Review: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Book Info
Released: October 31, 2006
Series: Fever #1
Pages: 309
Readers, if you haven’t read this series yet, then I highly suggest you do. Just make sure you have all the books on hand because one, you won’t be able to stop and two, there are killer cliffhangers that made me wish to hang myself.
I am not a Fae person. I don’t often enjoy stories that involve the Seelie and Unseelie Court. To me, it was a bunch of blah-blah before I started this series. Fever has changed how I see Fae.
The dark, creepy creatures in this book really caught my attention. And it’s no wonder why I shared Mac’s interest and sometimes disgust concerning the Fae. Moning’s Fae are unlike anything I’ve read before.
And then there’s Mac whom I adore. Mac has learned that her sister was murdered in Dublin while studying abroad. Now, Mac takes initiative where the Garda haven’t and she finds herself hitting the Dublin streets in search of answers to her sister’s murder.
There she encounters Jericho Barrons, the most worldly of men and most likely a total jerk as well. Swapping information with one another, Mac soon learns about a world she never knew existed before.
She also learns many things about herself.
The Fever series is one of my favourite urban fantasy series. Nothing tops a man of mystery and a kickass heroine against a world of dark Fae creatures that do more than just go bump in the night.
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About Karen Marie Moning
“The only other calling I ever felt was an irrepressible desire to be Captain of my own Starship. I was born in the wrong century and it wasn’t possible, so I chose to explore the universe by writing fiction instead. Books are doors to endless adventure.” -KMM
Karen Marie Moning was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1964, the daughter of Anthony R. and Janet L. Moning. The family moved to a self-sustaining farm in Indiana when she was six years old, where she spent her youth raising cows, horses, tobacco, corn and other crops with her sisters and brother.
An alum of the Immaculate Conception Academy, at seventeen she attended Purdue University where she completed a BA in Society & Law, with minors in Philosophy, Creative Writing and Theatre, while working full time as a bartender and computer consultant. She intended to go to law school but after an internship with a firm of Criminal Attorneys, decided against it. For the next decade, she worked in insurance, where she wrote intercompany arbitrations and directed commercial litigation. At the age of thirty, she decided it was time to get serious and do what she’d always wanted to do: write fiction novels.
Beyond the Highland Mist was published in 1999 and nominated for two RITA awards. She then published six more novels in her award-winning HIGHLANDER series, and received the RITA Award in 2001 for The Highlander’s Touch.
In 2004, she began writing the #1 New York Times bestselling FEVER series. The books have been optioned twice for potential franchise development by Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Studios, but the rights are currently held by Moning who has expressed a desire to one day see it as a television series. Her novels have been published in thirty-five countries and are performed on audio by Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross. She divides her time between Ohio and Florida and is working on two future projects for Random House Publishing.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
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This series was one of the ones I wanted to read this year but didn’t get a chance to. Great review. I’ll put it on my list for next year 😀
I agree, you must have all the books in this series on hand before you start the first one. Once you start you will not be able to stop! I have read this series a handful of times, and each time it gets better!
@Paranormal Haven This is a great UF series. But I suggest that if you start this, make sure you have all the books in the series. major cliffhangers are present that will make you pull your hair out 🙂
Yay for this review! The 5 books of this series are my absolute all time favorites. Love doesn’t even cover it. I have never read something so amazing, and like you, I couldn’t have cared less about “fairies” before these books. Here’s my review for Darkfever: http://geobobspinelli.blogspot.com/p/5-star-faves.html
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I just acquired all, but Shadowfever and will remedy that shortly. These are the books I have chosen for the reading challenge.
Can’t wait!
I LOVE this series especially yummy Jericho Barrons!!!
One of my all time favorite series! FYI- Dark Fever is on sale right now on Amazon for $1.99!
The only bad thing I can say about this series is that it set the bar so high that it’s very hard finding another good series!
This and the Outlander series are my favorites of all time!! I looove this series. I’m glad you don’t have to go trough the agony of waiting for the next book.
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts about following books..
Yeah, this is a tough one to top. Definitely one of my faves in UF for sure!
Awesome review, Annie! I still haven’t read any of the fever series yet. I’m SO looking forward to meeting JB 😀