Sage Fire Reviews

A Lick of Frost

Long Live the Heir!

A sudden loss for Princess Merideth's voracious appetite in sex, but an increase in intesity when she does get aroused.  A constant case of the sniffles, and the inability to keep food from turning her stomach.  If she weren't so occupied in trying to fend of the unwanted advanced of the king of the Bright Court; she might figure it all out.

Synopsis: 

First glances at this book will be deceiving.  Princess Merideth is not running from sexcapade to multi-partner sex.  She has little sexual appetite at all.  The hallmark scion of this series not behaving in the manner we all expect?

Slowly, almost painfully, the reader is lead from one obvious clue to the next, until even the most dense grey matter understands Princess Merideth finally has her wish.

But fending off the king of the Bright Court, may cost her more in terms of the elves she loves than even she can handle.

Impression:

Long time readers of this series, will be disappointed.  We have come to crave the intensity which the author knocks us over onto our backs and has her wanton sexual way with us, while we scream for more.  Its gone, dissapated, and a shadow of its former self.

The underlieing story of Princess Merideth's tighrope walk between the bright and dark courts of the elves is coming unravelled as well.  The wild magic has created for her their own underhill seperate from the others at Maven's house.

Combine this with the loss of major characters in the story line, and the book will urge itself to be put down.  It deserves to have its own soft cover printing merely to be kept in line with the rest of the series.  It is doubtful it will make it.

RATING:  6 Campfires

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Mature Fantasy readers, broad genre romance readers, and erotica readers, over the age of 17.

Author's credentials:

Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American horror, magic, fantasy, erotica and romance writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry (her mother died in 1969). Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion (now Indiana Wesleyan University), a Christian college in Indiana.

Today Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri.

Her principal work is the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, published by Penguin Group (USA), originally under their Ace Books imprint and now under Berkley Books. In 2000, she branched out and started the new Merry Gentry series about a faerie princess turned private investigator.

Reviewer & reviewer credentials:

MD Johnson is a mountain northwest regional -- freelance author, living in Payette, Idaho.

His writing interests include poetry, romance, westerns, science fiction, travel, and history. His work has appeared in a diverse range of publications including True Romance and Ballyhoo Stories.

In 2007 he bacme an EPIC author and he has republished the 1935 western classic historical novel, “The Bitterroot Trail” as the anthologist. http://thebitterroottrail.pencraft.biz 

Mr. Johnson also runs a book review web site, Sage Fire Reviews, http://sagefire.pencraft.biz . Mr Johnson specializes in small press editions which include multi-format e-books in the genres above. In early 2008, Mr. Johnson was nominated and accepted membership into the National Book Critics Circle.

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