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    A Caress of Twilight

    Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    “I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne—if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.”

    After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And that’s just her day job…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612844
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    A Caress of Twilight
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    Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series. She lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic!
    • 3/5
      In her role as supernatural detective, Merry and her band of guards and lovers are faced with investigating mysterious mass deaths in California, despite resistance and prejudice from local authorities. In her role as would-be queen to the sidhe, she continues to investigate her convoluted and perilous political position, to nurture alliances, to consolidate her power base, and above all to try to get pregnant (which is, after all, the only way to actually become Queen and thus survive). I really like the Anita Blake series. I read this series because...well, it was there and there was no Anita Blakes while these were being written. I didn't dislike the series, I just became werry of the character of Merry. Okay - she was a fae Anita Blake.
    • 3/5
      A colorized taxonomy of the male fairies who regularly sleep with the heroine, mostly. There is a very thin story line that barely holds this together but it seems to be all about the sex, and of course the varying color schemes of the characters.
    • 5/5
      I love the series. I hate how the speaker pronounces names differently from book to book.
    • 4/5
      I really love the characters in this series merry's awesome
    • 5/5
      Here's the story so far: Fabulous faerie princess Merry, despite being fabulous and awesome and great and having the biggest boobs in the kingdom (not a joke), is hated by lots of other nasty faeries. Despite this key fact, her aunt, the Dark Queen of Faeries, says that she, Merry, can be queen if she can get pregnant. Merry is then given the exclusive right to have lots and lots and lots of unprotected, hot and dirty magical sex with the formerly celibate royal guard, all of whom fall in love with her and her fancy magic boobies. In each book, she gains an amazing new magic power, bangs another unbelievably gorgeous man or six, and reels giddily off to another exciting adventure, still unimpregnated.
    • 3/5
      A continuation of a series which is apparently about sex between different combinations of humans and/or faeries in the modern world. And somewhere amongst all that there is a plot about two characters vying for the faerie throne. Whichever one produces an heir first gets the job. But the plot development is dreadfully slow and is bogged down in idle chit-chat.
    • 4/5
      When reading this book the word 'mesmerizing' comes mind. All the men become more real to me, Merry, becomes more real too. As dangerous as their world is I find myself contemplating who and what I were to be if I lived in it. Fantastic and terrifying I'm sure. As are all the creatures, my poor golden and giving heart might burst along all those politics that Merry must deal with every day. Taranis is more terrifying than Andais because I believe he is loosing his grip on reality surrounded by all the lies both he and his subjects cling too. At least Andais is more true to herself, if not as delusional as the King Of Light. I do feel for her as her son was twisted before, yet what will he be when his punishment is over? And Merry, I thought her second hand of power was that of healing because she healed Roane and others, that must have been a secondary power as another more frightening power has arisen. So many terrifying powers are rising around Merry it makes me wonder if her birth wasn't a catalyst for change that even her father, Prince Essus, saw before all others and did his best to prepare her for her role. Only time shall tell. Again, I am glad I have this series another chance, I read it once in high school and I am finding I wasn't near ready for it then. I am now. I am now.
    • 3/5
      It has been a little while since I read this book but here is what I recall...

      I had a love hate relationship with this series. It was confused about if it wanted to be mainstream or erotic. Mostly Merry had loads of sex and the story fell to the wayside.

