By: Karen Marie Moning Published By: Delacorte Press Released: Available Now Details : Hardback from library, 500 Pages RATING: 5 OUTSTANDING LAYERED, EMOTIONAL STARS! Blurb: Goodreads #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning returns with the epic conclusion to her pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn. As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist, and the lines between life and death, lust and love, disappear completely.
Black holes loom menacingly over Dublin, threatening to destroy the Earth. Yet the greatest danger is the one MacKayla Lane has unleashed from within: the Sinsar Dubh—a sentient book of unthinkable evil—has possessed her body and will stop at nothing in its insatiable quest for power.
The fate of Man and Fae rests on destroying the book and recovering the long-lost Song of Making, the sole magic that can repair the fragile fabric of the Earth. But to achieve these aims, sidhe-seers, the Nine, Seelie, and Unseelie must form unlikely alliances and make heart-wrenching choices. For Barrons and Jada, this means finding the Seelie Queen who alone can wield the mysterious song, negotiating with a lethal Unseelie prince hell-bent on ruling the Fae courts, and figuring out how to destroy the Sinsar Dubh while keeping Mac alive.
This time, there’s no gain without sacrifice, no pursuit without risk, no victory without irrevocable loss. In the battle for Mac’s soul, every decision exacts a tremendous price.
BOOK REVIEW:
Grief was a silenced wail that had no beginning or end,
just a long, agonizing middle.
I had to sit on my thoughts for a few days before writing my review. Not because of anything bad—I simply had to process.
I really enjoyed this book. Mac came with so much more than I think I have felt for her in the past.
Dani/Jada, man—you are killing me KMM. I know what I wanted, but I know you will give me more in 2018. I know why you played it the way you did and I loved it. I loved how everybody in the vicinity of Dani’s heart, took it.
I knew the child. I know the woman. She’ll never be satisfied with a single lover. Dani craves experience, challenge, change, tempering, growth. She needs to taste it all. I understand that.
The Big R has my heart...he's always had my heart since Iced.
So much going on in this Fever installment.
Always well written.
He laughed and the sound was a symphony of dark crystals chiming.
Always layered. Such wonderful imagination KMM uses in this series. So much thought has gone into the plot and how she was gonna tackle certain characters.
I took my time reading this one over a good ten days. I simply didn’t want to rush it in a couple days. I wanted to absorb the words properly.
Many emotions.
The character with the most growth in this book was Mac, easily. KMM put her through a lot. I loved how she wrote certain things for the reader to really get inside and understand. Clever and dramatic.
Barrons has faded a bit into the background, compared to the initial Fever series, I don't 'feel' him the way he made me purrrr in the initial series, but that is ok. I still get lovely visuals.
He’s wearing black leather pants and a white shirt, cuffs rolled up, revealing strong forearms and a thick silver Celtic cuff. His beautiful face is inscrutable as ever. I use the word “beautiful” but to the rest of the world he’s not. The casual observer finds him disturbingly carnal, animal, unsettlingly predatory. The genetic stamp of Jericho Barrons’s face was tossed in the gene pool trashcan eons ago. His bone structure is sharp, primal, his brow prominent, and he can seem downright feral if you catch a glimpse of him when he thinks he’s unobserved. His eyes are so dark they’re nearly black, and when he’s angry, crimson sparks glitter within. His hair is midnight, slicked back. He has one of the most symmetrical faces I’ve ever seen. His body…well, I see the lithe grace and power the beast in him even in his human form.
Lor was one of the characters I felt there were places left open for more words in the future. I always wanted to know more of the Nine intimately…I wonder if we will? They are there, but they aren’t really participating in this series that much.
Kat is another character I felt was hinted at in a past book with being one of the only females to be trained. Another reason I feel there is more…much more.
I am so over the moon Dani is getting a book in a different time to the ending of Feversong. Ryodan needs his Dani. I need to see him get her.
“How many fucking people do you think I’ve watched die?” His silver eyes flashed crimson. “Over and over. That’s what you do. You love them while you have them and when they’re gone, you grieve. That’s life. At least you had them for a while.”
I stared at him, realizing that, just like Dancer saw only part of me, I saw Ryodan through a filter, too. And right now I was seeing him in a way I never had before. He’d loved. Many times. Deeply. And he’d lost countless times. And that was why he fought so hard to keep his men together. He was intensely controlled because at the heart of it all, he cared intensely, and even though he was immortal, he’d never turned off emotion.
This series has been running for around ten years. I can see more books in the future. I will feel kinda nekid without one. Here's hoping there are spinoffs and we get in deep with some of the Nine.
Iced, was the book for me ( after Shadowfever ) I simply couldn't get enough of Ryodan and Dani and the humor between them. I've missed it.
He’d said, Holy Psychotic PCs, Robin, we’ve a murderous MacBook on the loose!
The Mega had my heart again in this installment.
