even a novella and they push this crap in hard back. At least Flirt was not as bad as most of the last few A.Blake series. My suggestion, if you are new to LKH get the first four books of the Meredith series and the first ten of the Anita Blake series, then just call it a day.
Good Luck!!!
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5: divine misdemeanors
There was so much sex n the book i sometimes lost the plot and had 2 back up or go forward.
A little less please or more tasteful like Feehan and Adrian. This series reads like erotica and i dont read erotica.
That said I love merry and the guys and am totally n luv with Frost and Darkness. I just dont want 2 work so hard at reading a book.
I am not a prude but there is such a thing as 2 much. Thats why i dont read Zane
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