Review: A Shiver of Light

A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

1.5 Stars

This review is from: A Shiver of Light (A Merry Gentry Novel) (Kindle Edition)
Edited for various typos made while in the heat of the moment!

Please forgive my ramble for that is what this is and less a review -I find that my review is written more like this book was and less like a proper review!

Sooo...we waited 5 years for *this*?

A recap of the story with no spoilers ------------------------------->

Discussions of past books...blah,blah,blah.

Discusses the entourages clothing and appearance.

Have babies.
More inappropriate talk about the men.

Some action.
More recap, re-hash, filler, introspective depressing filler.

Some interesting bits with Taranis and the Andais that never get built on.

Being set up as a Deity - again never gets expanded on---Oh and more re-hash.

A death, a fight, some dream leaping/visiting and questioning of mortality--- yet MORE filler and repetitiveness.

The end. ------------------------->

Annoying parts? Aside from the fact that this book was filled to the covers with c r a p --- there was actually some interesting parts, unfortunately, they had not been expanded on to make a fresh new book. The interesting and plot building parts seem to be brushed under the carpet and we the readers are left wondering what the heck we waited.

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The death was supposed to be horrific, but it just left me with a 'so what' sort of feeling, I didn't feel horror or regret and I should have, It just wasn't written for me to actually 'feel it'.

The interesting bits with the Queen were perfect and there should have been more.

Merry bringing mortality to Fairy seems to be an unwise addition to this story - a better plot would have been the Fae and all its representatives should have brought immortality to Merry.

Could the third baby possibly the King?

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Merry should have taken care of the King the whole way, not just as far s she took it. Unfortunately for us this leaves the option open for Ms. Hamilton to be repetitive with her next book-repeating (beating dead horses) anything that Taranis ever did to our poor Merry- If I had read one more time how she was beaten at the Shining Court by the King - I would have pulled my own eyes out!

This is the perfect book for the first time reader who has not read the first books since everything will be totally fresh for you -for us long-time readers...be ready to beat yourself over the head to keep yourself awake long enough to finish.

Also be prepared for nothing really new, or eye-opening.

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