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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
I gave this five stars because I can't help but love reading more about Mac and the world created in the Fever series. I do kind of agree that we should have moved on by now to Dani...but where Mac started out as a bit one-dimensional and we watched her turn into a complicated person over the course of the series, Dani/Jada is nothing but more and more complex dimensions, and I think it makes it hard to relate to her, so we wind up back with Mac. Speaking of Mac, I know it's wrong, but I am so happy to see the return of a certain important character in this book, and no, I don't care how she showed up. Both this book and the last one had sort of a voyeuristic appeal. So many previous books feature Mac not finding out ANYTHING, ever. So, it's nice to see that information is readily available to her now.
I really enjoyed seeing scenes from other people's POV this time around. Lor's scenes were delightful. I also liked seeing Christian, now that he's returning to reality and accepting who he is. Desperately want to find out how Kat is doing with Kasteo, and what is going on with Dageus.. and my heart is breaking for Chloe right now.
So. Yes. I enjoy Mac still, but I know that I should want to see more Dani. Hopefully it will all come together.
Oh, and the cliffhanger ending didn't kill me this time because... well, you kind of see it coming. It always does disappoint me when authors end on cliffhangers like that, though. Just finish the book. I promise, I will still want to read the next one.
I really enjoyed seeing scenes from other people's POV this time around. Lor's scenes were delightful. I also liked seeing Christian, now that he's returning to reality and accepting who he is. Desperately want to find out how Kat is doing with Kasteo, and what is going on with Dageus.. and my heart is breaking for Chloe right now.
So. Yes. I enjoy Mac still, but I know that I should want to see more Dani. Hopefully it will all come together.
Oh, and the cliffhanger ending didn't kill me this time because... well, you kind of see it coming. It always does disappoint me when authors end on cliffhangers like that, though. Just finish the book. I promise, I will still want to read the next one.
The battle for survival rages on in the eighth book of the Fever series. Feverborn is probably my favorite book in the series so far. Moning really redeemed herself after Burned. Mac is fine form and we get some great moments of her and Barrons. Jada’s personality vastly improves and we get some good info about her time in the Silvers. There were some great emotional moments, some stellar action, and the ending was AMAZING! 4/5 stars.
I wasn't sure what to rate this, maybe 5 stars is a bit too much, but whatever, I was so excited to return to this series with a new book and it didn't disappoint me.
Before I started, I thought I would be able to predict what a lot of reviews would be. Whining about how they were fed up with having Mac books and how they wanted a Dani/Jada book, and that I'd be here thinking "thank fuck it's not another Dani book" because Iced was my least favourite of the series and I happen to like the Mac books. Feverborn was a lot more balanced POV-wise. I think it was pretty equal between Mac chapters and Dani/Jada chapters with a little bit of Christian and Lor shoved in. I wasn't quite sure about Jada after Burned but after reading Feverborn, I think I love her and I'm excited to see what happens with her next.
I was never a fan of the Alina storyline even though it was the start of everything. I didn't care that Alina was dead because she just seemed really annoying to me. Maybe it's partly because she was there from the start, back before Mac had grown on me, and I just couldn't get it into my head how close they were as sisters. It was a little bit weird to me. Didn't feel quite right.
Shazaam. I wasn't quite sure what to make of Shazaam. It was like a cartoon brought to life. Weird. But then
I still can't completely connect Dani and Jada as two parts of the same person especially when it comes to Dancer and Ryodan. Hopefully that will resolve itself at some point. I'm hoping the two parts melt together to make a new version or whatever.
I did notice a lot of references in Feverborn. Chapter One immediately made me think of that Jack, Rose, floating door scene in Titanic and scattered throughout the text were Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Castaway references which made me smile at first but got a little bit old.
I've also realised through reading this and through my partial reread of the series in preparation, that the writing can have a touch of the over-dramatics about it. Luckily, at this point, I'm pretty much in love with the world and attached to the characters so it doesn't bother me much although I would completely understand if it bothered other people.
A really enjoyable read. I can't wait for the next book and I'm sad that I'll have to wait a while for it (hopefully only a year rather than years - I don't want another GOT situation over here!)
Before I started, I thought I would be able to predict what a lot of reviews would be. Whining about how they were fed up with having Mac books and how they wanted a Dani/Jada book, and that I'd be here thinking "thank fuck it's not another Dani book" because Iced was my least favourite of the series and I happen to like the Mac books. Feverborn was a lot more balanced POV-wise. I think it was pretty equal between Mac chapters and Dani/Jada chapters with a little bit of Christian and Lor shoved in. I wasn't quite sure about Jada after Burned but after reading Feverborn, I think I love her and I'm excited to see what happens with her next.
