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Darkfever (Fever, #1)

Karen Marie Moning

Start date: May 1, 2012

Finish date: May 31, 2012

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Jul 16, 2009 Dina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: to-review, 2014-dhasg-challenge, ebook, urban-fantasy, 1st-person-pov

3 1/2 stars (rounded down to 3 stars, because Mac was borderline TSTL, even though she tried to convince me she wasn't, and her obsession with her fingernail polish was OTT) ...more

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Feb 14, 2009 Shawna rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, hero-alpha‎, 2011-reads, heroine-beautiful-bombshell, hero-uber-alpha-domineering, hero-badass-kickass, hero-cold-cruelbrute-dark-dangerous, hero-antihero-gamma, hero-bad-guy-ruthless-villainous, hero-sharp-dressed-man

3 ½-4 stars – Urban Fantasy

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Aug 04, 2009 Adele rated it it was amazing

OMG I just did a marathon reading session with this book.
how have I avoided this series before today.
the ending was a bit of a cliffhanger in my books.....I had to actually check that there was no pages torn from the book cause it just ends and I expected more.
well I suppose there is more...in the next book.
OK first thing tomorrow I'm going to the library to get the next book in the series.
definitely on my to buy list. ...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Alisha rated it liked it

Twenty-two year-old "pretty girl" MacKayla "Mac" Lane lives a pretty good life: she's got a pair of loving parents, a sister who's also her best friend, and the security of a "homey" small-town community in Georgia. In the blink of an eye, Mac's world is shaken with the news about her sister's violent (and mysterious) death. In flying to Dublin, Ireland to investigate the details surrounding the murder, Mac finds that everything she thought she knew about her life--even herself--was not what it Twenty-two year-old "pretty girl" MacKayla "Mac" Lane lives a pretty good life: she's got a pair of loving parents, a sister who's also her best friend, and the security of a "homey" small-town community in Georgia. In the blink of an eye, Mac's world is shaken with the news about her sister's violent (and mysterious) death. In flying to Dublin, Ireland to investigate the details surrounding the murder, Mac finds that everything she thought she knew about her life--even herself--was not what it seemed.

I don't know, rating this book was a toughy. I didn't dislike the book, but I can't say it was all that exciting, either. I read the book fairly quickly (in mostly one sitting), but it was mostly because I felt like there was a lot of potential, which might have been successfully realized on the next page, just maybe (maybe!).

...Yeah, that didn't ever really work out so much. The book felt a lot like one really long prologue (as of this writing I've read the first few chapters of the second book in this series, Bloodfever, and it basically sums up the first book to the point that I could've skipped it altogether and been fine starting with the second installment).

All of that having been said...there was some decent world building. I mean that literally, too: the atmosphere, the city of Dublin, the locales, the faerie lore. As for the characters, they were all great big enigmas even by the end of the book, with the exception of Mac, the narrator and protagonist. I'm sure this was the intention, however...just enough tidbits of information were given about some of the main characters (Mac's parents, her deceased sister Alina, her reluctant-partner-in-crime Jericho Barrons, and Barrons' assistant Fiona) to foster a good deal of interest in delving even further into their stories.

The way I'll look at it is, this was a slow burner that has potential to fuel a pretty mean fire in subsequent books.

Addendum to original entry:I suppose it's worth mentioning that this book is the first in a finite five-book series. That's to say, it was planned to be 5 books from the get-go. Doesn't change my rating, but does help me understand some of the reasoning behind the structure and content of the book. ...more

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Oct 15, 2009 Lara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: top-5-fav-series, favorites

WOW! I could not put this series down and am dying for the next one to come out. I believe Jericho Barrons is my alltime favorite male lead crush ;)!! I found these in the Fantasy section and then realized they were in the Romance as well which turned me off at 1st. I love Romance but a lot of what I have read is just TOO much for me. If all of them had the mix Moning put in these - I would go through every book in the section! Action, love, fantasy, thrilling/suspenseful, and humorous. I may ju ...more

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