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As I was reading this book I had every intention writing a review afterwards. After finally finishing, blinking into the screen of my ebook reader I realized that my brain had been reduced to pudding and I couldn't find anything to say. Words can't really express how truly terrible this book is. Hamilton should be ashamed at giving this to fans who have been waiting for years for the next book in the Merry Gentry series. You can tell by reading it that she's lost what little interest she had left in this series and just rehashed scenes that with a few things like the character names and locations changed could have easily been featured in one of the Anita Blake books. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Merry's babies and when she goes into labor, the birth happen off screen. That probably could have been forgiven except through the whole book Merry shows very little interest in her children and spend almost no time with them. The majority of the babies' care falls to many of Merry's numerous lovers. The only time Merry seems to show any concern for any of the babies is when one of them shows signs of powerful glamour magic that seems to work on even pure sidhe. The vast majority of the book is spent with Merry and assorted other characters standing around in various locations having mind-numbingly boring conversations in which they repeat the same things said in other books, earlier on in this book, or just repeating what other people have just said. When you finally get to any type of action, 4 chapters from the end of the book, the events happen off screen while Merry and Co. stand around having a conversation about what happened. This book was the literary equivalent of watching paint dry. Save your time and your money and find a book that's actually worth reading.