She’d once crushed on Jericho Barrons violently. Before she realized he and Mac belonged together like earth and sky, night and day, fire and ice.
He kissed me like I was the empire he was sworn to protect and would die a thousand deaths to keep secure. He kissed me like I was a woman with a deep dark wildness that needed to be fed and he knew just how to do it. He kissed me like he was dying and this was the last kiss he would ever taste. Then his kiss changed and his tongue was velvet and silk as he kissed me like I was fine bone china that needed exacting care and gentleness. Then the storm built in both of us and I ground myself against him, and he was searching with his kiss and his hands sliding down to my ass for the part of me that was a savage animal and so was he and we were going to forget the world and become two primal, uncomplicated beasts fucking as if the universe depended on our passion to fuel it.
“You. Aren’t. Everyone else.” He paused, then said in a rough voice, “And you’re not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You’re beautiful.”
Bravo KMM for bringing Barrons, Mac, Cruce, Ryodan, The Mega, Dancer and the list goes on, into our lives and your amazing storytelling.
“Jericho,” I whispered against his ear, “thank you. For everything.” I drew back and laughed, feeling inexpressibly light.
Details: Hardcover from library ( will order my copy soon ) , 490 Pages RATING: 4.75 BARRONS & RYODAN & LOR STARS! Blurb: Goodreads
In Karen Marie Moning’s latest installment of the epic #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series, the stakes have never been higher and the chemistry has never been hotter. Hurtling us into a realm of labyrinthine intrigue and consummate seduction, FEVERBORN is a riveting tale of ancient evil, lust, betrayal, forgiveness and the redemptive power of love.
When the immortal race of the Fae destroyed the ancient wall dividing the worlds of Man and Faery, the very fabric of the universe was damaged and now Earth is vanishing bit by bit. Only the long-lost Song of Making—a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of all life itself—can save the planet.
But those who seek the mythic Song—Mac, Barrons, Ryodan and Jada—must contend with old wounds and new enemies, passions that burn hot and hunger for vengeance that runs deep. The challenges are many: The Keltar at war with nine immortals who’ve secretly ruled Dublin for eons, Mac and Jada hunted by the masses, the Seelie queen nowhere to be found, and the most powerful Unseelie prince in all creation determined to rule both Fae and Man. Now the task of solving the ancient riddle of the Song of Making falls to a band of deadly warriors divided among—and within—themselves.
Once a normal city possessing a touch of ancient magic, Dublin is now a treacherously magical city with only a touch of normal. And in those war-torn streets, Mac will come face to face with her most savage enemy yet: herself.
BOOK REVIEW:
I am very addicted to this series, have been for many a year. When I started reading, the latest book released was Faefever, so I have had to sit patiently waiting for every book since.
Now, in saying that, I am gonna admit Burned is the only book I haven’t done a review on, because…well I got a little shock at the time and a little confused when it didn’t follow in the vein of Iced as part of Dani’s trilogy.
I liked Burned but it was my least favorite. I have finally been able to say that out loud. I stay away from any reviews, blurbs or teasers when I read in this series, so I had no clue Burned was going to get flipped on me and reverting back to Mac and Barrons.
These things happen.
I am so pleased I got more Dani/Jada and Ryodan and the ever lovable, Lor in Feverborn.
Lor. The man was a beast. A primitive caveman who loved being what he was. Blunt, blatantly sexual, with a voracious appetite for rock and roll, brawls, and hot blondes, he was prone to proposition a woman by saying, “Hey, wanna fuck?” and scored a ridiculous amount of time with his Viking good looks and that hint of something dirty-kinky-raw just beneath the surface, locked, loaded, and ready to blast a woman’s inhibitions to dust.
Giddy up!
It was not enough, but I respect KMM has gone for whatever reason in this direction of Mac and Barrons again.
Her writing is always superb, Burned may not have been the continued story direction ( Dani O'Malley Trilogy ) I had hoped, as I so adore Dani and Ryodan ( in their own trilogy ), but eh, not my story to tell.
Feverborn I was very hesitant to pick up, hence why I'm only doing it now... because of Burned.
I am pleased to say, I personally enjoyed what KMM did with all the characters in this installment, even if not a lot of new stuff happened compared to the fast pace of the original series. I hung on tight to any Jada and Ryodan and soaked it up.
I did get a shock emotion where I got a bit girlie and had a little cry.
Nice one KMM.J
I got the mother of all endings.
Nice one KMM. J
I say this because Feversong is like a few days away if I understand correctly.
Nice one me. #win
Barrons and Mac had a kinda off relationship going on in Feverborn, compared to how they behaved in other books. It was a little distant, I felt. There was in the moment sex a couple times, but Mac was clearly off doing her stuff for the reader to see. He went motionless, swept my body with that dark, inscrutable gaze, and the shape of his mouth changed. "Ah, Ms. Lane, did you pull me out of there to fuck?”
