Archive for February 28th, 2008
| For those of you familiar with Ms. Hamiliton’s Meridith Gentry, Fairie Princess series, I’m sure you’ll enjoy her newest foray into the world of the modern fairie race. The story is a modern day fairytale with all the darkness it implies. Meridith, call me Merry, is modern fey royalty. A sidhe in a world of fairyphiles who watch the doings of the Shining Ones with intrest bordering obsession. Merry has human blood, as well as high court sidhe, both Seelie and Unseelie and to top things off, she also carries "lesser fey" blood from her brownie grandmother’s time with Uar the Cruel. Both monarchs of the Seelie and Unseelie court tried to kill her when they discovered she was "weaker" than the typical sidhe, a mortal in a seemingly perfect world of immortal magic users. But that’s the least of the high court sidhe problems… they aren’t quite as mortal as they used to be and to top it off, fertility amoung them drops lower and lower with each passing season.
By this point in the series, the race for Merry to prove her fertility is well underway. Not only is she making love to most of her Ravens, noble guards of the court whose sole purpose is to both guard and breed Merry’s royal line. Queen Andais, a sexual sadist and former battle goddess, issued an ultimatum. Whoever produces a pregnancy first takes the Unseelie throne, pitting Merry and her Raven lovers against a decadent, depraved necropheliac, Andais’s son Cel who is also rumored to be infertile. Not only that, in earlier books he’s been implicated in drugging humans to drain their magical energy, worse yet, he set himself up as a god, violating the very treaty that keeps the Courts safe in the US, the last country that would take them in.
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