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Title: Seduced By Moonlight by LAURELL K. HAMILTON ISBN: 0-345-44356-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (152 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Unfulfilling
Comment: Meredith NicEssus is still trying to get pregnant in order to win the Unseelie crown. A half-mortal faerie princess, Merry has been copulating with six gorgeous guards for several months, and has even helped impregnate another member of the Sidhe with a fertility ritual, but she still hasn't conceived. Which is a really bad thing because if her co-heir cousin Cel gets out of prison and produces a child first, he becomes the monarch of the dark fey.

To complicate matters, a creature Merry recently killed left a deposit of magic inside of her. Now she has the ability to grant powers, and even return deity status to former gods. She's also brokered a deal to continue her alliance with the goblin king. He'll remain her ally if she has sex or shares blood with all of his kingdom's Sidhe half-breeds and awakens their faerie powers. Such an alliance could prove crucial when Cel is released, but it also means Merry will be a busy girl in the bedroom.

Doyle, Frost, Galen, Rhys, Nicca and Kitto have all returned to be the king of Princess Merry's world. The first half of this book revolves around having sex, thinking about sex, talking about sex and then having some more sex. When her aunt, the wicked Queen of Air and Darkness, demands Merry's return to the Unseelie Court, violence and debauchery ensue.

In the first two books of this series, Merry was an intriguing character, a multifaceted woman trying to balance her mortal life as a private investigator with her royal faerie ties. Now she's an unemployed vessel of power and a political prostitute. For someone whose only occupation is having sex, Merry is entirely devoid of passion.

Laurell K. Hamilton's writing continues to be evocative, and her world-building skills are top-notch. But she fails to give the reader a story worthy of her characters. Nonexistent plotting, dull dialogue, repetitive body part descriptions and disappointing "power" plays transformed "Seduced by Moonlight" from a highly anticipated novel into barely readable soft porn.

--Previously appeared in The Science Fiction Romance Newsletter

Rating: 2
Summary: Taken to extremes, but still...
Comment: Hooooh-boy. What a waste of money.

SBM is without a doubt the worst in the series. And the series was mediocre to begin with.

First off... will someone please inform Ms. LKH that the repetitive descriptions to make the book longer really aren't necessary? PLEASE? I like the little details. They make the characters fun. But I really don't need little details about everything!

Secondly... yes, Merry is on the quest to become pregant, take the throne, yadda, yadda, yadda. Enough with the sex already. It's not titillating, it's not intersting, it's not exciting. It's boring. One or two passionate encounters per novel...? I can definitely deal. I cannot deal with the one or two sexual encounters per chapter! Much like the Anita Blake series, LKH's writing is quickly moving from sci-fi into a really bad mix of sci-fi and soft-core porn. And it's not even interesting. It's kinda like the "Witchcraft" films... a touch of plot and dialogue, a lot of sex, a little bit of plot and dialogue, lots of sex, wash, rinse, and repeat. It's dull. Yet another case of taking something to the extreme and making it boring.

Thirdly... the men. Much like Anita Blake, every major male character has to at least be in lust with Merry, with the possible exception of two. Wow. Gee, just like Anita! This would be a lot more tolerable if she would do us all a favor and just stick with a few good men, maybe just Doyle, Frost, Rhys, and Galen. Who needs the rest of them? Again... exteremes convolute the plot to boredom.

There are some good points, really. I truly enjoy the political machinations, especially Merry's ability to take everything she has learned from her father and the "real" world, and how she brings it into the world of the Sidhe. I find the powers to be very creative. The major fight scene, for want of a better phrase, was LKH at her best! There really is potential here, folks. Too bad most of the good is completely overshadowed by the fact that the majority of the book is boring, poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly conceived.

Rating: 4
Summary: NC - 17
Comment: On the positive side, Merry is still alive, despite the best efforts of her Unseelie enemies. On the other side, despite her and her macho harem's best work, she is not pregnant. Other things are happening though. Merry's personal magic is growing by leaps and bounds, and her touch is enough to bring back powers others have lost, and then some. Even that does not endear her to the sidhe who see her as a miserable half breed, or worse. Someone is willing to risk the anger of the Queen of Air and Darkness to assassinate the royal heir. They are even willing to bespell the queen herself. When Merry and Auntie Dearest lay aside past squabbles to unite against the enemy for a magical showdown, the duel is one well worth the price of admission.

**** Merry Gentry is much more intense than the Anita Blake books. Despite having to rely on her guards for protection, Merry does not appear at all weak. At times, your brain will be stretched, trying to picture the fantastic creatures invented for the series, but at their hearts, even the strangest displays extremely human emotions that you can recognize. Be advised, you need to A. refresh your memory on who's who or what in the prior books as the cast continually expands and B. it's definitely NC 17. ****

Reviewed by Amanda Killgore for Huntress Reviews.

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