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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
2.75 stars?
O boy...so this isn't what I was expecting coming straight from [b:Feversong|12446825|Feversong (Fever, #9)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1458832646s/12446825.jpg|17429860]. The last book had so much action, quick pacing to the story, and amusing character interactions. Unfortunately, none of that carried over to this book. [b:High Voltage|35457273|High Voltage (Fever, #10)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503486372s/35457273.jpg|41217240] had a horrendously slow & meandering plot and the characters were mostly frustrating.
The story was mainly Dani's inner dialogue/self-contemplating, very much like how Mac was written in the other books. There was a villain that was barely fleshed out and thenvanquished within a tiny chapter. It didn't feel dangerous to me, just run of the mill "villain of the week" type of thing. I didn't feel any suspense because I assumed it would all work out in the end.
Oh yeah, and there's also a convoluted love story between Dani & Ryo. I had a lot of trouble buying into their romance, the character didn't seem consistent with how they were in previous books (Dani turned into Mac and Ryo softened to an unrecognizable degree). The romance was lack-luster at best, even the eventual love scene between them wasn't worth the build up in my opinion. I would've preferred Dani be paired with Dancer, as he would've given her a healthier relationship overall. Healthy relationships don't tend to sell books though, so I get why KMM pulled the cord on Dancer.
I had to take major points off due to how bored I was while reading as well. This was the first time in the entire series that I actively had to skim read. I think I'm finally throwing in the towel with KMM. Those constant inner monologues killed my interest time and time again. I just can't seem to make myself care about the things that KMM wants the reader to care about.
That ending felt random as hell. So Dani is a Hunter/dragon...and will turn into a planet eventually...and Shazam is also a Hunter/dragon, but switches genders between forms, & is somehow simultaneously Dani's "child" and "mother", & was the one who kick-started Dani & Ryo's destiny 3 thousand years ago....umm...okay....sure.... I don't know man. The weird twist felt like a desperate grab to catch people off guard because everything else was so predictable. I don't have anything against odd twists, but they need to match the story that preceded that twist. What KMM did here felt extremely disjointed from the serious tone that rest of the series possessed. This book ended in a very cartoony manner, which would've been fine if the rest of the books had that tone, but they weren't like that at all. It felt like it was trying too hard to be something it wasn't.
Also, there are so many plot holes/unfinished story/character arcs from the previous books that I've lost interest/count of how many things were left with loose ends. I know there will be more books, but I feel like this series has a hard time delivering on genuinely satisfying conclusions. Every time we get a partial answer to something, it opens up a never-ending list of questions that feel like they never get resolved.
[b:High Voltage|35457273|High Voltage (Fever, #10)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503486372s/35457273.jpg|41217240] was just "meh" in my opinion. Glad other people liked it, but damn it just really didn't work for me.
O boy...so this isn't what I was expecting coming straight from [b:Feversong|12446825|Feversong (Fever, #9)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1458832646s/12446825.jpg|17429860]. The last book had so much action, quick pacing to the story, and amusing character interactions. Unfortunately, none of that carried over to this book. [b:High Voltage|35457273|High Voltage (Fever, #10)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503486372s/35457273.jpg|41217240] had a horrendously slow & meandering plot and the characters were mostly frustrating.
The story was mainly Dani's inner dialogue/self-contemplating, very much like how Mac was written in the other books. There was a villain that was barely fleshed out and then
Oh yeah, and there's also a convoluted love story between Dani & Ryo. I had a lot of trouble buying into their romance, the character didn't seem consistent with how they were in previous books (Dani turned into Mac and Ryo softened to an unrecognizable degree). The romance was lack-luster at best, even the eventual love scene between them wasn't worth the build up in my opinion. I would've preferred Dani be paired with Dancer, as he would've given her a healthier relationship overall. Healthy relationships don't tend to sell books though, so I get why KMM pulled the cord on Dancer.
I had to take major points off due to how bored I was while reading as well. This was the first time in the entire series that I actively had to skim read. I think I'm finally throwing in the towel with KMM. Those constant inner monologues killed my interest time and time again. I just can't seem to make myself care about the things that KMM wants the reader to care about.
That ending felt random as hell.
Also, there are so many plot holes/unfinished story/character arcs from the previous books that I've lost interest/count of how many things were left with loose ends. I know there will be more books, but I feel like this series has a hard time delivering on genuinely satisfying conclusions. Every time we get a partial answer to something, it opens up a never-ending list of questions that feel like they never get resolved.
[b:High Voltage|35457273|High Voltage (Fever, #10)|Karen Marie Moning|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503486372s/35457273.jpg|41217240] was just "meh" in my opinion. Glad other people liked it, but damn it just really didn't work for me.
How can KMM transform Dani from an obnoxious and annoying brat, to this amazing character with the strongest and most painful background story, then create her alter ego-equally amazing, if not more-then rise her again from the ashes painstakingly slow, only to give her such an abysmal and completely unsatisfying ending, I will never understand.
The only good thing about this book was Dancer's letter, because let's face it, Dancer was great in everything he did, and quite frankly after reading High Voltage, I think he deserved better than Dani.
Such a disappointment.
That being said, I'm very curious to see what her next "Fever" book will be about. Mac's fight with the Fae perhaps? But I thought Mac's story was over...? Hm.
