Promise in Merry Gentry?

[raging-muse.livejournal.com]

Hi guys!

The recent posts I've seen about the new Merry book Swallowing Darkness has got me thinking on an old disappointment.  I remember when i first read the first Merry book. I admit somewhat embaressingly now that I liked the first book, it had promise and I liked it alot better then the Anita series which I'd been reading through at the time.  I remember thinking that more then the ANita series, the Merry one had alot of promise and looked to be a really good series.

Back when I first read it there weren't any other books around about Faeries, bar a few young adult/teen aimed ones.  Not sure if any of you can remember any Faerie based books out at the same time but please advise me if you know of any. SO to me Laurell was the first author i got to to do Faeries in the way she's done them - the 2 courts and all. I keep thinking ot myself that under the hands of a different author that whole series could be been really well done. The idea of the 2 seperate courts  of Unseelie and Seelie wasn't new but 2 mad monarchs at the helm and the problem of a dying race due ot infertility was interesting. But alas like the Anita series it bombed and died a horrible death as all the sex and bad writing got in the way. Does anyone else think under a different author or if Laurell had done it right it could ahve gone on to be quite good? And does anyone know of any really good Faerie books? The ones i find these days are all the awful paranormal type ones and i find myself insulted to see powerful Faeries treated as sex toys.

 

Comments

[merchendiver.livejournal.com]

Charles De Lint is an awesome writer. I adored Moonheart. He is one of the best Urban fantasy writers out there in MHO.

[skyekissed.livejournal.com]

<3 I love Charles de Lint!!

[marumae.livejournal.com]

I do as well. I third the De Lint nomination. You want books about fey, try his Newford series and a good portion of what he's wrote. He does the fey right. He wrote a book in the Retold Fairy Tales series called "Jack of Kinrowan" or "Jack the Giant Killer" as it was called here in America. It's about a woman (and I mean woman not a teenager or a horny woman child) named Jacky Rowan who becomes the savor of the Seelie courts by killing a giant. Set in modern day Ottawa, it's a great novel. The sequel I'm not so terribly fond of, but it does have it's share of well portrayed fey. Really I can't not recommend him enough he's in my mind the true quintessential urban fantasy author.