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    Divine Misdemeanors: A Novel

    Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    About this audiobook

    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 claim 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. Someone 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 stranger 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 borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if they're magical.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 8, 2009
    ISBN9780739370490
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    Divine Misdemeanors: A Novel
    Author

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series. She lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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    • 3/5
      If you want to know a little more about the men in Merry's life, if you want to see some of them gain power and others of them being jealous, if you want to see Merry involved in crime while pregnant and see some of the trials and tribulations that they are going through. If you liked any of the previous books,read this one. This book was good; not great but definitely good. I'll definitely pick up the next one because I can count on Laurell Hamilton to deliver a creative and entertaining book.
    • 5/5
      I always love Laurell K Hamilton’s books about Meredith Gentry!! She continues to keep my attention throughout the years.
    • 2/5
      Boring, this had nothing to do with the story so far. It was a badly written detective novel, not true to her past works with these characters. hard to read
    • 2/5
      It was okay. The plot was a bit thin, but that's to be expected from LKH these days. I'm not sure why I keep reading her. She's like a drug I can't quit. Like cigarettes. LKH is like Camels. (Yes, I *am* easily amused, thanks for noticing...)
    • 3/5
      This book didn't have the heart-stopping action as the previous novels, although it was well written and had a good storyline. There was a lot of infighting between the guards and Merry, trust issues also abound. Yet Merry manages to do the improbable and continues to balance out both guards and lovers, even the friends in her life. Bittersweet was a sad character, sometimes Bitter, sometimes Sweet - but always doing her best in everything she does. I feel bad for the little fae. I totally understand feeling as if you aren't good enough and that sometimes being yourself isn't enough either.
    • 2/5
      This certainly doesn't feel like a "last book", hope there's more. It would be something entirely new to see a Hamilton character as a mom.
    • 3/5
      Wow. Stuff happened! And not just sex stuff. This series is definitely more porn-tastic than the Anita Blake books (not by much) but there also seemed to be an attempt made here to have a mystery and a plot. I was a little taken aback by the change in characterization in some of the men in the story, but I suppose new antagonists need to be set up now that the initial big arc appears to be over.
    • 4/5
      Nicely titalating and a good plot.
    • 3/5
      Apart from some of the errors comitted by various people. I mean seriously Merry should have tidied up her hair before entering a crime scene - if I was Detective Tate I'd almost be tempted to get myself some heavy duty hair nets for this contaminator! Also the value judgement that just because Lucy Tate was wearing a shirt that strained across the front was because she had to "pretend to be a man to fit in" both within two pages of the text almost made me want to throw the book away from me. Overall it was pretty predictable fare for this series. Merry or one of her harem have angst, it's mostly sorted using sex. Merry fails to empathise or the empathy lasts seconds. It was readable but sometimes I felt myself lost by the story because I have repetedely failed to really care all that much about the characters, they all sometimes blur into a much smaller number of men. Yeah, I'm kinda asking for it by keeping to read this series but it's diverting. Occasionally it shows spars of a better story lurking under the surface.
    • 3/5
      I've been waiting very patiently for my library to finally get Divine Misdemeanours and finally devoured it in just a few hours. I have to admit to being a little disappointed - the mystery plot was interesting but there seemed to be other parts that didn't really go anywhere - the Fairy Godmother would have been interesting if more involved and I wanted to know more about the Fear Dearg. I just felt that these characters had a potential to contribute to the story more than they did. The description also mentions "Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations" but there was no follow up of any havoc wreaking from Merry's dream excursion or the humvee continuing without her, its treated as an oddity, nothing more. The ending was also very anticlimatic - a fearsome collection of warriors for a battle at the end for it all to fizzle with a shot and well aimed knife before anything had begun. So for me the plot could have been stronger - all the ideas were there they just needed teasing out to contribute more.Still I enjoyed the story, and still looking forward to the next.
    • 3/5
      I like these characters and the overall story being told in these books, but the series has dissolved into awkward lurches from sex scene to sex scene with a little "plot" thrown in to kill time until the next enormous sex act. Waiting patiently for the series to go back to telling stories again!
    • 5/5
      A serial killer is targeting Los Angeles demi-fae. Pages ripped from fairy tales are left with the perfectly posed corpses. Called in as an expert witness, Merry (and her men) are exposed not only to the sick mind of a killer, but also the ravenous paparazzi. But the serial killer may not be quite as dangerous as the internal threat - can Merry maintain control of her men as their powers return? Old wounds and older ambitions rear their ugly heads. Who knew being banished to the mortal realm would be this difficult?A bridge installment, perhaps - new possibilities for struggle & strife around every corner bodes well for future action.
    • 5/5
      I remember why I love Laurell K Hamilton when I read her fairie books. The sex is hot and the story is filled with hardcore police crime. It was good to see how Merry was doing in her new life outside of the fairie mound and back in her own element. There is a serial killer killing off Fae and Merry feels honor bound to find the killer even though it is dangerous and she is pregnant with the heirs to the fairie crown. Her many men as always are there to help and the goddess continues to move through her to create new life. This time outside of the fae realms. Another good story and I look forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      The only thing I have to say about this series, is that the story line is great, but Laurell Hamilton has WAY too much repetition of past events. A writer's series should be good enough on its own that a reader wants to go back to the beginning to follow and learn about the characters. A writer should not try to recapture all previous books in the series in a two page summary in each book.I do love the story line and characters though =0)
