A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4) by Laurell K. Hamilton and Laural Merlington

Buy A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4) here. To find out more information or to view another item in this category, click next Mystery & Thrillers. To go back to where you were looking, use the "you are here" links below. Thank you for shopping at audiobookoncd.com!

A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4) from Mystery & Thrillers

A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4)
Available from Amazon
Price: $16.99
Updated on 11-9-2008.

Features

Audio CD

Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Value Priced; Abridged edition (March 28, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 159600813X

ISBN-13: 978-1596008137

Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Solving a double homicide, avoiding assassins and coping with growing, sometimes uncontrollable, power keep faerie private detective Princess Meredith NicEssus (aka Meredith Gentry) busy in the fourth and strongest entry in Hamilton's adult fairy tale series (after 2004's Seduced by Moonlight). When someone murders a fey and a reporter during a press conference inside the Unseelie's headquarters, Merry calls in the cops to assist (and inadvertently involves the FBI as well). But once on magical turf, human police face challenges and dangers of which the princess was unaware. Meanwhile, Merry lives up to the five fertility deities in her lineage and lustily fulfills her royal duty of mating with sidhe males and making sex beyond mere human comprehension. As Merry matures, the meaning of all the sex and magic comes into more effective focus, as does Hamilton's underlying mythos of the restoration of the faerie race's true power. The absence of complicated politics results in a more palatable plot than in previous volumes. By the end, the Unseelie court seems to be tiring of Merry's super-sadistic Aunt Andais, the Queen of Air and Darkness (as are, most likely, many readers). The queen's son and Merry's rival for the throne, Prince Cel, looms as an even greater, more corrupt menace to her future. Faeries, fornication and forensics fuse for yet another darkly fantastic frolic for Hamilton fans.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From AudioFile
This fascinating audiobook should carry a parental warning about sexually explicit content. A fairy princess uses detective skills she learned while with the Los Angeles Police to investigate a double homicide in Fairyland. Seriously, Fairyland. Author Laurell K. Hamilton pulls it off, largely because of the skills of performer Laural Merlington, who brings the characters to sensuous life. Her breathy, lengthy (all of Disc 11) descriptions of orgies between Princess Meredith and her stable of lovers manage to be erotic and somehow respectable. When Merlington gives voice to burly characters like Killing Frost and Darkness, she continues her convincing performance. M.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4) (Hardcover) I was a fan of Laurell K. Hamilton since I first picked up Lunatic Cafe. I have bought every book of hers since then. However I feel she has begun an alarming trend of writing soft-core porn rather than fantasy fiction with great stories with the occasional hot, steamy sex scene. I find myself with great difficulty writing this review to tell you not to bother buying this book. It's such a waste, I feel like I was mugged. The last book ended with Merry at a press conference inside the Sithen, well get this, the entire 366 page book takes place that same night and ends before dawn! (Hence the title Stroke of Midnight, I'm sure.) The "story" is that Merry has lots of sex, the goddess manifests, lots of magic happens, people get new powers, she cries, some of the guards cry, the Queen acts psycho...in other words exactly the same as the last book and the last and the... There is no movement in the plotline whatsoever. With the exception of a show like 24 hours, this kind of writing that stretches a storyline's action over a one day time period just doesn't work. Especially not in a book! I don't believe this is anything more than an excuse to turn a storyline that should be limited to a trilogy into something that takes 13 or more lucrative books to "tell". In all fairness, I must say the sex scenes are very well written and riveting. (Hence the 2 stars instead of the one I'm tempted to give this book.) I actually enjoyed reading them; however once I realized that's all that was there I was extremely pissed! This book is like a bad porno movie, all extremely unlikely sex scenes and no plot! Now the main character is even going to have sex with girl guards "to protect them from her evil cousin". All I can say is this seems a blatant attempt at expanding her marketbase to make sure and capture those with lesbian tendencies and the potential guy market with some hot girl on girl action. I have no problem with a book with awesome sex scenes but when you have the main character doing nothing but "doing it" for over 300 hundred pages, almost no emotional context, and no actual storyline development, then even raunchy sex gets old.

A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, Book 4)
List Price: $16.99
Available from Amazon
Price: $16.99
Updated on 11-9-2008.