      I quit before I finished the whole series. But I did get quite a few books in so there must have been something drawing me back every time!
    • 1/5
      The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series.
    • 1/5
      The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series.
    • 2/5
      Having given up on Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, I figured I would give her Fae books a try. Unfortunately, A Caress of Twilight is no better than the Anita Blake novels. Just like her vampire books, this novel is oversexed for no particular reason. The story is weak and after about a dozen chapters, it was no longer capable of holding my interest.In this novel, Faerie princess Meredith Gentry, who has left the land of the Fae, and is our mortal world, is trying to give birth to a child and take her claim to the Unseelie throne. An exiled goddess with a dark secret is Meredith’s latest client. So much of the novel was about Faerie politics and what goes on in the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, and very little of it was interesting. This was a forgettable novel that I would recommend skipping.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 2/5
      Upon re-read, there was a bit more page flipping than book one. Merry has started to "school the boys" on how to be a good person, and that's always a bit of a yawn. Also, the police work in this book is a bit out of place. Did enjoy everyone's powers coming on line.
    • 1/5
      The first in this series was mildly interesting, enough so that I figured I'd see if this second book was better. Unfortunately, the cheesy sex scenes found in the first book were even worse in this second. This has to be the most godawful erotica? writing in the history of life. I didn't know whether to laugh or be offended. The writing is atrocious. I'm definitely done with this series.
    • 5/5
      Great book! It's book #2 in the Meredith Gentry series and we learn more about her and her abilities. I like the erotic antics, the intrigue between characters, and not being able to predict the story. I would definitely recommend this and am looking forward to #3!
    • 4/5
      I am glad I am reading this series each book gets better and you get more of the plot line. I love her work and writing.
    • 4/5
      A Caress of Twilight begins a few months after the events in A Kiss of Shadows. It is December, and Merry and the Sidhe warriors she has chosen as her lovers have returned to Los Angeles, California. Merry is approached by Maeve Reed, previously known as the Goddess Conchenn before her exile from the Seelie Court and now a famous Hollywood actress. Maeve asks Merry to perform a fertility rite that will permit her to have a child by her dying human husband. In return, she will tell the princess that the reason for her exile. Merry’s uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion shows new and disturbing interest in Merry and invites her to the Seelie Court. Meanwhile, the Nameless, a spell formed to hold all the wild magics of the faerie, attacks Maeve Reed's home. It is finally defeated by Merry and her companions, Merry herself showing for the first time her second Hand of Power―the Hand of Blood. The result of the destruction of the Nameless is the release of the magic which formed it. This magic transfers itself to the victors, who begin to exhibit unforeseen side effects.
    • 3/5
      This was a compelling enough read, but as it was coming to a close I felt as if there were very important plot points that Hamilton sort of just skimmed over instead of truly telling her reader about. Such as there being more mass murders. I understand that Doyle and the others wouldn't know about the first one in the civilian home, but they did know about the second because it had been on the news, but the reader wasn't told. Secondly, I felt that Maeve Reed's whole situation was sort of skimmed over. We meet her, she tells Merry her problem, then nothing till they are suddenly performing a fertility right. There was no explanation of how they got to that point. There are many other cases like this throughout the book. It is almost as if Hamilton invests so much energy talking about sex and going into minute detail about clothing and hair that her plot suffers. I guess some readers aren't reading these books for plot, but an attempt would be nice for the rest of us.
    • 3/5
      Just cleaning the rest of the Laurell K. Hamilton books out of my to-read list. This series is alright ... I don't like it as much as the Anita Blake series. This storyline in this book wrapped up a little too quickly for my tastes.
    • 2/5
      As I thought, it's another erotica series with a little adventure. I won't bother.Ms. Hamilton seems to want to be like Anne Rice when the latter wrote as A. N. Roquelaure...without the same level of writing talent and without knowing when enough is enough.
    • 5/5
      I love her books. I had tried to put these off for a while so i wouldn't run out, but having finished this one, all I want to do is read the rest of them! Hurry up and write, I'm going to catch up soon.
    • 5/5
      Laurell Hamilton's books tend to include a lot of sex, and a lot of violence. Often simultaneously. This one is no exception.Meridith, the half-human, half-fey, sometime private security expert, and princess of Faerie takes on a client. Maeve Reed, a famous Hollywood actress, has a tiny little secret - she's a goddess - and a very large problem: she wants to get pregnant, but doing so makes her a target of the Seelie court's ruler.Nothing is ever simple, and Merry and her band of faerie warriors aren't in for an easy time of it. Protecting Maeve just may prove to be the simple part.A good solid second installment.
    • 4/5
      An extremely lusty tale of a partial fairy who has to claim her rightful inheritance. I'm not usually into this sort of reading, but Hamilton has a way of keeping it interesting. And the sex is pretty good, too.
    • 3/5
      I would like a little more story with my sex.
    • 2/5
      I think by the time I got to this novel, I was already tired of the "harem" theme in Hamilton's works. I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as the first novel, and I probably won't ever reread it again. I'm not even sure I can remember all that happened in this book.
    • 3/5
      Another fun, fluffy read in the Merry Gentry series.
    • 3/5
      A continuation of a series which is apparently about sex between different combinations of humans and/or faeries in the modern world. And somewhere amongst all that there is a plot about two characters vying for the faerie throne. Whichever one produces an heir first gets the job. But the plot development is dreadfully slow and is bogged down in idle chit-chat.
    • 4/5
      A great second book to a great new series!! I love these faerie men :)
    • 5/5
      If you like your gothic romance mixed with your "smut" books - you'll like Laurell K. Hamilton's Gentry series. The sex scenes are spectacular. What's great is there's even a plot. Got to like that.
    • 5/5
      Merry is back working for the Grey Detective Agency in L.A. along with some of her guards. Her one bedroom apartment is too small for the five guards plus Kitto, the small snake goblin she’s taken on for six months in order to have the goblins as allies. It’s difficult to find a place they can afford for so many people.Maeve Reed, a prominent Hollywood actress for fifty years and a former goddess of the Seelie Court, wants a favor from Merry, which she’ll only agree to if Maeve will share the secret to why she was banished, and the reason could rock the balance of power.Politics and the mystery of what has been unleashed by the sidhe and how to stop it take up the majority of this second story. Merry has to negotiate with the demi-fey, a number of members from the Seelie Court as well as her aunt. Each of the different courts and types of fae has their own cultures and rules. And because she’s trying to get pregnant and keep all of the guards—who’d been forced to be celibate under their queen—happy, sex is a common activity. Sex with Doyle for the first time is especially eventful.Action, humor, mystery, politics and sex round out this story that fit a number of genres. We learn more about the guards and the world of the fae. A great job at character and world building.