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Darkfever (Fever, #1)

Karen Marie Moning

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Aug 23, 2008 Terri rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, vampires, urban-fantasy, celtic, fairies-faeries, set-in-ireland

Mac goes to Dublin to find her sister's kilelr. Only what she finds is going to shatter her world. She is a Sidhe seer and sees the Fae. She is caught up in events way beyond her understanding. She has the help of Barrons but he also is using her for his own ends.

I liked the book but felt it left way too many questions open at the end. And yes it is a series, but even series books should be satisfying as stand alones. This almost was. and yes I will need to read the next one to see some answes t ...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi-romance-romantasy, romance, library-has-a-copy, 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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Nov 01, 2008 pianogal rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal

Ok, this book is probably only a 3, but I spotted it an extra star b/c I'm hoping it will resolve itself better in the next book. I liked the characters, but could have gotten some more answers, instead of just more questions. What in the world is Barrons? What relationship does he have with Fiona? How can a whole city just not notice when sections go missing? I probably have more questions, but I'll have to think of them. Hopefully book 2 will give me some answers...

Also, it kinda bugged me tha ...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Davina Bell rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: davina-2011, mystery

Pretty good read!!! It truly was an introduction into the world of the Fae. It seemed like a combination between Janet Evanovich and Paranormal mystery. I like this combination. It left me a few questions that I am guessing will be answered in the next novels. It sparked my interest to want to read the remaining novels. I would recommend it to other Paranormal or the unexplain fans.

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Aug 22, 2007 Lisa Lap rated it it was ok

Shelves: paranormal

It was hard to get into this book for some reason. It took me a lot longer than it usually would. I guess I was hoping it would be more along the lines of her Highlander series and it's completely different. Since it's a series I'm hoping it will become less confusing as it goes along. ...more

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