Book #127: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

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Darkfever  by Karen Marie Moning

• Hardback
• Pages:  447
• Original Published Date:  2006
• Awards:  Romantic Times nominee for best modern day fantasy novel, Double Audie Award Finalist, Winner RBL Romantica 2006 Hughies: Best "Other" Paranormal, Best Title
• Series: Fever
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• My Rating:  C+

Product Description:  Drawing on elements from the paranormal world that bestseller Moning (Spell of the Highlander) created in her earlier romances, this suspense novel takes readers on a darker journey, one dominated by the search for a powerful Faery magic and bereft of the romantic magic Moning's fans have come to expect. When MacKayla Lane, an ordinary young woman, travels to Ireland to track down her sister's murderer, she is sucked into an extraordinary world filled with ancient secrets, vampires, assorted Fae nasties and other tough-to-kill beings. In the process, Mac learns of her own unusual talents and finds an unlikely mentor in the wealthy and mysterious Jericho Barrons. Moning's newest foray contains suspense and plenty of setup. Indeed, this reads like a fragment of a larger story, an introduction to character and place that, while entertaining, skims the surface. But it's a compelling world filled with mystery and vivid characters, and this, combined with the hint of sparks between Jericho and Mac, will stoke readers' fervor for Bloodfever, the next installment.

My Review:  Overall, this was a pretty decent one.  It wasn't wonderful, but it was decent.  Something about Mac annoyed me.  Maybe it's that she's one of those super appearance obsessed girls and I'm so far from that it's ridiculous.  Her protestations that everything was just crazy got old after a while in the beginning.  The weird sex things with the sex-fae thing were just weird and out of place.  It didn't fit the rest of the book.  Barrons kind of annoyed me at times too.  I'll read more of this series if the library has it, but other than that, I'm not going to look to hard for it or anything.

Next Up:  Girls Just Wanna Have Guns by Toni McGee Causey


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