A Lick of Frost (Meredith Gentry, Book 6) by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Book Reviews of A Lick of Frost (Meredith Gentry, Book 6)
Book Review: LKH getting back on her game?
Summary: 3 Stars
Well not quite - this book still has some of the flaws the last LKH books have had. Too much sex and long-winded conversations. Still the plot actually moves along in this book which hasn't happened the the MG or AB books in quite a while. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for down and dirty sex, but enough is enough. Lets hope she keeps moving back towards real substance in her writing because I miss original LKH style.Book Review: Better than some of LKH's previous books, but not fantastic
Summary: 2 Stars
After attempting several times to read the abysmal Mistral's Kiss, I finally decided to skip it entirely & move onto the next book. After getting 30-50 pages into the book, I realized that I hadn't missed a single thing. (Which says loads about LKH's writing & pacing abilities!)
This story (like previous ones) has the action take place within one day. Merry's men have been accused of rape, so they go to meet with Taranis's lawyers (one of his people was the one who was raped) to fight the accusations. Merry also discovers a zillion new different magical powers, brings together a new sithern, gets pregnant, & brings about world peace.
Ok... so maybe not the last one, but you get where I'm going with this. While the book is much better than the last one, it still reads a little too much like fanfiction. The sex scenes in this book are much tamer than before, with there being fewer sex scenes & less boring description in said scenes. Even so, it's just plain BORING to read about someone who always has a magical cure or fix-it-all whenever the going gets really tough. It's also boring that everything is so "Merry Merry Merry" when there were so many interesting sub-plots that were brought up & then dropped in favor of more "Merry is awesome" & "Merry is all powerful" plotlines. Die-hard fans may like this book, but new readers will find themselves incredibly bored. They'll also feel lost, but I'm assuming that the new readers will be people who have at least a rudimentary knowlege of what has gone on before. (And sadly enough, the plot development has been so slow that the average new reader could catch up with everything by reading a wikipedia summary.)
2.5/5
Book Review: Confused
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first one of the series that I have read, but I don't think I will read anymore to try to figure out what is going on. This book is just weird and doesn't make any sense and I even if I had read the other books I think I would still be confused and how she is prego with so many fathers my interest went downhill from there.Book Review: Wow... what the heck was that?
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me start off by saying that I've read a Laurell K. Hamilton book in the past and was not impressed in the slightest. However, I decided to give her another chance thinking this may be something worth reading. A Lick of Frost is nothing but an over-indulgent pile of rubbish. The dialogue is amatuerish to say the least, the characters are one dimensional, the plot is just plain awful, and the sex isn't even appealing. I mean, who wants to have sex with gremlins through a mirror? A MIRROR?! Come on! If you want fantasy, read a book that will captivate you, not one that will leave you wondering what the heck was that?!