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ice_of_dreamsThe book I've been waiting for for a year has its ups downs and curveballs. Spoilers up ahead.
What I liked about this book is that there was action a whole lot of the way. A good deal of predictions came true, but not all of them. You get answers in this book, because obviously it's the final book in the series, unless someone higher up decides to milk it for all its worth and have a couple more in the future. But from the way the author wrote it out in the blod in the past, she was tired of writing of the series anyway, so yay for anita fans, probably more anita blake to churn out.
You get to answer in this book who gets to take the Unseelie sithen, you get the answer of will Frost come back. You get the answer of who killed Essus. For Doyle fans, there was an almost sex moment with him, interrupted viciously by a lot of talk between other people and Mistral's hurt feelings. I know, the world ends. NO the book didn't turn out like Mistral's Kiss, there was a lot of almost dying that it tended to get repetitive after a while.
I did not get to see more of Doyle's past, which was a bummer. Because all of the plot progression was crammed into one book and recap was crammed into chapter one. Honestly. You could not read chapter one if you wanted to. I would turn to fanfics except LKH has forbidden that avenue of entertainment due to weird fanfic world politics.
I need to read the entire series again, especially since I believe the entire Doyle-Merry thing was too rushed. Hey, I love the guy, just not the way it was executed. He was Merry's first guard, then in book two he didn't trust her, in book three he showed her grudging respect and wham bam in book five and six, they were in love and in seven they were cuddling. Honestly, it was strange to read the darkness in book 7 cuddling. Utterly strange but lovely because I liked him a lot anwyway.
I would have loved to see how this would have proceeded up to the point of birthing the twins but it's pouintless now. Unless we watch a series of murders and the guards scuttling around investigating, much like most paranormal series now, hwich I think was never the point of Meredith Gentry, even though she was a PI.
Meredith, Princess but never Queen.
*sigh* the world turns.
What I liked about this book is that there was action a whole lot of the way. A good deal of predictions came true, but not all of them. You get answers in this book, because obviously it's the final book in the series, unless someone higher up decides to milk it for all its worth and have a couple more in the future. But from the way the author wrote it out in the blod in the past, she was tired of writing of the series anyway, so yay for anita fans, probably more anita blake to churn out.
You get to answer in this book who gets to take the Unseelie sithen, you get the answer of will Frost come back. You get the answer of who killed Essus. For Doyle fans, there was an almost sex moment with him, interrupted viciously by a lot of talk between other people and Mistral's hurt feelings. I know, the world ends. NO the book didn't turn out like Mistral's Kiss, there was a lot of almost dying that it tended to get repetitive after a while.
I did not get to see more of Doyle's past, which was a bummer. Because all of the plot progression was crammed into one book and recap was crammed into chapter one. Honestly. You could not read chapter one if you wanted to. I would turn to fanfics except LKH has forbidden that avenue of entertainment due to weird fanfic world politics.
I need to read the entire series again, especially since I believe the entire Doyle-Merry thing was too rushed. Hey, I love the guy, just not the way it was executed. He was Merry's first guard, then in book two he didn't trust her, in book three he showed her grudging respect and wham bam in book five and six, they were in love and in seven they were cuddling. Honestly, it was strange to read the darkness in book 7 cuddling. Utterly strange but lovely because I liked him a lot anwyway.
I would have loved to see how this would have proceeded up to the point of birthing the twins but it's pouintless now. Unless we watch a series of murders and the guards scuttling around investigating, much like most paranormal series now, hwich I think was never the point of Meredith Gentry, even though she was a PI.
Meredith, Princess but never Queen.
*sigh* the world turns.
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Date: 2008-11-08 11:23 pm (UTC)LKH has already posted on her official blog that this is NOT the last Merry book. She is pretty much going to be telling the tale including (argh) details of the ongoing (spoiler alert for lick of frost) pregnancy. I think she wrote the story like she originally planned so it reads like it is the last book. Sort of like Obsidian Butterfly. It originally was going to be the last book in the Anita series until she got her new book contract. Both series are selling well that she isn't going to stop. www.laurellkhamilton.org
Copy and pasted from her november 6th blog:
"SWALLOWING DARKNESS is not, repeat, is not, the last Merry book. I am still under contract for more, for one thing. For another, I still have ideas with the characters and the world. Besides, don’t we all want to see Merry through to the birth of the twins. Unlike some writers, I don’t skip a lot of time in my books, so we’re going to get to see pediatrician appointments, and the whole nine yards of pregnancy. Just because you’re a fairie princess doesn’t mean you get a skip on any of that. Besides, with the interesting genetics of the fathers, I’m kind of curious to see who the twins take after. "
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Date: 2008-11-12 09:26 pm (UTC)But sheesh... if it wasn't going to be the last book in the series it shouldn't have ended with "I finally get my happily-ever-after." Because damnit, that's the way the series is supposed to end ;p Argh. Becuase you don't start a theme of a book as a fairy tale with a fairy princess and not end it with something like that.
I had lots of sqealable scenes in the entire book, which I raed through too fast and didn't re-read again (yet) because I was semi-depressed that it was ending. I remembered on some level that there was a contract for more, but thought that LKH decided to go against contract for creativity, but now I guess I know that isn't the case with her.
SPOILERS...
Besides how many times could I hold my breath over someone getting crowned king, because I knew there were going to be many kings anyway. And how many times was I allowed to frown over the fact that Darkness was almost killed again, and that most of the guard was resurrected again? I suddenly think that LKH is such a sneaky sneaky sneaky woman for telling everyone that someone DIES in the book. She had been hinting at grandma, but darn it, everytime magic falls one of the guards, I just end up thinking that they're next. ... And then she pulls out the resurrection card. That is one cheat I can't seem to get over.
The entire book had several repetitive scenes which had me groaning, and sometimes the talk in-between sex just gets me.
Darkness FINALLY gets room time and Mistral has to start pouting thereby ruining the entire mood, and when they start at it again, they simply have to start running out of the room again because, hey politics needs to be attended to. Heavy frowning here ensues.
Now it gets really interesting. How the hell will the books pan out since there's no more heir politics in it? It might devolve to just a sexfest, but here's hoping.
Argh. What I need is the next book in the Fever series. Haha. That should tide me over til the next... I dunno Anne Bishop release. I just finished 9 books of Harry Dresden and am in the middle of the 10th but it just doesn't have the same flavor. Oh... it has everything I want in urban fantasy... just doesn't fill me enough in the romance department. Haha.