Book Series Review: Fever Series {Books #1-4} by Karen Marie Moning

 

 

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….

From Goodreads {Blurb of the first book in the series, Darkfever}.

 

• Publisher: Razorbill
• Release Date Darkfever: October 31st, 2006
• Release Date Bloodfever: October 16th, 2007
• Release Date Faefever: September 16th, 2008
• Release Date Dreamfever: August 25th, 2009  
• My Copies: Kindle Edition/Bought. 
• Series: Fever Series
• Genre: Urban Fantasy 
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By Karen Marie Moning: Darkfever (Fever Series, Book 1)

Bloodfever: The Fever Series (A Mackayla Lane Novel)

Faefever: The Fever Series

Dreamfever: The Fever Series

*Contains minor spoilers of the first book {Darfever}

I fought the Fever for as long as I could! I was bombarded with tweets saying how amazing this series is, people telling me that they were succumbing to the Fever and suffering from its latest symptom, the killer cliffhanger left after Dreamfever and I simply said: NO! No, I won’t come down with this Fever and deal with the wait for this final installment and suffer like everybody else! And I also thought to myself, “Who the Hell is this Barrons dude people keep swooning over?”, even though I have Curran, Zsadist, Bones and so many more lovely males to keep me company, that alone let me intrigued.

I gave in an inch when I purchased the four books in the series that were available, but I still didn’t read them. I was going to avoid suffering this cliffhanger for as long as possible… and I almost did it! Damn it! Last week I gave in to the Fever and now, there is NO turning back! I am a convert and I am burning up!

Confession time… Darkfever didn’t impress me. I didn’t love it and I was not blown away at all. We meet this shallow woman named Mac that is self-absorbed and selfish even when dealing with the loss of her dear sister. We get this jerk of a man that is so rude and tough that even his hotness I ended up ignoring for a while. Add to the mix a Fae Prince that has such a strong sexual vibe that the heroine almost gets raped in the middle of a museum. I cringed and almost put the book down, let alone thought about reading the next installments, but thanks to my blogging and tweeting friends I didn’t give up… I am SO glad I didn’t!

I came to realize that my problems with Darkfever were all about the characters and not the story or the writing. THe characters need to be the way they are at that point and only by continuing reading the series and opening my mind and heart to the Fever, I was able to appreciate the amazing job KMM has done with this series.

I devoured all four books in a few days! I have to warn you that each book kills you a little bit with a cliffhanger in the end, but since they are all out already, that can be dealt with by simply buying the next one LOL The Fever series is a flower amongst deserted lands. It’s a Jewel I regret not having harvested before.

There is so much action and such an incredible world building in this series that you will probably consider calling a couple sick days at work, so you can sink your teeth into these novels. Mac’s journey is one of incredible strife, she is a woman seeking vengeance and finding that the world she knows is nothing like she thought. She is put through some extreme and simply unbelievable situations and she comes out better and stronger every single time! I went from hating her guts to admiring her through the novels and I have the brilliancy of KMM’s storytelling to thank for that!

Barrons… what can I say about the mystery that this man is? Now I understand why so many of my twitter friends swoon over him. He is hot and sexy in a VERY Alpha male way, dare I say… that he is the Most Alpha male of them all? I DARE!

After the astounding cliffhanger we were left with at the end of Dreamfever, I can’t wait for January 18th to arrive. I have a lot of expections about the last book in the series, Shadowfever. The most important? I want Mac and Barrons together… I know this isn’t a Paranormal Romance, but I have hopes for those two and since KMM has said that the is a romance in the series, I can’t wait to see how she makes it happen!

My dear readers, if you have the Fever there is not much I can’t say that you don’t know already, but if you haven’t read this series yet… Get your ass in gear and buy these books RIGHT NOW! I promise you won’t be disappointed!

 

Next & Last in The Fever Series:

Coming Out January 18th, 2011! 

  

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