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Mistrail's Kiss (Meredith Gentry book 5) by Laurell K. Hamilton
01/04/2008 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Del Rey/Ballantine Books. 212 page hardback. Price: $23.95 (US), $31.95 (CAN). ISBN: 0-345-44358-6. Buy Mistrail's Kiss in the USA - or Buy Mistrail's Kiss in the UK  check out website: www.bantamdell.com , www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.laurellkhamiliton.org
Meredith has been in the Faerie Kingdom for some time now and she hasn't been idle. It has taken several books to tell Meredith's story since she got here. Most of the books are taken up with some amazingly elaborate description of Faerie sexual olympics with a variety of partners.
It is Meredith's duty to get pregnant by one of her attendants if she ever hopes to rule the Faerie Kingdom. Some of this is a pleasurable process but she will die if she does not provide the kingdom with an heir.
I moved to find a parallel of the story of the woman whose parents claimed to weave straw into gold and could not do so without engaging the services of Rumplestiltskin. The oppression of woman through a patriarchal society is neatly summed up by that story. First, the father and then the husband have the power of life and death but in the end the woman is saved by her intelligence and of course guile.
It is only the guile and intelligence that will save Meredith from goals imposed by her Aunt who is reluctantly all wrong her to try for the opportunity of ruling this amazing place. Here Meredith is using her sexual power as an empowering tool. She is very much in charge of all her encounters.
Mainly though it is a bonkbuster with the pretension of being science fantasy. There is a lot of sex in this book and in between the story moves at a snail's pace. Many of Meredith's are brutal, bruising and have more than a hint of sado-masochism. This book has moved the author a long way from her originally science fantasy base. It is firmly in the sexual fantasy category now.
Hamilton is a very visual writer and these are sensational page-turners but I feel sorry that she is concentrating on these to the detriment of a real story. Oh and there should be an advisory warning on the front cover!
Sue Davies
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