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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Kindles are deceitful little devices. Make me think I have 15% to go and then, bam, typical cliffhanger ending. Why, KMM? WHY?
I know that I might be repeating myself, but I can’t help it. I simply adored the first five books in the Fever series. Shadowfever was one of the best finales I’ve read, until it suddenly wasn’t a finale and Karen Marie Moning announced that there would be even more books in this world. I was ecstatic, because that meant more Barrons!
Iced was awful, though. I try to always stay objectionable, but honestly it was just awful. I almost quit, until people convinced me to keep reading and I found out that Mac would be the main character again, and hopefully that meant that we wouldn’t have to read Dani’s warped childhood anymore.
To say that Burned was a step up is putting it mildly. I actually enjoyed the series again. It wasn’t the magic that I thought the first five books were, but it was reminiscent and it made me hopeful. It meant that when Feverborn was released I was actually excited for it. I couldn’t wait to read.
I was overjoyed when Feverborn was even better than Burned! It was funny, and fast paced. It even made me cry! Jada has really grown on me, and I know that there are even better things to come with her. There was a shocking twist with Mac that I never saw coming, and I have no idea where it’s going to go or how it happened. And that cliffhanger! I’ll tell you what Karen Marie Moning always got right, torturing us oh so sweetly, are spectacular cliffhangers! I’m even more excited for the next book!
I don’t want to say too much, because I don’t want to give anything away. I’ll just leave it with this: Bring it on KMM! I’m ready for you!
Read this review, and others like it, at Badass Book Reviews!
Iced was awful, though. I try to always stay objectionable, but honestly it was just awful. I almost quit, until people convinced me to keep reading and I found out that Mac would be the main character again, and hopefully that meant that we wouldn’t have to read Dani’s warped childhood anymore.
To say that Burned was a step up is putting it mildly. I actually enjoyed the series again. It wasn’t the magic that I thought the first five books were, but it was reminiscent and it made me hopeful. It meant that when Feverborn was released I was actually excited for it. I couldn’t wait to read.
I was overjoyed when Feverborn was even better than Burned! It was funny, and fast paced. It even made me cry! Jada has really grown on me, and I know that there are even better things to come with her. There was a shocking twist with Mac that I never saw coming, and I have no idea where it’s going to go or how it happened. And that cliffhanger! I’ll tell you what Karen Marie Moning always got right, torturing us oh so sweetly, are spectacular cliffhangers! I’m even more excited for the next book!
I don’t want to say too much, because I don’t want to give anything away. I’ll just leave it with this: Bring it on KMM! I’m ready for you!
Read this review, and others like it, at Badass Book Reviews!
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
So-so is how I feel about this latest Fever series book. I much more prefer Burned and Iced. This one lacked plot that pulled me in, and character development. Yes we see more Mac and Barrons and usually I am very thrilled. Not this time, their interactions lacked. They had mind-blowing sex, and beyond that not much else. At this point in time, I need more interaction between those two beyond sex. And they have it, they got the chemistry and what is needed to totally bring me in....give me more dialog and sharing of thoughts and such besides sex.
Never thought I would say this four books back, but I really like Dani/Jada and the relationship between her and Ryodan. They were the best part of this book, because their interactions are giving the reader more than actual sex. And while we are on the topic of sex....this book seemed to have far more of it within these pages than the others. Maybe not, but it felt that way. Maybe that actually speaks to the lack of plot (there was a plot but it didn't really take form until half way into the book) and character development.
The ending....yeah, the ending got me. I will read the next book.
Never thought I would say this four books back, but I really like Dani/Jada and the relationship between her and Ryodan. They were the best part of this book, because their interactions are giving the reader more than actual sex. And while we are on the topic of sex....this book seemed to have far more of it within these pages than the others. Maybe not, but it felt that way. Maybe that actually speaks to the lack of plot (there was a plot but it didn't really take form until half way into the book) and character development.
The ending....yeah, the ending got me. I will read the next book.
Eighth in the Fever urban fantasy series set in a Dublin under siege and revolving around Mac, Barrons, and Jada. It's been thirteen months since Mac first arrived in Dublin and eight days since Burned.
In 2016, Feverborn was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy.