I think I got a bit confuzzed with him calling her Ms. Lane again. Barrons did eventually give us an explanation. Jada’s character I do adore, I miss Dani, and I think Mac does too, but Jada is here now. I do miss all those Batman quotes and banter between Ryodan and Dani. Let's face it...I am kinda upset the trilogy got snuffed out. My readers heart got sad. Moving on.
This quote just made me put my hand over my heart…bless.
Silver eyes met hers and locked. “I didn’t like Dani.”
“At least you’re consistent,” she said coolly.
His silver eyes were ice. “I loved her.”
Well, day…um!
Oh... Christian. He’s such a great character. As the reader we have watched him evolve enormously over the series.
Christian glided down the hallway toward her, part muscled Highlander, part sleek, dark Faerie, majestic black-velvet wings trailing the gold floor, and despite having been trained to stand their ground, a few of her sidhe-seers peeled back.
Dancer really gets Dani and accepts Jada. I love how he makes things not complicated, where everybody else can’t see underneath like Dancer can.
“Laughter is power. One of the greatest weapons we have. It can slay dragons and it can heal. Jada doesn’t have it anymore. As long as she doesn’t, she’s more vulnerable than any of you seem to realize. Stop worrying about your idiotic ‘things’ and start worrying about her. Make her laugh, Mac. And remember how to do it yourself, while you’re at it…”
I adore how Lor always calls Dani/Jada, honey. I just melt. They have such a great friendship, he adores her, but knows she’s off limits.
“Aw, honey, keep dancing like that, you’re gonna get me killed,” Lor said close to her ear. Mac and Barrons are that couple that simply stay with you once you have read them.
And this is one of the reasons why.
“Because, Ms. Lane, when the world goes to bloody hell,
I will always be at your bloody side.”
The latter part of this book really got hopping and I am so excited to carry on shortly with Feversong... because that ending.
O.M.G!
“Uh, Barrons, we’re in a world of shit,” I muttered.
If the answer is yes, (* gasp * shock horror ) you need to be reading this posting, then hit your library up or your Kindle. They are all adult reads.
I was introduced to the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning by a friend and author, Lisa Sanchez back in 2010. I started reading in September 2010. I had the first three books ready to go, one after the other I read them like a bullet. I read the 4th one on Kindle as it was such a long wait to get the paperback. Sometimes with this series the publisher releases the hardback first, then like four months later you can get the paperback.
For those of you who haven't started, or have not finished this series, you really do need to. I have put more readers than I can count, onto this series around the world. I love to preach about it.
It is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Oh the discussions that were flying about cyberspace before Shadowfever was released. I absolutely adore this series and my mixed lot of covers I have. I have some paperback and some hard back.
I love this cover gif for Shadowfever.
There are couple different sets of covers to this series, I just showed you the ones above. It is a highly popular urban fantasy/paranormal series. I really am a bit lost these days what is the difference between these two genres. I get Twilight was pure paranormal romance with Eddy being a vampire, but these days I do find it hard to separate these two genres sometimes.
Dani O'Malley the Mega , went and got herself a spin off series and it is brilliant. Iced is available and Burned is coming January 2015. It's been a long wait, but it will be worth it.
I adored what KMM did with Dani in her spinoff book, Iced. She keeps her fourteen years old with Ryodan sitting back and waiting. I will admit my review for Iced took me four days to get right. I was consumed with this book. You can't jump to this spinoff series, you need to read Fever series first.
My review, KMM actually posted it on her facebook page at the time. I have received over 3700 views of it.
There is a most brilliant smexi scene that KMM popped as a separate read on her web page for the Fever series. Once you have read the first five books, read it, it will actually make you think of Jericho a little differently.
I will say no more. Goodreads JZB Sex Scene. You can read it online , I think over at Karen Marie Moning's web page. I think that is where I read it at the time. Not sure if it is still about, this scene. Holy mac and cheese it was worth a read, though.
You can catch KMM putting up lots of teasers and bits and pieces from all her books on her facebook page. I often lurk and stalk her page. Jericho Barrons is a most brilliant male lead, then you have V'Lane who is... well, I can't say. This series is a most amazing page turner. Just think if you haven't started it, you can binge to your hearts content. I love all the characters they are so well written and the plot is thick and rich. This is quite a good fan made trailer. It showcases Mac and Barrons, and V'Lane.
I can not explain how much I recommend the Fever series and spinoff series. KMM is brilliant at deception with her writing. I really enjoyed Darkfever # 1, but I think she got better and better as she wrote the series. She has the best visuals as you read. I saw all the books like movies playing out on the streets of Dublin.
Pay attention to all the detail, it ALWAYS means something. That is my tip.
J.R. Ward's # 1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood continues as a royal bloodline is compromised by a grave threat to the throne.
