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Darkfever: The Fever Series |  | Author: Karen Marie Moning
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  338 reviews
Sales Rank: 866
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 382
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000MAH7SQ
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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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….
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 Enthralling page turner! Loved it so much I had to read it again...and again! September 10, 2010
J Boyce
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You know what it is like to be so captivated by a book and the characters in it that when the book ends you are sad that there aren't anymore chapters? That is how I felt after reading this book. The author has a magical writing style that draws you in so subtley that within a few pages you are completely invested into what is happening. I tore through the pages so quickly that I was surprised that I had reached the end!
I literally did not want to put the book down, so I flipped back through the pages trying to "re-live" some of the events. What I found on my second read through was a new appreciation for just how sublte this author is. She tossed away foreshadowing bits of information that I completely missed on my race to finish - and discovering them made me LOL!
I have recommended this book to friends and family, both male and female, of ages from teen to retired. They have all loved it as much as I have and eagerly await the next installment in the series. Now I recommend to you, read the first chapter and see for yourself just how enthralling this author is! Happy reading =)
 Good Beginning September 9, 2010
S. McCullough (Indianapolis, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I basically picked up this book becasue all of my book resources recommend this series as a standout. I am not ready to agree to that yet but I did like this book and I will read the rest of the series.
Our heroine Mac has received flack online for being 'too stupid to live' or too involved with make up and fashion. I didn't find her too stupid at all. Any mistakes she made could have been made by anyone thrust into this crazy new world. Mac goes to Dublin to investigate her sister's murder and learns what she believes led to her sister's death...both of the sisters can see the fae. Somehow the dark and evil fae are coming into our world in larger numbers. One of them, or something involved with them, has killed Mac's sister.
Mac does go on sometimes about make up and such. Its not a lot compared to some paranormal chick lit on shelves now, but for this type of book it did stand out. maybe it will be toned down as the series progresses.
I like the character of Barrons. The man is rude and mean but I was never sure if he was all good or all bad. That kept him entertaining. I also like Moning's writing. I wasn't fond of the idea of the relics and the quest for them. I personally usually find that type of story tedious. The plot could get old with this fast.
Moning does a great job of ending the story in a way that isn't frusterating but still leaves things open and the reader wanting answers. As long as the rest of the books in this series are at least this good they should be worth reading.
 Angieville: DARKFEVER September 9, 2010
Angela Thompson (Rocky Mountains)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I was offered the chance to review DARKFEVER, I immediately accepted. I've heard so many good things about this series. I've heard it straddles urban fantasy and paranormal romance. I've heard it features a strong and likable protagonist as well as a rich world full of mythological beings, yet set in present-day Ireland. All of which things served to pique my interest. This was my first Karen Marie Moning book and I had high hopes for it as it is the first in a series of four books so far. The fifth and next installment--Shadowfever--will be published early next year. As a longtime series reader, I like coming into an already established set every now and again. It goes a little ways toward balancing out all the others you've got lined up and are waiting impatiently for.
MacKayla "Mac" Lane is Southern belle through and through. Born and bred in Georgia, she and her big sister Alina followed their mother's proper example. But while Alina was always the studious straight laced daughter, Mac was the laid back one. Dropping out of college after a couple of semesters, she takes a job tending bar in a local pub and working on her tan in the off hours. Then the world comes crashing down around her. Her sister Alina is murdered while on study abroad in Dublin. And it isn't your run-of-the-mill mugging gone wrong. Alina's body was literally torn apart and the Dublin police have all but closed the case for lack of evidence. Sick of watching her parents sink further and further into depression and grief, Mac hops a plane to Ireland determined to make the police see reason and reopen her sister's case until the culprit is caught and brought to justice. Just before her death, Alina left a hysterical and cryptic message on Mac's phone and it is that fragment of a clue that pushes Mac deeper into the Dublin underground than she thought possible. And it is there that she discovers the fairy tales she read as a child--the things that go bump in the night--aren't so made up after all.
Essentially, DARKFEVER reads like Sookie Stackhouse-lite. Mac is blond and beautiful like Sookie. She likes nice things and she's smarter than people take her for. But she doesn't possess quite the depth of the telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps. I wanted to like her, but her cluelessness and lack of spark began to wear on me after awhile. I appreciated the Dublin setting with the rain and the fog, the endless pubs and the warm, cozy bookstores popping up out of nowhere. But the world itself never leaped off the page at me. Similarly, the Celtic mythology and the various factions of fae are right up my alley, but . . . I don't know. Some vibrant element was missing and my interest palled and eventually stalled out. The glossed over writing and characterization left me with only vague impressions of who, what, and where. The dark and deceptive Jericho Barrons who Mac encounters shortly after arriving in Dublin, and with whom she is repeatedly thrown together to find the object her sister was looking for, clearly works for many readers. But I found him unlikable and callous, any redeeming qualities failing to materialize in time for my affections to be engaged. I think I would have appreciated a little more backbone and a little less pink lip gloss from Mac and a little less chauvinistic manhandling and a little more complexity from Jericho. Or at least a stronger connection between the two to keep me going. I like that there is no precipitous romance in this first book, but as these two are the pillars on which the book rests, I needed to at least believe in some reason why they would be friends. And I just didn't. Overall, I finished DARKFEVER lukewarm at best and, with so many options out there, I will not be continuing on with the series.
Reading Order: DARKFEVER, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, and Shadowfever
 beware the "Irish" accent September 1, 2010
Sparrow
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What started as a story that could have been a mildy entertaining read, turned out to be a dissapointment bordering on the insulting.
For all the research the author must have done in order to give decent descriptions of places in Dublin and use of the Irish language, she completely lost me at her first dialogue of the main character with an Irish character. Irish people do not speak like that. I quote:"Evenin' t'ye, m'dear," the desk clerk said cheerfully. (wait for it...wait for it....) "Opin you 'ave reserves, a'sure ye'll be needin' 'em such a foine night th'season."
If you can't do an accent right, don't do it.
It was good enough... August 30, 2010
Michele S (Westchester Couny, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
that I kept reading and the 2nd and 3rd book in the series are even better!
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