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A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton
4.0
This book was packed full of new adventures.. but sadly, most of it wasn’t needed. Taranis attacking Merry really came out of nowhere. He wasn’t apart of the story at all and suddenly he’s a major player. It just doesn’t make sense. I enjoyed finding out that she is pregnant but the multiple fathers feels like a weird way to let her have her cake and eat it too- so, I basically feel like it was something pulled out of thin air to allow merry to keep all her lovers. Which, I know we all had our favorite but it would have been better, in terms of the story, had they stuck to the idea of “sidhe can only have one partner” that they used repeatedly before this point.
The rape of the seelie woman? Never goes anywhere. Taranis shows his ass, the police say they can’t just drop the charges even though they have witnesses who can vouch that the woman wasn’t raped- that it was an illusion. But they never move forward with it (honestly, I don’t even think it was mentioned again) and they never say “okay, charges are bullshit. It’s dropped”. So they just kinda... forget about it?
I really enjoy the stories but as I go on and think about it- there are lots of holes and things that just don’t jive well or make sense. Like creating a sithen in the mortal world... It just doesn’t make sense. &then for them to not use it- what was the purpose? Other than allowing taranis a way to attack... but he can travel through light, so why can’t he attack without needing to add sithens? Which is another thing that never goes anywhere...
A lot of plot threads are left to just dangle. The author didn’t do a good job of tying all the conflicts together/ending them out in a way that makes sense.
The rape of the seelie woman? Never goes anywhere. Taranis shows his ass, the police say they can’t just drop the charges even though they have witnesses who can vouch that the woman wasn’t raped- that it was an illusion. But they never move forward with it (honestly, I don’t even think it was mentioned again) and they never say “okay, charges are bullshit. It’s dropped”. So they just kinda... forget about it?
I really enjoy the stories but as I go on and think about it- there are lots of holes and things that just don’t jive well or make sense. Like creating a sithen in the mortal world... It just doesn’t make sense. &then for them to not use it- what was the purpose? Other than allowing taranis a way to attack... but he can travel through light, so why can’t he attack without needing to add sithens? Which is another thing that never goes anywhere...
A lot of plot threads are left to just dangle. The author didn’t do a good job of tying all the conflicts together/ending them out in a way that makes sense.