Aussie cover
Long live the King…
After turning his back on the throne for centuries, Wrath, son of Wrath, finally assumed his father’s mantle--with the help of his beloved mate. But the crown sets heavily on his head. As the war with the Lessening Society rages on, and the threat from the Band of Bastards truly hits home, he is forced to make choices that put everything--and everyone--at risk.
Beth Randall thought she knew what she was getting into when she mated the last pure blooded vampire on the planet: An easy ride was not it. But when she decides she wants a child, she’s unprepared for Wrath’s response--or the distance it creates between them.
The question is, will true love win out... or tortured legacy take over?
******
It is J.R. Ward so I am going to love it and it is just around the corner. Black Dagger Brotherhood is one of my favourite Paranormal Romance reads. Lover At Last had so many seeds dropped down for future books. I am so excited to read this one. I am quite a fan of the Aussie covers.
BURNED
KAREN MARIE MONING
FEVER # 7
This has been pushed back to January 2015.
I am gonna have to read this book mega slow. Devour it and taste every page. Note that pun I threw in. Blurb still be coming.
MacKayla Lane and Dani “Mega” O’Malley are back with a vengeance in Burned, the seventh novel in the blockbuster Fever series from #1 New York Times bestselling sensation Karen Marie Moning.
Deep in the belly of Novels On The Run I have my reviews of Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning aka KMM. Now I thought I would reach in and try to convince some more readers to get the Fever.
I got it bad!
I like recommending this addiction to others so without further ado, I have extracted my reviews , dusted them off and put them in one posting. Please excuse my reviews they are couple years old and ...well.....I was rather excited at the time...hehe!
Oh, p.s. You don't want to miss this little extra * waggles eyebrows* I thought it was brilliant!
Michelle
Awesome Fan Made Fever Vid
DARKFEVER # 1
By :Karen Marie Moning
Published By: Dell, Delacorte
Released: Available Now
Details: Paperback, 342 Pages
RATING: 5 STARS!!!!!! HOT TAMALE READ!!!
Book Blurb : Goodreads
MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman.
Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.
When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….
As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….
BOOK REVIEW by Michelle 16th September 2010: Lisa Sanchez author of 'Eve Of Samhain' recommended the 'Fever'series to us, said they were real good books. I decided to order first three books from The Book Depository and ordered the 4th with over 100 days preorder on paperback( today I paid the big bucks to get the hardback asap) . I settled in and started reading 'Darkfever' book # 1........by 3.45am it was finished ..... WOW!!!!!!
Mackayla aka Mac , lives in Ashford , Georgia. 22years old. Loves wearing rainbow colours and pink, sunbaking and generally being gorgeous. The day she drops her mobile phone in the swimming pool is ............
'When the walls come tumblin' down
When the walls come crumblin' crumblin'....
--- John Cougar Mellencamp
Alina , Mac's sister is murdered in Ireland.....Mac travels to Dublin where life is no longer rainbow and pink. It's dark , deadly and dangerous in the form of Jericho Barrons. Mac doesn't know what her true self is, she arrives in Dublin very naive and needs to grow up in a hurry!!! Mac must take a chance on Barrons and co-exist with him . If he says jump......you jump!! Mac is essentially alone, facing death every minute of the day as she plunges deeper and deeper into a world existing around her that is getting more darker and deadlier. Mac just wants answers to her sisters grizzly murder. Barrons wants Mac when he says so and where he says so, to do his whim.
Barrons is the mystery character of this story. A closed book. A rough, handsome, determined character. You may ask the questions, he won't necessarily answer them. He is deadly but keeps Mac aka Ms. Lane as he refers to her, on a tight leash . The sexual energy between the two is something to behold. Karen writes it very , very well. You 'feel' the power he carries around with him, the ability to command and get what he wants.
V'Lane is a rather interesting Faerie Prince he has an ability that will make your eyes pop. Please do not think this is a YA book. When V'Lane appears ...
Mac has to figure her life out as it unravels before her eyes and her sisters death. As she learns more about herself , Barrons , Dublin and its 'Dark Zone', there is no going back to Ashford , Georgia. Mac must live every day with the dangerous Barrons and the danger lurking outside her door.
Karen knows how to write characters and to keep them improving and growing, developing more genius story line. It is fast paced, with Barrons energy really enveloping the book. Ms. Lane needs to learn how to assert herself and even if she can, around Barrons. To call each other by their first name is to be personal. This is not personal, this is a means to an end. Barrons doesn't care how much he pushes Ms. Lane...or does he?
This was such an awesome read, I am so glad Lisa recommended it or it may just have passed me by:D
I warn you , have all the four books ready to read. I didn't, and I am suffering for it. The fifth book 'Shadowfever' is due out 2011 . It will be bad enough waiting to continue the story , til then!!
I dare you to read and not 'catch the fever'!!!!
The more you read, the more this song speaks to me volumes about the Fever series.