My Take
It's primarily first-person protagonist point-of-view from Mac's perspective with a dash of third-person (using I) from Christian's and Dani/Jada's perspective, AND we do learn of things that Mac shouldn't be able to see or be told about, including thoughts from the imprisoned Seelie queen, which definitely places this in a combination POV. A bit of a POV mess, really, but it's easy enough to follow. Well, except when you haven't read the series in awhile AND one has, ahem, skipped Burned. Oops. I'm sure regretting that move, as I feel adrift and confused.
Dani comes across as the cold and icy Jada who is constantly re-affirming who she is, how grown up she is, how much she's changed from the younger Dani. And she does (as does Dancer) make an excellent point about changing when one is gone for over five years. Unfortunately, she comes across as an insecure kid who wants to be the Ice Queen. Then the truth about Shazam comes out…geez…you can't help but want to cry.
As for Mac, she is so busy re-telling the past, going on about her sister's death, explaining her relationship with Barrons, and whining, er, babbling on about the tricks the Sinsar Dubh strews in her path. And whining (that hated trope) about how scary it is to look at the Sinsar Dubh inside her. Please, like she really has a choice. Instead, she runs on with that trope of avoidance. Hmm, actually I do that same trope with computer problems…guess I better stop whining too.
Feverborn strikes me as a bridge, introducing us to the new Dani and Mac catching us up on what's been happening.
The Story
Earth is in danger from the blackholes, and the Nine believe that only Mac can save us by accessing the dread Sinsar Dubh and finding the long-lost Song of Making — a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of life itself.
But their enemies are many with passions that burn hot and hunger for vengeance that runs deep.
The challenges, too, are many: the Keltar at war with nine immortals who've secretly ruled Dublin for eons, Mac and Jada hunted by the masses, the Seelie queen nowhere to be found, and the most powerful Unseelie prince in all creation determined to rule both Fae and Man.
Now the task of solving the ancient riddle of the Song of Making falls to a band of deadly warriors divided among — and within — themselves.
The Characters
MacKayla "Mac" O'Connor Lane is a sidhe-seer and null with a copy of the dread Sinsar Dubh imprinted within her. I get the impression it's 50,000 years of the Unseelie king's memories. Alina was Mac's biological sister, murdered in Darkfever, 1. Their biological mother was Isla O'Connor; her adoptive parents are the loving Jack and Rainey Lane who live in Ashford, Georgia, in America.
Jericho Barrons is one of the Nine — there are Ten now — who gave his bookstore, Barron's Books & Baubles, to Mac. These "men" are lethal and immortal and can turn into fearsome beasts. Ryodan is Jericho's brother and owns Chester's, a nightclub. Others of the Nine include Kasteo "Kas", X, Fade, Daku, and caveman-ish Lor who works for Ryodan at Chester's. He's having sex with Jo Brennan who works as a waitress in the kiddie subclub in Chester's; she's descended from one of the six Irish bloodlines who can see the Fae. The tribunal serves as the Nine's court of law.
Jada, a.k.a., Danielle "The Mega" O'Malley, a.k.a., Dani, is an extremely gifted and genetically mutated sidhe-seer who escaped Silverside and returned to Dublin a couple weeks ago. After being lost for five-and-a-half years. Shazam is the cranky, depressed feline-bear friend she came across on the planet Olean when she was in Silverside. Shazam calls Dani Yi-yi.
Dancer is fully human, brilliant, and in love with Dani, accepting everything about her (Shadowfever). His friends at Trinity College include Caoimhe "Keeva" Gallagher working on a doctorate in music theory; Duncan; and, Squig and Doolin who are brilliant at maths.
Arlington Abbey is…
…the headquarters for the sidhe-seers. Now Dani/Jada is doing what Rowena (the former Grand Mistress until Shadowfever, 5) should have been doing. Brigitte is one of the sidhe-seers.
The Keltar are…
…a Highland clan of Druids who fight for the common good. Daegus MacKeltar, the Highlander, is/was a Druid and their leader; he should be dead after events in Burned. Chloe Zanders was his wife (The Dark Highlander, Highlander 5). Christian MacKeltar had been human and was saved from death through Daegus' sacrifice; now he's a winged Unseelie Fae, a walking lie detector. Colleen, Christian's sister, is the only one of his family who will look at him. Drustan is Daegus' twin brother and is married to Gwen Cassidy (The Kiss of the Highlander, Highlander 4).
