Rating: 
Summary: NC - 17
Review: On the positive side, Merry is still alive, despite the best efforts of her Unseelie enemies. On the other side, despite her and her macho harem's best work, she is not pregnant. Other things are happening though. Merry's personal magic is growing by leaps and bounds, and her touch is enough to bring back powers others have lost, and then some. Even that does not endear her to the sidhe who see her as a miserable half breed, or worse. Someone is willing to risk the anger of the Queen of Air and Darkness to assassinate the royal heir. They are even willing to bespell the queen herself. When Merry and Auntie Dearest lay aside past squabbles to unite against the enemy for a magical showdown, the duel is one well worth the price of admission. **** Merry Gentry is much more intense than the Anita Blake books. Despite having to rely on her guards for protection, Merry does not appear at all weak. At times, your brain will be stretched, trying to picture the fantastic creatures invented for the series, but at their hearts, even the strangest displays extremely human emotions that you can recognize. Be advised, you need to A. refresh your memory on who's who or what in the prior books as the cast continually expands and B. it's definitely NC 17. **** Reviewed by Amanda Killgore for Huntress Reviews.
Rating: 
Summary: Unfulfilling
Review: Meredith NicEssus is still trying to get pregnant in order to win the Unseelie crown. A half-mortal faerie princess, Merry has been copulating with six gorgeous guards for several months, and has even helped impregnate another member of the Sidhe with a fertility ritual, but she still hasn't conceived. Which is a really bad thing because if her co-heir cousin Cel gets out of prison and produces a child first, he becomes the monarch of the dark fey. To complicate matters, a creature Merry recently killed left a deposit of magic inside of her. Now she has the ability to grant powers, and even return deity status to former gods. She's also brokered a deal to continue her alliance with the goblin king. He'll remain her ally if she has sex or shares blood with all of his kingdom's Sidhe half-breeds and awakens their faerie powers. Such an alliance could prove crucial when Cel is released, but it also means Merry will be a busy girl in the bedroom. Doyle, Frost, Galen, Rhys, Nicca and Kitto have all returned to be the king of Princess Merry's world. The first half of this book revolves around having sex, thinking about sex, talking about sex and then having some more sex. When her aunt, the wicked Queen of Air and Darkness, demands Merry's return to the Unseelie Court, violence and debauchery ensue. In the first two books of this series, Merry was an intriguing character, a multifaceted woman trying to balance her mortal life as a private investigator with her royal faerie ties. Now she's an unemployed vessel of power and a political prostitute. For someone whose only occupation is having sex, Merry is entirely devoid of passion. Laurell K. Hamilton's writing continues to be evocative, and her world-building skills are top-notch. But she fails to give the reader a story worthy of her characters. Nonexistent plotting, dull dialogue, repetitive body part descriptions and disappointing "power" plays transformed "Seduced by Moonlight" from a highly anticipated novel into barely readable soft porn. --Previously appeared in The Science Fiction Romance Newsletter
Rating:
Summary: It's like soft-porn! Except worse!
Review: Out of all LAURELL K. HAMILTON's books, this is by far the worst. It took me almost two weeks to read this book becuase I kept wanting to put it down and read something with a little more...plot. The story basically follows along the same lines as the last two in this series did. Princess Meredith must get pregnant and beat her cousin Cel in order for her to win the throne. So, of course, she starts sleeping with everything -including demin-gods and goblins- in sight (who all just HAPPEN to be lusting after her). Sounds like fun, right? Wrong. There's lots and lots of sex. Over described, BORING sex that makes you wish someone would throw Ms Hamilton's theasaurus out the window and burn it. Although, to look on the bright side, I'm sure her writing cant get any worse. Or at least, I hope it cant.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed!
Review: Try as I might I couldn't finish reading this book. The whole thing was shallow and filled with one empty sex scene after another. I imagine this is how a book of pornography would read. I own every single Anita Blake novel but I am very leary of buying the next one due out. Especially judging by this effort and by some of the most recent additions to the Blake series.
Rating: 
Summary: Did I miss something?
Review: Being a big LKH fan, I thought that I would never say anything bad about her books, I am on that will stay up all night just to finish one of her books but with this one, I found that I got lost some where back in day one. I put this book down and had to force myself to finish it. I thought that when you set a direction in your book, like going to the seelie court... you go there. It was like watching Lord of the Rings part one... and they go over the mountain, with nothing happening. I know that I will continue reading her novels to see what happens, but I was not impressed with this one.
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Summary: Seduced by what?
Review: When I began to read the Anita Blake novels, Ms. Hamilton added a fan. She did not hit you over the head with sex. In the Meredith Gentry novels she not only hits you over the head she beats you down with sex. In the Anita Blake novels we were asked to believe that a sexual act did not occur until the sixth book, while with the Meredith Gentry novels we are told that sex is what it's all about. I'm a big fan of the Anita Blake novels and I've only just managed to read the Meredith Gentry novels. I have to say that there is no seduction in any of the Meredith gentry novels. The title of the book is certainly misleading, there is no seduction involved. Outright sex is not seduction, nor could the overt combination of violence and sex be considered seduction.
I hope that LKH will get it together and begin to write this series of books with a modicum of her God Given talent, because I'm slightly disappointed in the content of this series of novels; however some of the soft porn magazines may be interested in printing an edited version of these stories.
I hope that if the series continues LKH can keep her fan base. This has been a disappointing series to say the least. Meredith Gentry certainly has some qualities that are admirable and could make for good reading, but LKH has not made anything of these qualities. She doesn't attempt to make Meredith a smart woman, just one that is obsessed with sex and violence. What's another bimbo anyway?
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Summary: Let's just say..
Review: Let's just say LKH has added yet another successful book and enchanting storyline to her list. This book was absolutely wonderful and just in line with all the others by her. She's a wonderful author and this and all her other books leave you hungry for more! I can't wait 'til the next one!! LKH always delivers and I know from the first moment I pick up the book and start to read I'm in for a sensual, action-packed, romantic, keep-you-on-the-edge of your seat ride! Soooo, LKH, what's next???
Rating:
Summary: NOT LONG ENOUGH
Review: I know there were a lot of bad reviews out there, but for me, I found the book exactly how I expected it to be going on the last two.
Come on everyone, Merry Gentry is all about sex, if you didn't like the first in the series why bother reading the other two. Having had read all LK's books I have found she doesn't get tamer in each book, she gets more raunchier!!!
Anyway my only cripe is it was too short, could have had another 300 pages at least.
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Summary: FROST FOR KING!!
Review: No matter what anyone says about this book is the best out of the series so far lets see if she can top this one! FROST FOR KING!!(even though he pouts alot!!!)
Rating:
Summary: A Sensual Slide..
Review: Luscious! Beautiful! Vivid! A taste of Laurell K.'s dedication to the sensuous. As the third book in a graphic and captivating Fey series, she definitely makes the reader look forward to a further play on the senses. I look forward to her next presentation! Way to go LKH!
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