BLOODFEVER # 2
By: Karen Marie Moning
Published By :Dell, Delacorte
Released : Available now
Details: Paperback, 337 Pages
RATING: 5 STARS !!!! LIBIDO ENHANCING READS!! Book Blurb: Goodreads I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who'd get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.
When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I've learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it....
MacKayla Lane's ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland's shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets.
In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh-a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V'lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious.
For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them....
BOOK REVIEW by Michelle 17th September 2010: From 'Darkfever' to 'Bloodfever' I madly devour these books. 2 days 2 books all read to the wee hours.
Mac is still trying to stay alive, carrying her torches with her , holstered on her body. The Spear with her at all times. Never relaxing always waiting, expecting something , the Shades won't let up, always trying to get to her . Mac is growing, learning. Startling truths will emerge.
Fiona , Barrons employee at Barrons Books and Baubles has decided to show another side to herself, a jealous side . Jealousy festering in the wrong mind can lead to trouble.
Dreamy eyed guy ( from the museum) pops up again in this book. I am trying to figure him out. What is his place or is it just to show Mac can't afford to have a normal relationship. The Garda, local police are starting to take an interest in Mac and Barrons and The Dark Zone. Deaths and missing people are mounting. Unseelie are taking over Dublin. More have been let through, wearing glamour to hide themselves.
Mac is starting to come in to her own. She is starting to realise that she too can keep secrets and bend the truth a little. Barrons is not easy to bluff, but Mac is trying it on for size, her ability to take charge of herself and do what is necessary to survive. Barrons is still using Mac aka Ms. Lane , toting her around the place as his personal detector for OOPS and the Sinsar Dubh ( She-suh-DOO) , no matter the pain inflicted upon her by the Sinsar Dubh . What is Barrons hiding ?
V'Lane will inevitably pop up and call in a bargain that Mac and he had struck and Barrons is ropeable. Mac will show Barrons that he won't always get his own way with her, he learns compromise but stays true to being mostly non negotiable. Barrons is letting a slither of a more interested man show through. Just a slither. Not every conversation is tense , there is a smile, a stare of her breasts a hunger in his eyes and a slight of humour. Barrons leaves a mobile for Mac with 3 numbers keyed in titled JB = Jericho Barrons, IYCGM = If you can't get me = Ryodan will answer, IYD = If you're dying . Ryodan will alude to things that makes you stop and think.
New characters are introduced. Are they friend or foe? Will Mac be welcomed or rejected? Will she get the answers she deserves?
Mac will find she has the fight of her life on her hands, the brutality that will be inflicted upon her will be excrutiating . Has it all gone too far? Will the Sinsar Dubh be found added to Barrons collection of OOPS?
Karen continues to write Barrons with such strength and power and to give Mac's character new strength. Nothing slows down in these books.
I can tell you I have finished 'Faefever' bk #3 and yes, in one day. These are not the type of books that let you take a break. Its all or nothing, the momentum of writing is steep. 3 books 3 days they are a blast!!!
FAVE QUOTES:
"One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence."
"Great. then I would be on the run." "You already are, Ms Lane. You have been ever since your sister died."
If he had been any other man and I'd been any other girl, I'd have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica.
"Whether I see the Fae, or whether I'm a man. I believe I've laid your mind to rest on the former; shall I relieve it on the latter?" He reached for his belt. "Oh please." I rolled my eyes. "You're a leftie, Barrons." "Touche', Ms. Lane, " he murmured.
FAEFEVER # 3
By: Karen Marie Moning
Published By: Dell, Delacorte
Released : Available Now
Details: Paperback, 370 Pages
RATING 5 STARS!!!! JUST LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!! MAKES THE HEART BEAT A BIT QUICKER. Book Blurb : Goodreads
He calls me his Queen of the Night. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sister’s journal, she is stunned by Alina’s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister’s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it. Mac’s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V’lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul.
BOOK REVIEW by Michelle 21st September 2010: Book 2, Bloodfever leaves us with Mac with her eyes on the prize, the ever elusive 'Sinsar Dubh' reeking havoc on her senses.
The 'Sinsar Dubh', has taken it up a notch, it is smarter than you think, it yields power you would not wish to meet. Barrons needs Mac to find it and get it. She is his personal OOPS detector in between running 'Barrons' Books and Baubles' , which is her only normalcy in this whole mess that was her life.
Inspector Jayne becomes more prominent and has an interesting 'tea Party' with Mac. It's very hard to know who to trust when reading these books. Barrons comes across so mysterious and unwilling to answer questions. 'Dreamy eyed guy ' is back , I can't place him in this story. Barrons is starting to be noticed by other players, more, something Barrons won't put up with. You learn a slither more about Barrons.