    • 3/5
      This book is sort of a turning point for the series. The previous book, Swallowing Darkness, could have been a perfect stopping point. This is either where Hamilton takes the series in a different direction and runs with it, or else it's the beginning of the end and it goes down the tubes as happened with the Anita Blake books. Already there are early signs of the same problems: too many characters to keep track of and they ALL want/need to get in her pants, frequent arguments which circle round and round and are never fully resolved, to the point a reader could wonder what are the bad guys doing while this is going on? Playing pinochle? A lack of plot covered by gratuitous sex scenes. It's certainly not to the same degree as the Anita Blake series, but it's there. I hope Hamilton can either keep the series strong, or end it gracefully and start a new one.
    • 4/5
      I like that there was a good mystery to solve in the plot. I do with that the book seemed less like a filler, which many of Hamilton's books feel like these days.
    • 3/5
      I continued to read Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series after abandoning the Anita Blake series several years ago, because it tended to have more plot and less sex (or at least more plot-based sex), and I liked the characters. I guess I still like the characters, but Divine Misdemeanors felt pretty much like a placeholder book after the climactic events of Swallowing Darkness. Merry is back in the human world, pregnant with twins (by six fathers), having turned down rulership of the Unseelie Court "for love." Strange magical events continue to happen, particularly when she has intercourse with one of her many, many lovers: different fey are brought back to their old powers, troops in the Middle East are miraculously saved, etc. In the meantime, the book also maintains a tissue-thin plot about a serial killer of demi-fey that gets wrapped up in the blink of an eye. Here is the takeaway for the next book, which I may or may not read: Merry must aid in bringing faerie and its magic to the human world.
    • 3/5
      This is book 8 in the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell Hamilton. It was an okay book, about par for the course in this series. It was entertaining, but had some plot problems and some pacing problems.This book takes up where the last book left off. Merry and crew have chosen to move back to LA. After choosing to save Frost instead of become the King and Queen of the Unseelie court, Merry and Doyle (along with Merry's male harem) are in exile from fairy. They are working on setting up a place for themselves when Merry's contact at the LA police department, Lucy, calls and asks Merry to investigate a crime scene with multiple fey dead. The scene of the crime leads both Merry and Lucy to believe that a serial killer is loose. Can Merry and her guys figure out what is going on before more fey are killed?Like many of the previous book this book has a loose plot interrupted with numerous mediocre sex scenes, as Merry tries to keep all six fathers of her unborn twins (and a few other new guys) happy. The murder plot goes on pretty well for the first 100 pages and then for the last fifty-or-so pages. In between that is a lot of sex, and a lot of Merry trying to get her overemotional man harem in check. Merry uses her normal combination of sex, pleading, humor, over-the-top proclamation, and prayers to the Goddess to do this.I liked the murder investigation overall, despite the fact that it took backseat to the management of Merry's household for parts of the book. Reading about how Merry keeps her household running and how she deals with all these emotionally scarred guards from the Queen of Darkness, was somewhat interesting. Although, like previous books, too much time is spent on this and too many new characters are added in. It is like Hamilton has just added so many players to this story that it just takes up way too much time to juggle them all and there is no way she can give each character good page space.I did like that there was less of Merry praying to the Goddess to solve all her problems, Merry actually had to work some of the issues out herself. I did like that some of her male leads (Frost, Doyle, Rheas) have overcome their insecurities and are actual acting like stable, supportive people.I wasn't sure if I would keep reading this series of not. I thought "Swallowing Darkness" would have been a great stopping point for this series. This book is very much a transitional one; it deals with all the characters adjusting to their new lifestyles. There really isn't much of an over-arcing storyline that makes you interested in the next book...it makes me wonder what future books hold in store for Merry. I enjoyed the book some, I liked some of the characters. So, I will probably read the next book in the series just because these are a quick read and somewhat entertaining.
    • 4/5
      I really liked this one. It had a good mix of mystery, plot, characters, and spookiness, and not too much sex. The latter has been a problem with some of Hamilton's books where the sex is just about the whole book. It pushes out room for just about anything else. It's not a problem with this one. A minor complaint is that there are so many characters now in this world that if you are serioulsy following the books, you start saying where did so-and-so come from? Why bring in Caswyn as a character, give him some back-story, and then drop him entirely? Still definitely one of the best in the series although still not equaling the first two.
    • 3/5
      Starting to read this book was like getting reacquainted with friends you had been separated from for too long. I love that there are so many characters, and they are so well crafted that you care about them all. Princess Meredith is such a good center character that everyone else revolves around that you can really see why they all stick so closely to her. This book was a good balance of fey politics, relationships, and murder mystery/detective story. I would generally prefer less sex and more action, but at least LH uses the sex to advance the characters and the story. The detective story was a little weak as the solution was pretty much just handed to them without them really discovering anything. But the characters were tested by one thing and another and the story grew from that with a good and interesting foreshadowing of human/fey interactions especially with the soldiers that fought for her and whom she healed.
    • 4/5
      Divine Misdemeanors was a great read by my definition...read 100 pages at bedtime before my eyes rebelled and refused to stay open a single second longer. (How rude of them!) Then finished the book just ten minutes before the end of an all day session with my husband at the cancer center. I love that these books pose so many questions. When God gives you a choice how do you know which is "right"? What will be the consequences? For yourself, for the people you love, the world at large? I'm excited to see where Merry and her friends will go next!