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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)

Karen Marie Moning

Start date: January 23, 2012

Finish date: February 16, 2012

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Mar 02, 2014 Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* rated it really liked it

Shelves: a-own-book-form, popular-with-friends, book-boyfriend, reviewed, monsters, unusual-creatures, 4-star, read-more-than-once, magic-powers, part-of-series

“It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.”

Reviewing after re-reading.

The story isn’t as complex as I remembered it to be, but this time around I enjoyed it more than the first book (although I loved that one too). Fast-paced, this was a breeze to fly through. Unlike the first book, the author has laid off the foreboding hints of that’s to come and stays in the present tense more.

Barrons goes from jerk you want to strangle to book boyfriend “It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.”

Reviewing after re-reading.

The story isn’t as complex as I remembered it to be, but this time around I enjoyed it more than the first book (although I loved that one too). Fast-paced, this was a breeze to fly through. Unlike the first book, the author has laid off the foreboding hints of that’s to come and stays in the present tense more.

Barrons goes from jerk you want to strangle to book boyfriend in a flash, then back and forth again. Mac’s tendency to overindulge in pink fashion and girly notions still amuses me, but she is mixing it now with the new and “toughened” Mac.

You don’t get a full force of plot progression with this one in the grand scheme of themes (understood once the full first five books are read and finished), but we do wrap up with one villain in particular, get a big scene with V’Lane, Fiona turns into an even bigger green-eyed monster than the first book showed, and there’s hints of future plot pieces to come (like that rumbling in the garage…)

Oh, and the bookstore gets some redecorating!

Mac learns more about who she is and some connections she has to other living sidhe-seers. There’s some tension with a detective trying to find out what happened to his brother, and Dani is actually still pretty likable by this point.

While it doesn’t move forward in the bigger scheme of things full-force, the tension and obstacles in this story were fascinating and kept me glued. Barrons and Mac’s relationship holds promise but is a confusing mess still. The shades are still creepy and the other dark fae still ugly. There was a beautiful story with Mac and her sister, even if it was fae influenced, that shows the author has a knack for creating very real imagery with her writing – I could almost smell out the salt from the sea and feel the sun on my skin myself.

The second book may have less action to a degree, but it holds more punch for the worldbuilding, fleshing out the characters, and upping the odds for things to come. Moning does a great job of having so many characters, worldbuilding, and small sub-plots to make this one sensationally layered, unique and addicting. ...more

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Jan 14, 2016 Connie N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2nd-in-series, ireland, fantasy-fairies, moon-on-cover, urban-fantasy

#2 in the Fever series

I enjoyed this much more by reading it rather than listening since I could create the voices I imagined rather than the ones the narrator provided. This moves the story along nicely, letting us get to know Mac much better as she discovers more about herself and her capabilities. She overcomes some problems, but she also realizes she needs help with those she can't yet deal with. Barrons seems to be on her side, but it's hard to tell, especially when he displays powers great ...more

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Dec 05, 2012 Charlotte (Buried in Books) rated it liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, fae

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Better than the first book, but sometimes Mac's internal dialogue got a little bit too wordy for me.

So this book picks up shortly after the first, with Mac recovering from her injuries. The policeman looking at her sisters death mysteriously dies and a fellow officer (his brother-in-law) starts watching her. The brother of the gangster she killed drops in as well, as does her father. She also appears to have her own personal grim reaper following her where-ever she goes.

Barrons returns to his in ...more

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Oct 21, 2011 Morgan rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal, kindle-read, romance, fiction, post-apocalyptic-dystopic-utopia, faeries, aliens

Another borrowed from my library on my Kindle.

Definitely where my frustration with Mac started to get the better of me.

Didn't slow me down in reading it though. ...more

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Dec 06, 2015 Stacey rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook

I've now finished the first 2 of these books in a relatively short time period. I can say that Mac is growing on me like many said she would--the fact that she isn't describing every outfit she puts on anymore is helping. But can someone please tell me that eventually I will find out that Barrons isn't a complete ass? ...more

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