I Read Books: A Caress of Twilight
In A Kiss of Shadows, Merry Gentry, magic private investigator in Los Angeles was outed as the missing American Fairy Princess. Her aunt, the Queen of the Unseelie court, made her co-heir with her son Cel. The sidhe are notoriously infertile, so the first to produce a child will become the new king or queen. Merry is sent back to LA with a bunch of hunky male elf bodyguards, and is trying to get up the spout quickly, as her life will be worth nothing if Cel becomes king.
Complicating things is that she’s trying to maintain a household of about half a dozen on her PI salary, there are weird murders that point to a sidhe origin, a cop holds a grudge against her, the King of the Seelie court is manoeuvring and an exiled sidhe who has been the queen of Hollywood for the last fifty years wants a magical favour and is offering vital yet dangerous information in return.
If there’s a major problem with this it’s that every scene takes several pages of explaining things, sometimes a thousand years of fey history. Some of this is good, excellent even, but often I found myself, for example, reading about the court of the Demi-fey before Merry calls up their queen, and then their conversation gets interrupted with Merry’s thoughts on what is going on, following which she then explains what has happened to other characters. I can’t help thinking that this could have been trimmed without losing too much.
There are several extended sex scenes, blood drinking scenes and fights. Also long, loving descriptions of clothes, hair and eyes.
Read This: For some supernatural plotting, shagging and occasionally crime solving action
Don’t Read This: If you want a fast moving and also unsexy story
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