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| Title | : | Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8) |
| Author | : | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 333 pages |
| Published | : | November 24th 2009 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Fairies. Fae. Fiction |
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hardcover | Pages: 333 pages Rating: 4.05 | 23539 Users | 737 Reviews
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I'm not really sure why I read this series anymore. The actual mystery of the novel is shoved aside for the better part of the book to make way for arguing, sex, and pissing contests. And if it's not that, then the rest of the book is made up of hair and eye color descriptions for all the various characters. Hamilton's fascination with hair down to the ankles and with the varying heights of the characters is mind-boggling. She seems to spend more time thinking up these various combinations than actually working on the plot.Merry's decided she's going to be a detective now that she's been exiled to California. She gets called in to help the police with a case where faeries are being murdered and arranged and posed to look like pages out of a fairy tale book. Merry's men don't want her to get too involved since she's pregnant, but Merry is stubborn and wants to know who's killing her people. About 250 pages go by after this initial setup and we arrive at the conclusion of the story. The mystery is figured out and wrapped up within the last 30 pages or so. Just about everything that happens in between is either a rehash of old events, pissing contests between the men, or Merry running around trying not to get herself killed.
Doyle and Frost, Merry's two main men are little more than bodyguards in this book. She doesn't sleep with them and Frost barely says a word at all. Doyle's main phrase throughout the book is; "Once I was the Queen's Darkness ..." while Frost's phrase is; "I was once the Killing Frost ..." They both like to wax poetic on how badass they used to be but it just seems silly now. It's gotten to the point where I honestly like Sholto better, his character is more developed and he actually has a personality. Doyle and Frost seem castrated and I've grown bored with them.
My biggest problem with this book though is the repetition and constant explanations that are unnecessary and bog the book down. There are so many phrases and scenes in this book that feel lifted from the previous novels that at times it feels like Hamilton copied and pasted to fill up the pages. There would be times when someone would say or do something wrong and this would be pointed out to the reader and then someone would say, "what did I miss, why is that wrong?" and then it'd be explained.
Then, if things weren't being explained constantly, Merry was arguing with her men about who was in charge. And if Merry wasn't arguing about who was in charge then the men were arguing with each other. I don't know why Hamilton thinks this moves the plot along because it doesn't. It's frustrating to say the least.
The men Merry sleeps with in this book are mostly secondary characters and it's gotten to the point where it just doesn't make sense anymore. She claims to love Doyle and Frost as her main men but hardly spends any time with them. She's pregnant now so she doesn't have to whore around so much but she chooses to anyway and I don't see the reason for this other than Hamilton wanting to write all the different and strange sex scenes. I have to say that probably without the sex scenes this book would be even weaker than it was though.
This series has so much potential and each book it just seems to be wasted. The main mystery is forgotten for most of the book and then neatly wrapped up within the last few pages. Hamilton's writing suffers more and more with each book and she could really benefit from a new editor, or maybe even a break from writing all together. I'm mostly disappointed because I thought Swallowing Darkness was actually a step-up from the previous books, but now it seems like that was just an anomaly. I honestly don't know if Hamilton will ever change her writing though, because she does sell her books. I can hope though.
List Books To Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8)
| Original Title: | Divine Misdemeanors |
| ISBN: | 0345495969 (ISBN13: 9780345495969) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Merry Gentry #8 |
| Characters: | Doyle, Rhys, Meredith "Merry" Gentry, Sean Galen, Frost (Killing Frost), Mistral, Barinthus, Royal, Bittersweet, Sholto, Kitto |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Rating Appertaining To Books Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8)
Ratings: 4.05 From 23539 Users | 737 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books Divine Misdemeanors (Merry Gentry #8)
Hamilton has turned into such a lazy writer. This book definitely shows just how lazy she has gotten. There are whole passages of text that are repeated at the beginning and end of this book (completely unnecessary). She has characters explain things that readers already know or should be self-explanatory (also completely unnecessary). And it seems that Hamilton doesn't remember things that have happened in past books. Merry doesn't seem to remember things that I am pretty sure she wasSuper disappointed. This book, to me, went no where. I feel like I skipped half the book for all the damn details in looks and clothing and such. Anyway. I got through it. I will get through the others so I can be done with the series.
It's 4.5*I wish she would interrupt the plot less, the sex, we get it, it's important, but please don't fuck so much all the time all over the place *sigh*
I have had the same love-hate relationship with Meredith Gentry ever since Mistral's Kiss. After I read chapter 1 I thought it would be in keeping with the old times, an old crime scene, and some investigations. I should have known better.One of the things I hate about the writing style is that it assumes I am an idiot. For example, in one sentence Merry uses the term "The Summerland", who anybody with a fair hand of knowing myths knows would be equal to Paradise in terms of fae language.
This is probably my least favorite of the Merry Gentry novels so far, and my distaste is almost entirely due to what I see as some very awkward editing. I'm not talking about copyediting so much (there are sometimes scads of errors in possessive nouns in Hamilton's books), although at one point "destroy" showed up as "distroy" (how does that *happen*??)--it was more about the several times that I had to go back and re-read because something didn't quite make sense. There was an unclear
The murder mystery, I think, should've received more attention, although the 'themes' linking the victims together were interesting. The introduction of the Fairy Godmother and Fear Dearg had potential, but was similarly allowed to drift. As always, I did enjoy the personal interaction between all the fey; however, this book mostly seemed like one large interlude between the bloody action of the last and...what? Merry will no doubt be sucked back into the court life as both her aunt and uncle
This book is brought to you by the words, "Copy" and "Paste."Seriously, Hamilton has always been a lazy writer in desperate need of a thesaurus but this book really takes the prize. The EXACT SAME SENTENCES were featured over and over in every chapter. This book reverted to the "all boring sex scenes, no plot" problem she's had in other novels and it seemed like each sex scene was a template of the same descriptions, actions and words into which she simply changed the name of the male partner as
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