V'Lane naturally strikes again. He has upped it to bikinis and cocktails. I am beginning to think V'Lane becomes Mac's sunshine, his sifting rejuvinates her from all the dark and tenseness and manipulation and power Barrons pours onto Mac. V'Lane wants payment, naturally, he doesn't seem to not be able to resist Mac .He is the only one who does give Mac some answers. Can he be trusted????
Mac stands mainly on her own two feet in this book. Barrons is goodness knows where, doing goodness knows what as he won't say. Don't expect me home for dinner, or even expect me it's not how he rolls.
Dani 13yr old cussing Sidhe Seer is priceless as Mac's fiesty friend , they are like sisters. Dani believes in Mac and would do anything for her. She in her own right has a power. It's a shame Rowena at Arlington Abbey , Sidhe Seer headquarters doesn't trust and appreciate Mac for the power she is. Mac wants to belong to a group that understands her and to learn what she is. Rowena just doesn't want her . What does Rowena know that we don't know? Book one has kept me questioning a comment made by Rowena regarding Mac in the bar on their first meet. Rowena : "The dark Tuatha De! How dare you betray us! And you - an O'Connor, no less! I'll be having a word with your kin, I will!" It's the dark Tuatha De bit I am interested in...hmmmmm* waggles eyebrows*
There are little one off comments made in these books if you look for them. I have noted them but LOL!! find it hard to piece together when Barrons won't answer any questions Mac asks him.
Barrons appears to continue his one way street with Mac. 'Voicing' Mac . Pain is part of his life, it will be part of her life. He pushes Mac to get results. Is he doing it for the good? It's so hard to tell. But you so can't help really liking the guy. He shows slithers of emotion before he shuts down. Is he that bad......or is it for Mac's sake? I think when his emotions are on the brink of being a danger of showing Mac another side of him he has to make 'put down' , savage remarks to remind himself/stop himself. You feel him holding himself in check.
The 'MacHalo ' was the chapter that made me smile and 'feel' Barrons is okay before it gets quickly removed. He is always there for Mac but I just need him personally to be good. Or not evil, but not too bad. He is constantly saving her showing slithers of emotion when he thinks she can't register it. It's my only bit of hope I have that it's not a one way street , a means to his selfish end. He is lying and slanting the truth but why?
Mac seems to have a friend in Christian Mackeltar, but is he what he appears, can she trust him. Barrons, V'lane and Christian all seem to be interested in which other guy has got their wicked way with Mac. It's kind of a jealousy showing through . Mac repeatedly having to claim her innocence. All three guys snapping at her about who she has bedded.
Karen, I noticed the Spear incident with Mac and Barrons...don't think I didn't see that :D
The ending of this book is just WOW!!!!!!!!!! what more can I say? Nothing, as I will spoil. Karen likes to leave cliffhangers. WOW!!!!!!!!! maybe the reason I hunted the ebook down:D
FAVE QUOTES:
He cleared his throat and stopped laughing. Then his gaze took a quick dart upward, fixed on my blazing MacHalo , and he lost it again.
I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said 'I'm a Juicy girl' "I bet you are,"he murmured. "Take off your shirt," he said,...
"What are you?" It burst out before I could stop myself. I knew it was wasted breath. "Why don't you just tell me and get it over with?"I said irritably. "One day you'll stop asking me. I think I'll like knowing you then."
"I don't trust you!" "And you think I trust you? You haven't been out of ... diapers long enough to be trusted, Ms Lane! I'm not even sure you should be allowed to handle sharp objects!"
"Now tell me who you are." "Vengeance," I said in a cold voice.
He shook me hard. "You have no business looking forward to pink cakes. That's not your world anymore. Your world is hunting the Book and staying alive. They're mutually exclusive, you bloody fool."
DREAMFEVER # 4
Read this one on digital as I could not wait for the mail man...seriously the end of Faefever O.M.G!! Then I got paperback AND Hardback....went a bit silly, lol!
Blurb: Goodreads He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister's murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac's every thought-and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V'lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister's diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac's greatest enemy delivers a final challenge... It's an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth-about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons...and about the world she thought she knew.
BOOK REVIEW by Michelle 21st September 2010:
I must start by saying how much I am truly enjoying these books. So much that I could not wait for bk 4 to be released on paperback ( over 100 days, yes it is on order) , I ordered hardback, then couldn't wait the whole week for it to arrive. I was quite bouncy, agitated, needed to know!!!! I ended up with Ebook and I sat at my computer for hours on end reading and scrolling as WOW!!!! these books are worth it. These books are true 'one sitting' reads. Start to finish..boom!!!. I can't even fathom waiting a year between books, it seems cruel and unecessary. I have read them all , apart from bk #5 Shadowfever in rapid succession which makes for one hell of a ride. Once you get to the end of bk 4 you are kinda left in limbo...teetering...quite not sure of what to do with oneself as you know it's your own fault for reading them so quickly , not waiting until bk 5 was available, but once you start , there is no stopping..be WARNED!!!!
