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Melissa Cookson, Resident Laurell K. Hamilton Scholar
"This is the third installment of the Meredith NicEssus series. Merry is preparing to visit her overbearing uncle, the King of the Seelie Court. In the midst of this, Merry stumbles across some strange new powers--she can restore many of the powers the sidhe gave up as part of a treaty they signed when moving to the United States--and even dole out some they never had. She continues working on improving her alliance with the goblins, using her ability to change goblins into sidhe as a bargaining tool. Though Merry is nervous about visiting the Seelie Court, she does not expect the attack on her way to the Unseelie Court. The attack extends to her Aunt Andais, the Queen of Air and Darkness, who almost kills both her bodyguards and Meredith's. Meredith is forced into a duel, and surprises the court when she wins. In the meanwhile, the traitor is revealed, and Meredith must fight her as well."
Sarrah, Resident Laurell K. Hamilton Scholar
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Ballantine, Feb 2004, 23.95, 366 pp.
ISBN 034544356X
When President Jefferson invited the fae to make their home in America on the condition they would not set themselves up as destroyers, they had no choice but to accept. No other country wanted them and to keep their cultural identity they gave up much of their powers. Now the courts of the Sealie and Unsealie are dying, with very few children born to carry on the line.
Queen Andais of the Unsealie court has made her son and her niece compete for the throne with the first one to get pregnant or to get someone with child named the heir. Princess Merry is worried that even with her own harem she remains barren but also worries that her magic is growing in her and she doesn't know how to control it, a dangerous position to be in when many Sidhe want her dead.
Many people think it's a dream come true to have a harem but the princess knows that some of the shallower men only want her to take the throne so they can share in her power. SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT is a magical romantic fantasy that will charm anyone who reads it. There are many surprises concerning the heroine and the author brilliantly sets the stage for the storyline of the next book in the series.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Laurell K. Hamilton Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 17.5% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 17.5% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 45% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy world/fantasy past
Coming of age
Yes
Youngster becomes
- a powerful magician
Romance
Yes
Romance plotlets:
- general romance
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- unraveling a conspiracy
Political power play
Yes
Political plotlets
- factions fight within govt for control
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- can cast many different spells
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Has magical powers?
Yes
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Domed/Underground City
Earth setting:
- current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- licking
- orgies
- impregnation/reproduction
- society controls main character's sexing
- actual description of sex
- lesbians!
- description of breasts
- descript. of private male anat.
- descript. of non-breast female anat.
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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