Product Description BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Marie Moning's Bloodfever.
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….
New readers Beware -- Will leave you emptyJuly 30, 2010 Donna L. Rich(Baltimore, Maryland) Had I known what I was getting into with the Fever series, I would have waited until all 5 books were finished. Typically one expects a novel to be complete, even if it leads into a continuing saga. The books in the fever series do not follow this, they are a single story, organized into 5 separate books or as Ms. Moning calls them "installments", each with a cliffhanger that leaves you feeling empty -- albeit wanting more, if only to know how the story ends. To me the series feels more like a made for SyFy TV miniseries that should be aired over the course of weeks, not years. It is a little unfair to fans to have to pay complete novel prices for the books, but not get a complete story in any of them. I was pulled in and now must wait until the final installment is published in January 2011 to get to the end of the story, and believe me, it's too long to wait.
Still having said this, the "installments" are seductive, page-turning thrillers. The story pulls you in, like an addiction, and once you are hooked, you devour each book, raging from one "fix" to another. Problem is now, I'm going through painful withdrawal. Of course I'll read the final installment, but I am not sure I will invest this type of energy in anymore of Ms. Moning's incomplete works -- at least not until they are complete. It's just too frustating.
After January 18, 2011 when the final installment is scheduled to be released, I highly recommend the series as long as you are committed to reading (and paying for) all 5 installments. Before January 18th, begin this series at your own risk!
Snack-sized funJuly 27, 2010 Newfern(Round Rock, TX) The only thing keeping me from giving this a 5 star is that the five books should have been published as one. Every book so far ends practically mid-sentence, definitely mid-thought/action, worse than Lord of the Rings. I read all four books in one week, and yes, I have a day job.
These are crunchy snack food: tasty; light reading; and based in a good mythology. Though I am as desperate for the two main characters to finally come together, I appreciate the author's attempt to make this a fantasy novel (A Novel, not 5) rather than a romance.
The first book was a little hard for me to get into, never having been or known a perky, pink-laced woman-child. But as her eyes are opened, fairly literally, to the world at large, we start to wonder what else is out there, and how Barrons fits in.
And how we wish he'd fit in. Admit it, if there was a "[...]" this author would never have to write another thing to be set for life... after "book" 5, that is.
I will definitely be re-reading all of these just before ordering the 5th installment. Because I can.
Great Read!!!!!July 26, 2010 K. Ledbetter 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book very much! I love to read about the fae and vamps and all that supernatural stuff. This book has a great story behind it, I could stand a little more romance but I think that will come in the other books.
Dark FantasyJuly 25, 2010 Peaches(California) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Despite my aversion to reading Urban Fantasy and first person narrative, I love stories rooted in druid and faerie legend so out of deference to Karen M. Moning's outstanding Highlanders series when I saw a copy of Dark Fever on the free shelf at the library, I decided to give the author's Fever series a try.
Moning's plot premise of fae magic is intriguing; however, her female protagonist is anything but. I was far more intrigued by the enigmatic Jerricho Barrons and the mysterious fae, V'lane. Terry Brooks' Shannara series is far superior fantasy series of druid/mystical world-building and storytelling.
The motivation behind stretching this thin story premise into five books and hawking Fever trinkets on the author's web page is to market these books as a potential script treatment. Mac certainly comes across as a dense, self-centered Buffy/Sookie Stackhouse-esque character who is simply bestowed with super powers.
So far, I feel compelled to finish reading this the series since it is incomplete but I have no desire to invest in the books. I only read subsequent books when they are available at library and feel no compulsion to write a review for Faefever, Bloodfever, or Dreamfever, inasmuch as narrator and protagonist Mac shows very little promise of growth or maturity and the storyline only grows darker.
I just hope that Mac doesn't end up with Christian...D-student and southern hick has no place among the intelligent, witty, and educated MacKeltar women.
Love it!July 24, 2010 J. STEWART(North Carolina) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At first when I started I thought I would be confused with all the different types of characters, but I could'nt put it down and finished it in 3 days. I loved this book. I loved the characters Mac and Barrons, the story line. I will be purchasing the rest of the series.
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