Divine Misdemeanors: A Novel
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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to aver the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world—and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness.
While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. A name is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.
But even weirder things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.
I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no limits, and that nobody lives forever—even if they’re magical.
From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
Laurell K. Hamilton on Divine Misdemeanors
Meredith Gentry was made as a character so that my muse and I could have a break from writing the Anita Blake series. I’d written five Anita books in a row and was starting to have job anxiety dreams about her life as a replacement for of mine. I needed something different for my muse and me to play with. Merry was made to give me a different voice, a different world to visit. I guess she’s like a second child that you have so the first one won’t be an only. Then, like a parent that just didn’t know that a second child doesn’t double your workload, but quadruples it, I was suddenly trying to do two different series at two different publishers. It went well since they’re both New York Times bestsellers. The audience for both crosses nicely and continues to grow with every book in a time when very few authors can say that. So it’s all excellent, but just like trying to juggle two kids as a replacement for of one, juggling two book series as a replacement for of just one presents its challenges.
At the beginning keeping Anita’s voice out of the Merry books was the largest challenge. I was used to her, and her voice and attitude were closer to my own, so Anita wrote quicker, clearer in my head. Merry was that second baby that is nothing like your first baby, so most of what you learned about taking care of character A doesn’t help a damn bit with character B. Who knew? But there comes a point when you make peace with the second child being so different from the first and so different from yourself. You find the unique joys in that second person, as I’ve establish the joys in the Merry series that are different from Anita.
Anita fights me on paper and permanently has. She’s very much my rebel. Merry never fought on paper until the last book, Swallowing Darkness, and then she establish things worth fighting for. She finally stood up and told me what she wanted and she was willing to do whatever it took to get there. I understood that. I let Merry’s desires, likes, and choices change where I had plotted to end the first cycle of the series. Anita has thrown out entire last thirds of books by her choices, and even scrapped entire novel thoughts because she’d simply grown in a different direction. If I did that for my oldest creation, how could I not do the same for my youngest creation?
In fact, Merry establish her voice so pure and clear that on the last two Anita Blake novels I’ve had to chase her out of my head so Anita could be loud. Now the largest challenge is balancing the writing schedule between two bestselling series, two different publishers, and that thing called a real life. Doing justice to my two imaginary worlds, and still managing to have a life in the real world… that’s the right challenge.–Laurell K. Hamilton
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Update: To all my friends out there who were so troubled by my pre-review, you can now sleep simple — I finished the book. I really loved this addition to the series and give it 5 stars. My only disappointment was that Claudia Black (who read Swallowing Darkness) didn’t also read this book — but Laurel Merlington was fantastic, as usual, so it’s all excellent. I plot to start the series over from the beginning and reading/listening to them all over again.
For persons speed-readers who aver to get LKM’s books free or from the library, but who find the writing to be of “low-quality,” may I suggest you go read something less threatening. I’m sure you can find something in the YA section that will appeal to your sick sexually repressed sensibilities.
Still, it’s been fun watching you scramble to rationalize reading books by an leader you admit you dislike. I guess it takes all kinds.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As a dog lover how can you not like this book. I loved, I cried, I loved.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Well I would just like to say to all of persons people out there that have badmouthed this book that they really do not know what they are talking about. Unless you have sat down and written a book, you really do not know what you are talking about.
Laurel K Hamilton’s imaginative world of Meredith Gentry takes you to another place but is also set in real time. I just like the way that she writes and you can imagine that you are right there with Merry and her men.
Personally, the book was not long enough and would have liked it to have kept going. I really cannot wait to find out what happens next. What is she going to name her babies? What happened with the black coach? When will Merry have her babies?
Will Merry ever go back to court and take over? These are just some of the questions that I have that I hope will maybe be touched on in the next book that by the way I can’t wait until it comes out again.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Laurel k. has done it again.This is the type of novel you just want to keep reading.I can’t wait for the next installment.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Incredible! Permanently looking forwards to new titles by the leader.
Amazon did a fantastic job at delivering book on time and in fantastic condition.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5