| A Lick of Frost Laurell K. Hamilton Ballantine Books Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Romance - Gothic Oct. 23, 2007 978-0-345-49590-7 288 pp. Hardcover http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345495907 3 Swords |
| I’d been waiting on this particular installment of the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton since its prepublication announcement. Of the Merry Gentry entourage, Frost has always been my favorite, not solely because we share an appellation, but mainly due to his moodiness and emotional vulnerability. He is the character I’ve found most appealing, so I gleefully anticipated this particular story, expecting it to be rife with Frost, so to speak. I’m disappointed. Even though the character of Frost participates in a significant subplot and undergoes some serious evolution, I considered his participation just that-a subplot, not what I was given to expect from the title of the book. Additionally the expected extreme graphic violence and expressed sensuality wasn’t present to the usual extent found in the Merry Gentry series. There were one or two quite graphic scenes, but much of that thread was backdrop, not overt. Even the vaunted sexual appetites and activities of Princess Meredith NicEssus and her entourage of guards seem dulled in comparison to earlier stories in this series. My overall impression was that LKH had composed this novel wearing gloves. |
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