Darkfever (Fever, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Feb 16, 2010 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, library-has-a-copy, fantasy-sci-fi-romance-romantasy, fantasy-science-fiction

This is a definite stick-with-it series. I like this book well enough, but wasn't overly wowed by it, however the plot itself and world-building where interesting enough that I wanted to read the other 3 Fever books and boy am I glad I did. But I digress. This is book one and we meet Mackayla "Mac" Lane who is an early 20's pretty blonde from the south who turns out to a very powerful fairy seer. She comes to Ireland to find out who murdered her sister who was also a fairy seer. To be quite fran This is a definite stick-with-it series. I like this book well enough, but wasn't overly wowed by it, however the plot itself and world-building where interesting enough that I wanted to read the other 3 Fever books and boy am I glad I did. But I digress. This is book one and we meet Mackayla "Mac" Lane who is an early 20's pretty blonde from the south who turns out to a very powerful fairy seer. She comes to Ireland to find out who murdered her sister who was also a fairy seer. To be quite frank I couldn't stand Mac in this book, she came across as wimpy, whiny and annoying and I wanted to slap her more than once. And she also gives girls who love pink (like me) a bad name in this book. She makes us all look like a bunch of whiny wimps. You can love pink and have backbone and be brave. Anyway, she gets to Ireland and ends up working in a bookstore called Barrons Books and Baubles owned by a guy named Jericho Barrons. Barrons is in a word, an enigma. He can see the fairies, in spite of the fact that there are not supposed to be male fairy seers and he is also incredibly wealthy and there's no mention of how he got so wealthy either, he seems to be a businessman of some kind. He's also very intelligent. And did I mention seriously hot? He has an accent and has dark skin and is muscular and, I'm digressing again. Barrons was a far more interesting character than Mac, like I said he's an enigma and frankly nearly everything about the man is a big fat question mark. So on the whole for the characters, they weren't my favorite part of this book, but at least on the whole they're pretty interesting. The plot on the other hand is very interesting and was definitly enough to hook me, I enjoyed the world building and Moning's mythology quite a bit. If you didn't like this book, I would advise reading book 2 before you give up on this series entirely. It gets quite a bit better and things really start to pick up and get interesting and Mac does a complete 180 from how she is in this book, she is no longer wimpy, whiny or annoying. But don't skip reading this book, in order to understand and enjoy the rest of the series and to be able to put things in context, book 1 needs to be read. In conclusion, this is a good start to what emerges to be one of the best urban fantasy series on the market today and although it's not perfect and the later books are better, this is worth reading. ...more

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Apr 24, 2011 Karen added it

I liked this book about the Fae, and I looked forward to reading the next one.

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Jul 18, 2009 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance-and-mystery, ireland

I'd read some of Moning's Highlander romances and been LESS than impressed, but I gave her one more chance, and I'm glad I did. This book starts weak, the writing is passable but entertaining, but then the plot gets moving and I don't care about the writing any more, finishes strong on an awful cliffhanger. I MUST read the next book in this series! ...more

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Nov 08, 2021 Kat rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021

Reminds me of a darker, smarter, less cheesy sookie stackhouse book. I liked it and looking forward to books 2!

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Apr 08, 2011 mstan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: irish, fantasy, src-summer-2011

A strangely addictive read and a guilty pleasure - reminiscent of Buffy in terms of its pseudo-bimbotic heroine, and just as filled with strange paranormal and fantastical phenomena. Set in the atmospheric city of Dublin - but the protagonist is from Georgia (!).

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