372 pages

English language

Published April 26, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-425-25566-7
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OCLC Number:
861478693

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of both courts of faerie are coming to court Merry and her men, at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have babies of their own. Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, is a more dangerous problem. He tried to seduce Merry and, failing that, raped her. He's using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. And though Merry knows she was already pregnant when he took her, she can't prove it. To save herself and her babies from Taranis she will use the most dangerous powers …

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2 stars

Um, oh. I think the author has gotten her characters confused. She's accidentally written the main character as the sexy detective Mary Sue and not the sexy former detective Mary Sue. Did you want to know what the characters from the last 8 books look like, even though they've been exhaustively described in the last 8 books? The author thinks you do. Give it two chapters and we'll go over it again. And again. Hoo boy.

Ain't gonna lie, I'm in this series for the gratuitous pornography, so I really don't want to read about a fairy sex princess trying to balance her cheque book. And all the babies. Magical as they may be, there is nothing sexful about babies all over the place. Save yourself the trouble and forget this late and half-arsed addition to the series even exists.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Meredith Gentry (Fictitious character)
  • General
  • Fairies
  • Contemporary
  • FICTION

Places

  • Los Angeles (Calif.)