I Read Books: A Stroke Of Midnight
This novel takes places over one evening shortly after the ending of the previous one in the series. Merry Gentry holds a press conference inside the fairy mound of the Unseelie court. Unfortunately one of the journalists gets lost from the group and is killed. Magic has previously failed to track down killers so she decides to bring in forensic experts.
Every time she tries to go somewhere she’s interrupted by a new magical experience, her aunt the queen demanding she have sex with someone, someone being attacked or the arrival of a new character who needs to have their appearance, demeanour, magical powers, position in the complex politics of faerie and their history with Merry explained.
It rattles fairly quickly. But Merry keeps getting distracted from solving the crime by a magical event that causes one or more the men to have to explain how that effects them which causes someone to make a complaint or demand, so the magic or politics have to be explained. The fairy mound is doing weird things, including to time, possibly at the carelessly expressed wishes of Merry.
It’s an exhausting read and where I dropped out of the series, for now at least.
Read This: If you’re still into the magic, politics and magical/political sex/blood-letting with the hot men of the series
Don’t Read This: If this whole urban fantasy thing sounds overdone.
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