I was never a fan of the Alina storyline even though it was the start of everything. I didn't care that Alina was dead because she just seemed really annoying to me. Maybe it's partly because she was there from the start, back before Mac had grown on me, and I just couldn't get it into my head how close they were as sisters. It was a little bit weird to me. Didn't feel quite right.
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Now I don't know what to feel - I hope it's not quite as it seems it's going to be. I'd feel cheated if she had actually been brought back to life and there's no consequences, or if she didn't die after all (I don't believe that though if she came back in the clothes she was buried in).Shazaam. I wasn't quite sure what to make of Shazaam. It was like a cartoon brought to life. Weird. But then
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when it was revealed that he was a cuddly toy my heart just broke for Dani/Jada. Just thinking that she'd spent those five years in the silvers with a cuddly toy she'd brought to life in her head... I may have shed a couple of tears. It was like a punch to the gut. But then it was revealed that he's real and still in the silvers and I'm back to thinking wtf. I don't think I like that he is real and the cuddly toy was just a surrogate in the real world.I still can't completely connect Dani and Jada as two parts of the same person especially when it comes to Dancer and Ryodan. Hopefully that will resolve itself at some point. I'm hoping the two parts melt together to make a new version or whatever.
I did notice a lot of references in Feverborn. Chapter One immediately made me think of that Jack, Rose, floating door scene in Titanic and scattered throughout the text were Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Castaway references which made me smile at first but got a little bit old.
I've also realised through reading this and through my partial reread of the series in preparation, that the writing can have a touch of the over-dramatics about it. Luckily, at this point, I'm pretty much in love with the world and attached to the characters so it doesn't bother me much although I would completely understand if it bothered other people.
A really enjoyable read. I can't wait for the next book and I'm sad that I'll have to wait a while for it (hopefully only a year rather than years - I don't want another GOT situation over here!)
I came late to the Fever Series, but I read the first books over one vacation and when I found out there were more coming I couldn't have been more anxious and excited. I could imagine what early fans of the series had to go through waiting for what would happen next. I've loved the series and all the books for different reasons, but the book before this one was difficult to love like all the rest. As a fan I was upset over what went down with Dani's character. I was angry at the writer because I felt as a reader I was being cheated out of this epic life a bit like the other characters. Then I read this book and the author seemed to have experienced all those same things and feelings I felt about Dani's situation and maybe that was due to her own personal experiences with readers or things she experienced in her own life at the time of the writing. Whatever it was I felt like this book more than anything had the heart of the series within it's pages. I couldn't have been more happy with the story. It was classic Fever and it was more.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm a little disappointed in this book. I felt that the story didn't really move forward that much. I didn't like that it jumped POV, that is one thing that makes me crazy. Also I don't like cliff hangers and this one was awful. I will read the next one but I think the first 5 are my favorite.
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I’m going to start off by saying how I find it so strange how torn the Fever series is ever since Karen Marie Moning continued after the fifth book, Shadowfever. I will say, the first five books do stand together as a united front while it had a lot of the issues tied up to reach a reasonable conclusion while a few story aspects were left up in the air, and all the books past it have seemed to veer off, or teeter totter, to explore more uncharted territory while not feeling like KMM is fully latching onto one main conflict anymore. Some people loved Iced, some didn’t, and the same can be said for Burned and now the latest book I’ve read in the series: Feverborn. I try to see all sides in the points made from other reviewers as to why they liked or disliked the books, all while making sure I kept my own opinions on them, and I can conclude that I’m in the subgroup that wasn’t a huge fan of Iced, I loved Burned, and I liked Feverborn just a smidge more than Iced, but I still didn’t love it.
For me, I’ve been pretty open to the spread out feeling that KMM has given us with this phase 2 of the series as I like to call it. Both Iced and Burned allowed her to explore new ideas as to where the series could possibly go next. There are several big conflicts with Cruce and the Black-holes that both threaten the future of our world, and there’s a much larger cast of characters to develop now that the spotlight is shining away from Mac and Barrons a little bit more. Characters like Dani, Ryodan, Christian, Jo, Jada, Kat, and Lor have been given excellent development and only add to series in a positive way—although I like how people are torn about Ryodan showing more emotion in these later books.
I guess for Feverborn, I’m officially at the point of impatience and I want to look at KMM and be like “Girl… just pick a direction already… and stop with the so many recaps we get in literally every book!” This book just felt off because not that much really happened. It’s another thick volume to add to the stack, but that’s only because it’s once again filled with the many inner monologues/thought processes and the many recaps we’ve gotten so often before. Sure, I’m binge-reading these back to back and not waiting a year like if I were to have been reading these books as they release, but c’mon Karen… we get it already! It’s book 8 in the series already, and honestly I thought we’d get further along by now with all that’s going down.
