Reviews for Seduced by moonlight

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Last seen in A Caress of Twilight (2002), faerie princess Meredith NicEssus is still trying to conceive an heir so that she, and not her sadistic cousin Cel, can claim the Unseelie throne from her aunt, Andais. Luckily, Meredith has a bevy of buff bodyguards at her disposal, and the one who gets her pregnant will be king. She is also trying to broker the continuation of an alliance between the Unseelie people and the goblins, but the goblin king isn't cutting her many breaks. Her aunt is continuing to put increasing amounts of pressure on her, throwing more and more attractive men at her, hoping she'll produce that much-desired heir. Meredith journeys to her aunt's court, where a horrendous shock awaits her. Full of steamy sex scenes but a little light on plot, Seduced by Moonlight doesn't really pick up until Meredith heads to the Unseelie court. Despite the shortcomings, devoted Hamilton fans will enjoy the characters' connections and the rich, imaginative world they inhabit. --Kristine Huntley Copyright 2004 Booklist


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Meredith Gentry, a mortal whose faerie blood has embroiled her in a race to produce the next heir to the throne of the Unseelie sidhe, finds that she constantly walks a fine line between her duty to her aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, and her own desire for a "normal" life. Filled with wild magic and given the gift to transform common faeries into noble sidhe, Meredith also discovers that she possesses other, heretofore unknown magic powers that seem to herald a return of the old gods of the sidhe. The third installment in Hamilton's Meredith Gentry novels (after A Kiss of Shadows and A Caress of Twilight) contains the same sultry eroticism while deepening the interrelationships among the principal characters. Hamilton's compelling storytelling makes this a good choice for libraries owning the series and for fans of adult fantasy tinged with horror. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/03.] (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Meredith Gentry, half-mortal Sidhe princess, is engaged in a contest to produce a child before her cousin Prince Cel does. The stakes are high: the winner will be heir to Queen Andais and the throne of the Unseelie Court. A powerful artifact mysteriously appears, and Merry becomes a trigger for the goddess Danu to restore long-lost powers of Celtic godhood to any Sidhe who has sex with Merry. In addition to sex, there is interminable conversation and explication about who, where, why, and how to have sex. Almost no plot movement takes place until late in the book, when situations at the court become graphically violent. Any listener unfamiliar with the two earlier episodes in this series may be confused, while fans might be impatient with the lengthy explanations. Hamilton does provide sensual erotica, faultlessly performed by Laural Merlington. Recommended only for large collections that include adult material.-Janet Martin, FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Pinehurst, NC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


Kirkus
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Third entry in Hamilton's series about p.i. /Faerie Princess Meredith Gentry. Meredith, she of the moonlight skin and blood-auburn hair, handles supernatural cases for the Grey Detective Agency while involved in endless faerie court politics. As we learned in A Caress of Shadows (2002), the now-mortal Meredith will replace her aunt as the Queen of Air and Darkness only if she becomes pregnant, a state she chases hard with the help of her many bodyguards and lovers, including thousand-year-old assassin Doyle, a celibate creature of absolute blackness and a member of the Queen's Ravens. But Prince Cel hopes to assassinate her and become ruler himself by providing an heir before Meredith can deliver a child. The series background is Hollywood, whose tabloid media and paparazzi pursue Meredith for photo ops. Merry first comes up against Siun, a nightmarish bloated black spider the size of a large German shepherd, with eyes everywhere, a head, hands, and breasts. Then Maeve Reed, the golden goddess of Hollywood, who looks 20 but has been top star for 50 years, tries to seduce her. Can Merry's ultimate orgasmic lovemaking reawaken Maeve's true godhead of lost power? Can Merry's body return his lost godhead to oceanic Barinthus? Will she sink into Adair and into "the power that lay in the muscles and meat of him"? Given all the rolling around beforehand, it seems only right that at this novel's climax, Meredith finds herself abed with 16 males. Steamy embraces wispily laced together by moonlit shadow-webbing. Copyright ŠKirkus Reviews, used with permission.


Publishers Weekly
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Considering all the complications, sexual and otherwise, that Merry Gentry, heir to the faerie throne, endured in A Kiss of Shadows (2000) and A Caress of Shadows (2002), it's no surprise to find the start of Hamilton's third book in her erotic fantasy series weighed down by attempts to conversationally recap earlier convolutions. Even readers of the first two books might have problems sorting out exactly why Merry is messing with the goblin king via magic mirror. Though the author maintains interest through such devices as an imaginative sex scene involving Merry, two of her sidhe studs and a doll-sized, winged, blood-sucking demi-fey, it takes a milieu switch from L.A. to St. Louis and the Unseelie court for the plot to take off and become a page turner. Merry confronts faerie politics that make Machiavelli look like a rookie, while her aunt's sadistic madness leads to what must rank as one of the bloodier scenes of fictional slaughter. Since Merry's previous role as a private eye has almost completely disappeared, nefarious deeds require magic to solve rather than detection. Hamilton's trademark mix of the personal and emotional along with the sexual will as usual delight her fans. Add yet another tour de force ending, a new final total of 16 lustful sidhe male immortals with whom to couple (or triple or...), and a fair future is assured for Merry for at least another few books. (Feb. 3) FYI: Hamilton is also the author of the bestselling Anita Blake vampire series (Cerulean Sins, etc.). (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved


Library Journal
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The popular series about Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private investigator and faerie princess, continues with her evil aunt's efforts to assure that Merry has a child. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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