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Title: Where's the plot?
Review: I thought A Stroke of Midnight would be a continuation of the previous Merry Gentry novel, Seduced by Moonlight; however, the two days Merry had to heal, ally herself with the sluagh and goblins, and then appear at a banquet at the Seelie court (see the penultimate chapter in Midnight) vanish. Plot continuation from A Stroke of Midnight seems to be discarded; a continual orgy ensues. I enjoy well-developed romance and a soupcon (or more) of sex. I appreciate that Laurell avoids euphemisms for sex and makes it real, but this book just degenetres into (disgusting) sex scene after sex scene. The characters could almost be interchanged with those from the last Anita Blake novel, Incubus Dreams (although that may have been a bit worse), without altering the story.I've been a devoted Laurell K. Hamilton fan for years and am sorry to see her novels devolve so drastically. Her first novel, Nightseer, (a stand-alone) was a gem. Now, sadly, I don't think I'll buy another book by LKH.
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