The only good thing about this book was Dancer's letter, because let's face it, Dancer was great in everything he did, and quite frankly after reading High Voltage, I think he deserved better than Dani.
Such a disappointment.
That being said, I'm very curious to see what her next "Fever" book will be about. Mac's fight with the Fae perhaps? But I thought Mac's story was over...? Hm.
I think I may have outgrown this series. I love the inventiveness of the Fae monsters but this book was too much internal struggle, guilt, and other angst. Too much focus on whether Dani and Ryodan would ever do the deed. And I really didn't feel like the Ryodan character was very developed (except his abs!). I'm sorry to say goodbye because up to now I have really liked this series.
Been waiting for this book to happen. Loved Dani's and Ryodan's story. Just found out there is another book planned. Can't imagine where it's going. Would like to read more about Christian or Kat and Sean.
I mean, it was what I expected. I skimmed some. The worst part was a third-person secondary narrator who mid-narration became a first-person narrator.
This was not the book I was expecting...it was better than anything I imagined. This is Dani's story and her journey and it is painful and beautiful, filled with sorrow and the love Dani deserves. Read it, then read it again. I cannot wait for the next installment.
I am a huge fan of KMM books. I'm leaving this review as vague as possible to avoid spoilers. I will say I do believe Ryodan and Dani may have just eclipsed Mac and Barrons as favorite KMM pairing ever.
High Voltage was a different book to what I was expecting. In comparison to the first nine books, which were chock full of mystery, intrigue and blow-you-over plot reveals; High Voltage was much more of a character study, with some HUGE moments serving the character development, but it played out a bit more understated than the previous books.
Personally, I think it pairs well with Feversong, because whilst FS was the culmination of various plot threads that had been established in the earlier books, it was also very much about Mac accepting the many facets of her own character.
HV expands on this idea by moving the heftier story elements to the background and delving into the forces that drive Dani. She is logical and guarded, she has been conditioned to compartmentalise her own thoughts and feelings, she has suffered abuses and loss beyond imagination, she has an exacting eye and a lust for life. She’s always been a character that I’ve viewed in contradictions. One moment she is zipping around Dublin without a care in the world, her emotions pouring out of her and the next moment she is shut off from everyone around her. After HV, I think I finally understand her and why it had to be this tenth book in the series where things clicked into place for me.
Some may think that there is a little bit of deus ex machina at play, towards the end of the book, but Dani has been through her fair share of suffering and sacrifice in order for the ending to be the exact type of ending that the book should have had.
This was a story about growing up, family, love and belonging. It was a story about grasping on to the things that you want in life, but also seeking and owning the things that you have to work hard for - the things you have to earn the right to deserve, where the pay-off is so much sweeter. And finally, it was a story about finding your match, mate, the other part of your soul and having to work on understanding and loving yourself to perfect clarity so that those two pieces could finally fit together without the fissures that were there before.
This was not the book I was expecting, but I’m so damn happy that it was the book I got.
Personally, I think it pairs well with Feversong, because whilst FS was the culmination of various plot threads that had been established in the earlier books, it was also very much about Mac accepting the many facets of her own character.
HV expands on this idea by moving the heftier story elements to the background and delving into the forces that drive Dani. She is logical and guarded, she has been conditioned to compartmentalise her own thoughts and feelings, she has suffered abuses and loss beyond imagination, she has an exacting eye and a lust for life. She’s always been a character that I’ve viewed in contradictions. One moment she is zipping around Dublin without a care in the world, her emotions pouring out of her and the next moment she is shut off from everyone around her. After HV, I think I finally understand her and why it had to be this tenth book in the series where things clicked into place for me.
Some may think that there is a little bit of deus ex machina at play, towards the end of the book, but Dani has been through her fair share of suffering and sacrifice in order for the ending to be the exact type of ending that the book should have had.
This was a story about growing up, family, love and belonging. It was a story about grasping on to the things that you want in life, but also seeking and owning the things that you have to work hard for - the things you have to earn the right to deserve, where the pay-off is so much sweeter. And finally, it was a story about finding your match, mate, the other part of your soul and having to work on understanding and loving yourself to perfect clarity so that those two pieces could finally fit together without the fissures that were there before.
This was not the book I was expecting, but I’m so damn happy that it was the book I got.
This story will make you feel ALL. THE. THINGS!!!
I devoured this book on the release day. Something I have NEVER done before. I’d even venture to say this is my FAVORITE book in the series.
It’s so unlike any of the other Fever books in the best possible way. This is a story about life and death, healing, rising up from the shit storms that knock you down, then LIVING and LOVING through all of it. It’s also about how utterly infinite the universe is, and how preciously beautiful the cosmic threads are that tug us toward our destinies. Plus even more that I can’t begin put in to words.
I laughed. I cried. But most importantly, I learned. This is a beautifully written story with a full technicolor kaleidoscope of emotion. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.
I devoured this book on the release day. Something I have NEVER done before. I’d even venture to say this is my FAVORITE book in the series.
It’s so unlike any of the other Fever books in the best possible way. This is a story about life and death, healing, rising up from the shit storms that knock you down, then LIVING and LOVING through all of it. It’s also about how utterly infinite the universe is, and how preciously beautiful the cosmic threads are that tug us toward our destinies. Plus even more that I can’t begin put in to words.
I laughed. I cried. But most importantly, I learned. This is a beautifully written story with a full technicolor kaleidoscope of emotion. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.