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A Kiss Of Shadows: (Merry Gentry 1) Paperback – 7 December 2001

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Edgy, erotic and dangerously exciting - the spellbinding new dark fantasy by the bestselling author of the 'Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter' series.

Laurell K. Hamilton's 'Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter' novels have established her as a force to be reckoned with. Her voice is fresh, her style sensual, her characters leap off the page and her blend of the contemporary and the supernatural is both original and exciting. Now, in A KISS OF SHADOWS, she introduces readers to an unforgettable new heroine- Meredith Gentry.A Los Angeles private investigator with a strange speciality - supernatural crime, Merry has an even stranger secret- she's a Faerie princess in hiding, and on the run from her own otherworldly realm. For her aunt, the malevolent Queen of Air and Darkness, has dispatched her chief bodyguard back to the mortal world to fetch Meredith back, whether she likes it or not. She is to be the pawn in a plot that will transform the future of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Her role- to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful - and immortal - men in the world of the Sidhe. Her reward- the crown. The penalty for refusal- death...Rich, sensual and full of earthly pleasures, dazzling magic and memorable characters, some as deadly as they are beautiful, A KISS OF SHADOWS is an unbridled tour-de-force of the imagination where folklore, myth and legend come together with thrilling, erotically-charged adventure.

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Publisher : BANTAM UK; 1st edition (7 December 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 528 pages
ISBN-10 : 0553813838
ISBN-13 : 978-0553813838
Dimensions : 10.6 x 3.2 x 17.8 cm

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A wonderful excursion into the magic of desire -- Alice Borchardt

As wild as the novel's premise is, memorable characters and wicked wit make is all delicious, ribald fun ― Publishers Weekly

An edgy story of sex, violence and magic that manages to be both disturbing and entertaining. Highly recommended ― Library Journal

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Edgy, erotic and dangerously exciting - the spellbinding new dark fantasy by the bestselling author of the 'Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter' series.

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Donela Perry

if you love Anita black series..then this is a treat

Reviewed in Australia on 19 June 2014

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I put off reading any as i didn't want Merry to have any effect on how much i enjoyed Anita , the i read this brought all of them within the week and had the luxury of reading all in three weeks ...and i was happy different never the same..but just as a complete world with all the things that make you forget the outside world for that space when you are in the book ..i recommend to any who love fantasy fiction to take a trip and see the magic.

As for the story line ...read a sample and trust you will enjoy

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Sally

Great start to a series

Reviewed in Australia on 22 September 2017

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Its refreshing to see an intricate story woven in a romance series, rather than a thinly veiled line between one sex scene to another. Looking forward to book 2!

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Layla

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Reviewed in Australia on 3 May 2017

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Genuinely enjoyed all aspects of the story from the characters to the imagery. Looking forward to the next installment of thr story

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Alt_kt

A kiss of Shadows

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2017

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I was very excited to read this book as i love Hamilton's Anita Blake series. However, i was slightly disappointed because i found it really hard to follow. If you don't have any knowledge of folklore, the fey or the seelie and unseelie court then this book is really hard to understand. I also really wasn't happy that within the first half of the book, the main character was sexual assaulted and it was kind of skimmed over. There was no emotional aftermath, no support for the police or her friends.
I don't think i'll carrying this series on, but i still think Hamilton is a genius writer... Anita Blake is the best book series i've ever read and that will never change for me!

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A book that got better as it went along

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2018

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I brought this on the back of the write up with no experience of Laurell's writing. And I have to say that at first this book was hard going. It took me over a week and several efforts to get past the first four or five chapters. However, once things started happened, and particularly when the Fae got involved and Merry returned to the Unsealie court the book clipped along and I was caught up in the story. Finishing it in a couple of days and late into the last night, I'm writing this at 1:30am after just finishing.
Once it got going the story is well written and captures your attention and imagination. The character are clever and believable. Merry is a good protagonist, likeable, nice without being weak or naive. The other far characters all are different enough to stand out in the mind. The action, mainly combat or political manoeuvring is well timed and we'll written. All in all I really enjoyed this, once I got into it.

Really exciting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2013

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I came across this series by accident. I just typed 'The Gentry' into my Kindle and up popped these 4 books. It was a delight to find more books about the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.

Merry or Meredith is in hiding from the Unseelie Queen Andais after running away from the Court where she had been subjected to countless assassinations. She is also a Sidhe Princess in her own right.

She is now working as a sort of P.I. When two women come into the office to say they had both been abused by the same man...and violently too, something starts to worry Merry. The women by the way are the mans Wife and his Mistress who have banded together to get him caught out.

Merry gets herself wired up and then goes to meet the man. She soons finds herself in his bedroom where he produces a bottle of oil...........this is no ordinary oil, it is magical oil and has been pinched from The Queen herself. Soon Merry is at the mans mercy and it is only when she looks into a mirror above the bed that she sees a phantom figure. She yells for help and suddenly a spider drops onto the man then more and more of them appear. Eventually all that is left of him is a pulped mess. Merry is still covered with the magical oil so anyone that touches her will want to bed her. She must get the oil off before the consequences become dire. Someone evidently wants Merry very dead.

She also comes into her powers when the hags attack her and she turns one of them inside out......she can't die so if Merry didn't hack her to death she would be forever trapped inside out......Merry finally hacks what is left of the hag to death.

When she gets an invitation to the Unseelie Court, she is first frightened then eager to find out what Andais wants from her.
She is incredibly surprised when the Queen tells her what it is she will do if Merry gets pregnant by one of the Court Ravens or Body Guards. Up until this point, all the Ravens have been under a Geas to not have sex with anyone. Now the Geas is lifted but only Merry can sleep with the Ravens or Body Guards. The race is now on to see who can produce an heir first, Andais's son Cel or Merry herself. She also is having to dodge Court assassins all the time with the help of 'The Queen's Darkness' and others of his kind.

This certainly isn't a children's book as there is sex in abundance.........if Merry was human I'd say she was a tart but as she is part of the Unseelie then sleeping with loads of men doesn't qualify her for that title. She has also made a treaty with the Goblins and now has little Keelin to look after as well.

Well written and thoroughly enjoyable. I have just bought book 2.

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Alicja

bit dissapointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2010

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I started the series as read previous L.Hamilton's books about Anita Blake. WAs hoping this will be something different. It is OK to read,entertaining in places, but again, the author puts too much attention to sex, bed etc instead of on some action. Some chapters drag endlessly and are only there so the author could describe the sex scenes again and again. Boring. The heroine has to have sex with everyone, almost every man, fay, goblin.... I thought it was supposed to be a detective story, more like Anita Blake,the beginning suggests athrilling story only to turn into little sex manual for faeries. Im not convinced I want to read teh rest of the series, I might give a try to another book about Meredith, but don't really expect a great deal......

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L Raynshaw

Merry Gentry series is just brilliant and Laurell K Hamilton never disappoints.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2018

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This is my third time reading the brilliant Meredith Gentry Series if fantasy books from Laurell K Hamilton.

The research is excellent, court intrigue completely intoxicating, the men, incredible, and the kingdom beautifully crafted.

Simply 10/10 writing from an incredible author

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