A Glimmer of Death by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

So.

The good:

When it finally gets to the mystery of the magical ***** and its resolution, it's pretty decent. I'm invested and I feel inordinately happy to have something like this in the novel that resembles the previous private investigations/royal intrigue/fae novels that had been coming out so many years ago.

The bad:

It took a LONG time to get through all the toddler and fashion nonsense at the beginning. It took an even longer time to get through all the narrative-foreplay-less sex scenes that felt so horribly gratuitous I felt like I was plopped directly into the worst polyamorous-political nonsense cribbed right from the Anita Blake series complete with cribbed-reused-plundered plotlines from that series as well.

And it took SO DAMN LONG to move past it.

To be very honest, I was reminded of the very worst nonsense I wished never happened in the Blake series. Of course, I kept coming back because when the magic stuff and the fighting stuff and the plot stuff finally kicks in (when it isn't sex), it's pretty great. But this one?

I'm kinda sad I came back to Merry.

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