"I get knocked down, but I get up again,
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again,
You're never gonna keep me down..."
----Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Little Dani, trustworthy, loyal to the core becomes Mac's hope, protector. You come to realise what a power force little Dani is, a little legend a true warrior.
Mac is mentally lost , she doesn't exist anymore after the LM has finished with her.
Rowena still will not accept Mac, even in the state she has been left. Dani can only try. A broken little sex crazed doll of a shell of Mac is all that's left. She is an animal that must be satiated.
It's very touching and quite emotional to watch Mac brought back from the brink of sex crazed death. Mac makes an explosive comeback and is mad as all hell!!! What is trust??? It's been obliterated in her eyes.
What side is V'Lane on? Truths emerge hidden deep inside Barrons about his past. We get a glimpse into his soul. Barrons doesn't much like it either. What is up with V'Lane and Barrons?
Inspector Jayne has gone all Rambo and formed a possie attempting to stand his ground . His contribution to taking back Dublin and what the Garda stood for and he's liking the look of the Spear.
Alina's journal pages keep ending up on Mac's doorstep. Who can she trust apart from Dani? V'Lane, is he trustworthy? Barrons still will not answer Mac. "It's complicated". What sort of an answer is that? She deserved much better. Are lies /slanting of truth still spilling from Barrons lips? Mac is thinking the worst of Barrons, but does he deserve it? Barrons is hurting emotionally. To hide it is to be savage/tough with his words, usually directed at Mac.
Mac and Dani can only trust each other taking matters into their own hands, which is not necessarily a good idea. Do they get them or just more cryptic comments and threats?
Darroc aka LM has more instore for Mac. Darroc is relentless in his pursuit for the Book, the Sinsar Dubh. What is Barrons up to? Why does Barrons mind/past keep getting hacked into? What does the insight gained mean? Barrons needs Mac to fight, fight to get through this. To be 'voiced' is her undoing, she needs to be strong, unleash some of the power that she supposedly possesses, but doesn't understand. V'Lane, does he know more than he is letting on about Mac?
What does the old lady see?
Barrons has a plan, will it work ? Sometimes IYD isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The Fever series is a carnival ride, the Mad Mouse, sharps twists and turns and plummets of emotions at every book. I have the Fever bad!!! Will I survive until book 5 Shadowfever makes an appearance???
Don't expect alot of your questions answered in this book, they won't be. Barrons simply doesn't answer Mac. Expect a thrilling , erotic ride that doesn't slow down even at the end. This book is shrouded in mystery but one hell of a ride:D '
Heed my warning !! If you can't handle the Fever, then wait til you have 5 books to read in rapid succession. If you are tough , Mac style, then enjoy the first 4 and be left waiting for the 5th, as I have. I shall be rereading many times over until the 5th book is released.
FAVE QUOTES:
His tongue is in my mouth , and it's tearing apart my soul. Helpmesomeonepleasehelpmemakehimstopmakethemgoaway.
"Ah , Mac," he says, and his laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, "one day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more."
He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way."
"Revenge ," he says softly. "They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back. Revenge, Mac."
Come back and fight , Mac. Bloody hell, fight! If you'd just fight like you ***, you'd've walked out of this room the day I carried you in!"
"Don't leave me, "I thrash in the sheets. "I'm not Mac."... ... "You 're leaving me, Rainbow Girl."
Karen was killing me with these quotes.
SHADOWFEVER # 5
“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac.
Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”
By : Karen Marie Moning Published By :Delacorte Press, Dell Release Date : Available Now Details : Hardback , 594 Pages
RATING 5 BARRONS STARS OUT OF 5 STARS, IF I COULD GO MORE STARS I WOULD!!! Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads
MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.
Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.
What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.
In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.
Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?
From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.
BOOK REVIEW by Michelle 5th February 2011:
How do you do a review of Shadowfever without spoilers? I shall attempt to do this, I know I can. It's a book of long awaited answers to the mystery of it's characters and story .
I can't thank Lisa Sanchez , author of 'Eve of Samhain' ( pronounced Sowwhen) and 'Pleasures Untold', for recommending the first 4 books..... enough. Thanks bb!!!! It would be so sad to know that this series and I could have been like ships in the night, passing each other but never meeting.
Oh , the emotions you will feel reading 'Shadowfever', the final book in the series. Lisa recommended to me having the following items before reading:
Alcohol - to calm myself as intense read. Pillow - to punch or scream into ( I had excellent European sized pillow that worked a treat) Tissues - To dry the eyes... :( :( : (
I aptly named this , ' The Shadowfever Kit'. I have past the kit information on to my friends who are very serious about putting their kit together ... and so they should be:D
The emotions I felt when reading this book were, WT!!!!, O.M.G!!, sob!, I laughed, I was POWed!! stunned like a deer in headlights, absolutely flawed...the list goes on. My pillow got punched!!! My kit got used!! But most importantly I was totally satisfied by all the answers and reasons. Karen , you are a writing Goddess!!!
