Mistral's Kiss

Chapter 1

I dreamt of warm flesh and cookies. The sex I understood, but the cookies . . . Why cookies? Why not cake, or meat? But that’s what my subconscious chose as I dreamt. We were eating in the tiny kitchen of my Los Angeles apartment—an apartment I didn’t live in anymore, outside of dreams. The we were me, Princess Meredith—the only faerie royal ever born on American soil—and my royal guards, over a dozen of them.

They moved me around with skin the color of darkest night, whitest snow, the pale of newborn leaves, the brown of leaves that have gone down to die on the forest floor, a rainbow of men moving nude around the kitchen.

The real apartment kitchen would have barely held three of us, but in the dream everyone walked through that narrow space between sink and stove and cabinets as if there were all the room in the world.

We were having cookies because we’d just had sex and it was hungry work, or something like that. The men moved around me graceful and perfectly nude. Several of the men were ones I’d never seen nude. They moved with skin the color of summer sunshine, the transparent white of crystals, colors I had no name for, for the colors did not exist outside of faerie. It should have been a good dream, but it wasn’t. I knew something was wrong, that feeling of unease that you get in dreams when you know that the happy sights are just a disguise, an illusion to hide the ugliness to come.

The plate of cookies was so innocent, so ordinary, but it bothered me. I tried to pay attention to the men, touching their bodies, holding them, but each of them in turn would pick up a cookie and take a bite, as if I weren’t there.

Galen with his pale, pale green skin and greener eyes bit into a cookie, and something squirted out the side. Something thick and dark. The dark liquid dripped down the edge of his kissable mouth and fell onto the white countertop. That single drop splattered and spread and was red, so red, so fresh. The cookies were bleeding.

I slapped it from Galen’s hand. I picked up the tray to keep the men from eating any more. The tray was full of blood. It dripped down the edges, poured over my hands. I dropped the tray, which shattered, and the men bent as if they would eat from the floor and the broken glass. I pushed them back, screaming, “No!”

Doyle looked up at me with his black eyes and said, “But it is all we have had to eat for so long.”

The dream changed, as dreams will. I stood in an open field with a ring of distant trees encircling it. Beyond the trees, hills rode up into the paleness of a moonlit winter’s night. Snow lay like a smooth blanket across the ground. I was standing ankle-deep in snow. I was wearing a loose sweeping gown as white as the snow. My arms were bare to the cold night. I should have been freezing, but I wasn’t. Dream, just a dream.

Then I noticed something in the center of the clearing. It was an animal, a small white animal, and I thought, That’s why I didn’t see it, for it was white, whiter than the snow. Whiter than my gown, than my skin, so white that it seemed to glow.

The animal raised its head, sniffing the air. It was a small pig, but its snout was longer, and its legs taller, than those of any pig I’d ever seen. Though it stood in the middle of the snowy field, there were no hoof See more like this in our Fantasy ebooks section

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Title of ebook: Mistral's Kiss
ISBN: 9780345495464
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 12-2006
Released online for download: 12-12-2006
Author of eBook: Hamilton, Laurell K.
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Mistral's Kiss

A Novel
Chapter 1

I dreamt of warm flesh and cookies. The sex I understood, but the cookies . . . Why cookies? Why not cake, or meat? But that’s what my subconscious chose as I dreamt. We were eating in the tiny kitchen of my Los Angeles apartment—an apartment I didn’t live in anymore, outside of dreams. The we were me, Princess Meredith—the only faerie royal ever born on American soil—and my royal guards, over a dozen of them.

They moved me around with skin the color of darkest night, whitest snow, the pale of newborn leaves, the brown of leaves that have gone down to die on the forest floor, a rainbow of men moving nude around the kitchen.

The real apartment kitchen would have barely held three of us, but in the dream everyone walked through that narrow space between sink and stove and cabinets as if there were all the room in the world.

We were having cookies because we’d just had sex and it was hungry work, or something like that. The men moved around me graceful and perfectly nude. Several of the men were ones I’d never seen nude. They moved with skin t ... read full excerpt from: Mistral's Kiss ebook

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	2 01/25/2009
Reviewer: A viewer from Mayfield, US
I finished and reviewed A Stroke of Midnight then immediately downloaded Mistral's Kiss because I have so enjoyed this series. I don't think I like where this plot is headed. Time has slowed to a crawl; readers must keep this in mind. In previous books, the story was unfolding over a longer period of time. The purpose of this book seemed to be more superfluous sex in order to help some main and peripheral characters gain powers and to give readers something to tide them over between the larger bits of the main storyline. (This book is comparable to what happened with "Micah" in the Anita Blake storyline.) It was an interesting diversion, it answered some questions, but it was entirely too short. Mistral's Kiss consists of several chapters worth of sex, dangerous political situations and the Dark Queen's psychotic behavior. It almost feels like Hamilton herself is not sure where she's going with this story either. I wouldn't say don't read it. I would say read it with lowered expectations.
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	2 11/08/2007
Reviewer: A viewer from Minnesota
I absolutely love her books! She is one of my top authors! I got hooked to this series with the first book! Even though I love all of her books, this one was kind of a disappointment. The first few books in the series were really really great. I guess that set the standard pretty high for me. I guess I just expected a little more from the cliffhanger from the previous book. Although I would DEFINITELY suggest that you read it! If it is a Laurell K. Hamilton book then you MUST READ IT!!!
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