August 23, 2008
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Seduced by Moonlight

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Third in Laurell Hamilton’s series of tales about Meredith Gentry, a sexy young lady from Los Angeles who happens to be a Faerie-American Princess. These books are silly — Linda calls them Faery Porn — but Hamilton has a fascinating mythos. Meredith spends a lot of time in bed with various preternaturally handsome demi-deities and supernatural forces, but underneath it all lies a world in which Thomas Jefferson signed a treaty that took in the wretched refuse of European faerie, vanquished in the first Great War, and gave them refuge near St. Louis where they now live in reduced circumstances. Less serious than American Gods, but if you can get past the (rather good if frighteningly plentiful) sex, the series is much worth reading.