Swallowing Darkness

I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.

Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt’s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Court–and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.

But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.

I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price–for I am truly my father’s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything–even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.

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Title of ebook: Swallowing Darkness
ISBN: 9780345509871
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 11-2008
Released online for download: 11-03-2008
Author of eBook: Hamilton, Laurell K.
Series: More eBooks from the Meredith Gentry series
Number in this series: 7

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Swallowing Darkness

A Novel
Chapter One

Hospitals are where people go to be saved, but the doctors can only patch you up, put you back together. They can’t undo the damage. They can’t make it so you didn’t wake up in the bad place, or change the truth to lies. The nice doctor and the nice woman from the SART, Sexual Assault Response Team, couldn’t change that I had indeed been raped. The fact that I couldn’t remember it, because my uncle had used a spell for his date-rape drug, didn’t change the evidence—the evidence that they’d found in my body when they did the exam and took samples.

You would think being a real live faerie princess would make your life fairy-tale-like, but fairy tales only end well. While the story is going on, horrible things happen. Remember Rapunzel? Her prince got his eyes scratched out by the witch, which blinded him. At the end of the story, Rapunzel’s tears magically restored his sight, but that was at the end of the story. Cinderella was little better than a slave. Snow White was actually nearly killed four different times by the evil queen. A ... read full excerpt from: Swallowing Darkness ebook

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	Swallowing Darkness 09/24/2009
Reviewer: A viewer from Delaware, OH US
You can never go wrong when you pick up a book by Laurell K. Hamilton. She has two series that I just love. This one and the Anita Blake series. I just cant book the book down until I have finished it.
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	2 02/24/2009
Reviewer: A viewer from Mayfield, US
I just finished Swallowing Darkness and am so relieved at the ending! Thank you, Hamilton, because after the last two books I was afraid to buy this one, afraid of where the story was going. If you've fallen in love with Merry and her men, finish the series. Meredith gets a very unexpected crown. Since she's finally pregnant, we aren't besieged with sex scenes every few pages. In fact, there's very little sex in this book. It's almost tame. Maybe because Meredith and her bodyguards are trying to live through the attacks from the Light and Dark Courts? The situations with Andais, Cel, and Taranis are fairly successfully resolved through some major battles. The book ends in such a way that the series could end or could be revived later, which is not a complaint. If you cried and cursed and carried on about Frost/the White Stag in Book 6, buy this one just to see how that is resolved. It was worth every penny to me.
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32 of 46 people found the following eBook review helpful:
	2 11/12/2008
Reviewer: A viewer from Rison, AR US
If this isn't the last Meredith book, it defintely is the last of this storyline. If you have been following this series, this is the book you have been waiting on. Who will be Queen? Who will be King? And of which Court? Which of Merry's men are around for the long haul and which lost forever? This book answers all that and more. Warning: If you are new to this series, you REALLY need to read them in order.
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