For me, this was just a slower read with a lack of REALLY important plot points happening not until the last fifty or so pages when all of a sudden everything is happening at once, and at least then it seriously revived this book. The ending was the saving grace with all that happens with Jada, Ryodan, and Mac of course! I won’t spoil it, but wow does Karen know how to leave a heart-wrenching cliffhanger!
I’m not gonna lie, this book is making me not want to immediately get into the next one, Feversong, quite as quickly even though there’s that killer cliffhanger I mentioned. I don’t know… maybe I’m nervous about me losing faith in Karen and the series because it’s been so back and forth with these last three books in the series. I love the continuation and the fact that we’re getting more material, but I can’t disagree that it’s been majorly inconsistent when compared to the first five books, and there’s even sub-groups of the fandom that only regard those as the actual series.
I love the higher number of romance scenes in this title; FINALLY we get past the sometimes juvenile arguments between Barrons and Mac and just let them be together and put more angst on the other developing couples.
Maybe with how the next book is set that KMM will finally crank up the nitrous oxide and speed us to where the series should be at this point; we will have to wait and see.
Thanks for Reading!
— Nick Goodsell
I’m going to start off by saying how I find it so strange how torn the Fever series is ever since Karen Marie Moning continued after the fifth book, Shadowfever. I will say, the first five books do stand together as a united front while it had a lot of the issues tied up to reach a reasonable conclusion while a few story aspects were left up in the air, and all the books past it have seemed to veer off, or teeter totter, to explore more uncharted territory while not feeling like KMM is fully latching onto one main conflict anymore. Some people loved Iced, some didn’t, and the same can be said for Burned and now the latest book I’ve read in the series: Feverborn. I try to see all sides in the points made from other reviewers as to why they liked or disliked the books, all while making sure I kept my own opinions on them, and I can conclude that I’m in the subgroup that wasn’t a huge fan of Iced, I loved Burned, and I liked Feverborn just a smidge more than Iced, but I still didn’t love it.
For me, I’ve been pretty open to the spread out feeling that KMM has given us with this phase 2 of the series as I like to call it. Both Iced and Burned allowed her to explore new ideas as to where the series could possibly go next. There are several big conflicts with Cruce and the Black-holes that both threaten the future of our world, and there’s a much larger cast of characters to develop now that the spotlight is shining away from Mac and Barrons a little bit more. Characters like Dani, Ryodan, Christian, Jo, Jada, Kat, and Lor have been given excellent development and only add to series in a positive way—although I like how people are torn about Ryodan showing more emotion in these later books.
I guess for Feverborn, I’m officially at the point of impatience and I want to look at KMM and be like “Girl… just pick a direction already… and stop with the so many recaps we get in literally every book!” This book just felt off because not that much really happened. It’s another thick volume to add to the stack, but that’s only because it’s once again filled with the many inner monologues/thought processes and the many recaps we’ve gotten so often before. Sure, I’m binge-reading these back to back and not waiting a year like if I were to have been reading these books as they release, but c’mon Karen… we get it already! It’s book 8 in the series already, and honestly I thought we’d get further along by now with all that’s going down.
For me, this was just a slower read with a lack of REALLY important plot points happening not until the last fifty or so pages when all of a sudden everything is happening at once, and at least then it seriously revived this book. The ending was the saving grace with all that happens with Jada, Ryodan, and Mac of course! I won’t spoil it, but wow does Karen know how to leave a heart-wrenching cliffhanger!
I’m not gonna lie, this book is making me not want to immediately get into the next one, Feversong, quite as quickly even though there’s that killer cliffhanger I mentioned. I don’t know… maybe I’m nervous about me losing faith in Karen and the series because it’s been so back and forth with these last three books in the series. I love the continuation and the fact that we’re getting more material, but I can’t disagree that it’s been majorly inconsistent when compared to the first five books, and there’s even sub-groups of the fandom that only regard those as the actual series.
I love the higher number of romance scenes in this title; FINALLY we get past the sometimes juvenile arguments between Barrons and Mac and just let them be together and put more angst on the other developing couples.
Maybe with how the next book is set that KMM will finally crank up the nitrous oxide and speed us to where the series should be at this point; we will have to wait and see.
Thanks for Reading!
— Nick Goodsell
Uhh.
Karen Marie Moning is the Queen of the cliffhanger ending.
There were parts of this book where I wasn't sure about it. But I think this and Iced and Burned were a transition in the series. And if the ending is anything to gauge by, we're about to be launched into something entirely new, possibly the true child of the Fever series.
It's hard not to love a book that leaves you going, "Dayum."
Karen Marie Moning is the Queen of the cliffhanger ending.
There were parts of this book where I wasn't sure about it. But I think this and Iced and Burned were a transition in the series. And if the ending is anything to gauge by, we're about to be launched into something entirely new, possibly the true child of the Fever series.
It's hard not to love a book that leaves you going, "Dayum."
adventurous
funny
medium-paced