Mac's character has grown from Darkfever (MAC 1.0) to Shadowfever ( MAC 5.0)...... so well. Barrons character has always been written with so much strength and power you felt when reading him. The story from 'Darkfever' to 'Shadowfever' , was the most challenging, well thought out book series , I personally have read. I like an easy read like the next person. I love reading YA, Middle level, Hot Tamale reads. This series is just something else. It kept me so entertained. The discussions for weeks, months , that I had with bloggers, friends, other readers was a lot of fun with all the theories thrown around. The classic question being , 'what is Barrons?'
I love , Dani's character. It maybe just me, but when I read her I had a voice for her in my head ( don't laugh, I am very sane) her dialogue which really set her little character apart from the other sidhe-seers , would be in my head when reading and it made her character a lot of fun to read.
I thought Karen Moning did the most magnificent writing to get 4 books of answers and mystery to be totally satisfyingly answered in one book. She did not waste words. There were very intense times where I just had to read slowly as the story unravelled, details were thoroughly written in black and white.
I did shed a tear ( I always knew I would ), when I read those words...'The End'...but!!!!...there were 2 more words that followed which made me also go WT!!!!????...then I read the acknowledgments ( as I like to do) ...and then...I read , 'About The Author', (as I also like to do) and there it was written in black and white...a hope...I had a grin from ear to ear, the words..."and is currently working on a new series set in the Fever world and a graphic novel featuring Mackayla Lane."
Dani O'Malley is getting a Trilogy. Now!! I must state that I had predicted this amongst my fellow girlfriends who I have literally shoved the Fever series onto ( much to their delight) that after knowing that Karen couldn't leave the Fever World I thought Dani and Ryodan would be a wonderful smexi match. ( I saw the way Ryodan was watching Dani at Chester's when she was flitting about in the other room and his interest in her, albeit a young chicken at the time, but he did say something along the lines of , 'in time')
Now this is just my personal thoughts, only. Today over a nice lunch and champas with the girls I told them of what I had found and I atleast got the Dani bit right. I assume Karen will write her older than the wee 13yrs old she was in Fever series ( cause jailbait).....or not....???? I would love Ryodan to be her match, but..who knows with Karen she is a mistress of mystery.
According to Karen's facebook page these are the bits I have scrounged and by googling.
Karen's words quoted, not mine:
Because I keep getting this question, I’ve realized I've obviously not answered it to your satisfaction:) I'm going to post here and ask that you all help me in spreading the word around.
I'm currently working on a trilogy that features Dani, Christian MacKeltar, Ryodan, and the mysterious 'Dancer,' set primarily in Fever-Dublin. Each installment in the trilogy is a stand-alone mystery, however there are larger plot arcs unfolding in the background. Where Mac was introspective and her story could feel somewhat esoteric, Dani is down and dirty in the streets. Lots of details, lots of action. There’s a different feel to the two series, totally different vantage points. I’m having a blast writing it.
For those of you who have been worrying—the trilogy is not YA. If I had to categorize it, I would say it straddles the line between YA and adult uneasily. I don’t pull any punches. It may be controversial in some ways. But whose teen years weren’t? LOL! Many of the questions I left unanswered in the FEVER series are addressed in this new series.
Exciting news: I’ve agreed to write two more books after that. Once the new trilogy is complete, I’m returning to the core story begun in the FEVER series, and will resume writing about Mac, Barrons, V’lane, Cruce, the Unseelie king, the concubine, the Song of Making.
All in all, there are five more books coming about the Fever World! Because I know you guys, I know this is going to make some of you as nervous as it makes you excited. Trust me. I’m making no compromises with the characters or the story. It’s all unfolding exactly as it should, true to itself-which means, it’s a sometimes rocky road. Dark times ahead, guys. But I write it all with genuine love for the characters, the world, and you the reader.
Doesn't that just make you want to break out into a Barrons happy dance knowing Karen is returning to FEVER series with Barrons etc...to write two more books....Oh the pain of the wait.
Now as I understand it:
DANI O'MALLEY TRILOGY
BOOK 1
ICED
Release Date: October 30, 2012 ( Oh the wait!!!)
BOOK 2
BURNED
BOOK 3
FLAYED
( That title sounds painful:D)
If you haven't read the FEVER series by Karen Marie Moning and you want to read a brilliantly written series of 5 books, then GO !!! Get them. I recommend you have all 5 ready to go as once you start......
DARKFEVER # 1
BLOODFEVER # 2
FAEFEVER # 3
DREAMFEVER # 4
SHADOWFEVER # 5
Now of course these are very adult reads as they contain waaaaayyyy smexi matter. Just a heads up. My reviews are in left side bar. I try not to give any spoilers.
