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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Meredith Gentry: Princess of Faerie, private eye. Queen of the Slaugh. She has the hands of flesh and blood. She cares about her friends and lovers, but she can be ruthless when the situations aquired it. Her bloodlines consists of a ferility goddess, she ablitity to heal, restore sidhe powers to there former glory, rewaken the sithen that was dormance, and recieve the chalice that hasn't been seen for long time through having sex w/ her.
- Doyle: The Queen's Darkness, Merry's main bodyguard and one of the fathers of her twins. He was crown King of Faerie w' Meredith, ability to become invisible in darkness by sleeping w/ Meredith, he performed assassianation if his Queen commands it, and he cares about Meredith.
- Frost: Killing Frost, Second in command of the bodyguards and one of the fathers of her twins. His former powers restored by Meredith, once considered rival to Doyle, but they are friends now, and once known as jack frost.
- Rhys: He's third in command of Meredith's bodyguards, works as private detective w'/ Meredith, and once worshipped as the God of death. One of the father's of her twins.
- Galen: The Green Man, one of the fathers of her twins. He has known Meredith since she was a child, dislike the demifey because he tortured by them as puinshment by Queen Andais, and restore to his powers by Meredith. He's nonviolent person, but fight anybody when the situation required of it.
- Mistral: Captain of the Queen's guards after Darkness decide to guard Meredith. He's called the Storm king and one of Merry's lovers.
- Barinthus: He's known as the King maker and once worship as God of Sea. He's a friend of Meredith's father.
- Royal: Demi-fey, through Merry's magic he gained wings
- Bittersweet: Demi-fey
- Lucy Tate: Detective that frequently requests Merry's help
- Sholto: King of the Sluagh and one of the fathers of Merry's twins.
- Julian: Add a description of this character.
- Jeremy
- Fear Dearg
- Gilda
- Robert
- O'Brian
- Saraid
- Adam
- Donal
- Steve
- Wright
- Wilson
- Brennan
- Carmichael
- Kitto: one of Merry's guards, half serpent-goblin, half sidhe.
- Adair
- Alice
- Hafwyn: a healer in Merry's service, formerly of Cel's guard and before that of Prince Essus' guard
- Dogmaela
- Cathbodua
- Hummer
- Eric
- Gran
- Constantine
- Maeve Reed
- Pendleton
- Liam
- Mannan Mac Lir
- Brii
- Patterson
Quotes edit
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“He held Sarai the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.”
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I knew how weak you could grow from lack of attention, until you began to look at strangers while the person who was supposed to love you neglected you. Humans saw it as a weakness on the part of the cheater, but I knew through my first fiancé that a person can leave a relationship in more ways than just walking away. You can leave your partner so bereft of attention that it’s like not being in love at all.
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I understood that you could die a little bit every day from lack of the right touch from the right person.
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One minute you think you have your life relatively under control, and then the next minute you realize that all that control was just an illusion.
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“It is always better to let petty kings keep their crowns until we want the crown and the head it sits upon.”
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Just because you start the day off with nightmares doesn’t mean you don’t still have to go to work. Sometimes being a responsible grown-up sucked a lot.
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“Some men are drawn to power, Merry, and some women are more queen without a crown than others are with one.”
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Evil comes in the face of those who are supposed to love and care for you, but they don’t. Evil comes with a slap, or a hand holding you underwater until you can’t breathe, and all the time her face is serene, not angry, not mad, because she believes that she has the right.”
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They were like any fanatic: the narrower your focus, the more devoted you could be.
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This was one battle I was not going to win, and sometimes wisdom is saving your energy for the battles you can win.
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“You know what they say. Never come between a woman and what she loves. Well, don’t threaten what I love, for I will move the Summerlands themselves to protect what is mine.” The Summerlands was one of our words for Heaven.
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First Sentence edit
The smell of Eucalyptus always made me think of Southern California, my home away from home; now it might forever be entwined with the scent, of blood.
Table of Contents edit
Chapters numbered One to Forty-Seven
Series & Lists edit
This is book 8 of 8 in Merry Gentry. (standard series)
Preceded by Swallowing Darkness.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Don Sipley (Cover Artist)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: December 8, 2009
ISBN: 978-0345495969
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: December 8, 2009
ISBN: 978-0345495969
Page Count: 352
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3558.A443357 D58 2009
- Dewey: 813.54
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