My Take In Brief: Not a romance, but not porn either. Just ok, this is the last in the series for this listener.
Word on the Web:
AAR, B+
Fantasy Book Reviews, 3 out of 10
SF Site, mixed
Trashotron.com, mixed
Where’s My Plan, mixed (review of audio version)
Audible.com, 3.65 stars after 113 reviews
(Audible readers do not like audible sex!)
Narrator, Laural Merlington is terrific. She also narrates Sharon Shinn books. Scroll down on her page and click on the sample of her performing To See You Again to get a good sense of how Merry Gentry sounds in audio.
Fun factoid: This is the first book I have reviewed with its own Wikipedia entry. It was published in 2001.
Racy Romance Review:
1. Is it porn? This seems to be the question that obsesses nonromance readers. I have very little experience with porn, my most recent being the hotel TV in Sweden a few years ago where my husband and I went to pick up our car. Porn was the only channel that seemed to work, and the narrative went something like this: Girl naked in middle of pool, looks at camera, rubs her nipples, and says ‘I hate the desert. It’s not wet [breathy and pregnant with meaning] in the desert.’ Man appears from stage left and begins having sex with her. The end. In contrast, KOS is a novel about a mixed blood faery princess who has been living undercover as a P.I. in Los Angeles. She returns to court and has to survive various attempts on her life until the next installment (there are now 6). KOS has setting, plot, characters, etc. It is no where near porn, although it is pretty explicit at points. Clearly I have been reading too much edgy romance, because I actually didn’t think there was that much sex in this book.