Sean O'Bannion is nephew to the dead mobster, Rocky O'Bannion. He's also Katarina's lover. Katarina "Kat" McLaughlin is part of a notorious crime family too with a gift of extreme empathy, so she was sent to the Abbey.
The Guardians are…
…the only effective police force left in Dublin and led by Inspector Jayne. Mickey is a murdered Guardian. Brody O'Roark led the invasion.
The Unseelie are…
…the Dark fae. There are four Unseelie princes: War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death. Christian is now Death. Cruce, a.k.a., the Seelie Prince, V'lane, is an Unseelie prince imprisoned beneath the Abbey by the Unseelie king. Toc. Darroc was Alina's lover, a Fae stripped of his immortality by Queen Aoibheal, who had been the Unseelie king's concubine.
K'Vruck is an ancient icy black Royal Hunter who allows Mac and Barrons to ride him. The Sweeper is the being he works for, a moving collection of trash. The Crimson Hag is an early Unseelie king creation, as is the Hoar Frost King who opened "blackholes" all over the world that will swallow the world. Rhino-boys are lower-caste Unseelie thugs who look like rhinoceroses with bumpy, protruding foreheads, barrel-like bodies, and stumpy arms and legs. They're used as bully boys, watchdogs, or security for high-ranking Fae.
Papa Roach is the king cockroach composed of a bunch of cockroaches gathering to form one body, a former god, spying for Cruce and Ryodan.
Adam Black, a Fae gone mad who became human (The Immortal Highlander, Highlander 6). The Sinsar Dubh is an ancient book of black magic. Mallucé is a superhumanly strong vampire who had beaten Mac to the edge of death (Darkfever and Bloodfever, 2). The Draghar had been the living consciousness of thirteen ancient sorcerers. Priya is a Fae trick induced to create a mindless insatiable need for sex. Silver is the alternate plane entered by going through a mirror, where one becomes completely lost, struggling to survive.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a range of reds with Mac in a floor-length, sexy red dress, its skirts and Mac's long hair billowing in the wind, as she holds her wrist in one hand against a night backdrop of bare trees in the mist, a bright light behind her. The author's name is at the top in red while the title is below Mac's waist in a gradation of white to red. Below that is the series information in white, bracketed by white fleur-de-lis.
I'm thinking the title is a reference to how Mac became what she is now, a Feverborn exhaustion from the time she was Priya.
In 2016, Feverborn was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy.
My Take
It's primarily first-person protagonist point-of-view from Mac's perspective with a dash of third-person (using I) from Christian's and Dani/Jada's perspective, AND we do learn of things that Mac shouldn't be able to see or be told about, including thoughts from the imprisoned Seelie queen, which definitely places this in a combination POV. A bit of a POV mess, really, but it's easy enough to follow. Well, except when you haven't read the series in awhile AND one has, ahem, skipped Burned. Oops. I'm sure regretting that move, as I feel adrift and confused.
Dani comes across as the cold and icy Jada who is constantly re-affirming who she is, how grown up she is, how much she's changed from the younger Dani. And she does (as does Dancer) make an excellent point about changing when one is gone for over five years. Unfortunately, she comes across as an insecure kid who wants to be the Ice Queen. Then the truth about Shazam comes out…geez…you can't help but want to cry.
As for Mac, she is so busy re-telling the past, going on about her sister's death, explaining her relationship with Barrons, and whining, er, babbling on about the tricks the Sinsar Dubh strews in her path. And whining (that hated trope) about how scary it is to look at the Sinsar Dubh inside her. Please, like she really has a choice. Instead, she runs on with that trope of avoidance. Hmm, actually I do that same trope with computer problems…guess I better stop whining too.
Feverborn strikes me as a bridge, introducing us to the new Dani and Mac catching us up on what's been happening.
The Story
Earth is in danger from the blackholes, and the Nine believe that only Mac can save us by accessing the dread Sinsar Dubh and finding the long-lost Song of Making — a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of life itself.
But their enemies are many with passions that burn hot and hunger for vengeance that runs deep.
The challenges, too, are many: the Keltar at war with nine immortals who've secretly ruled Dublin for eons, Mac and Jada hunted by the masses, the Seelie queen nowhere to be found, and the most powerful Unseelie prince in all creation determined to rule both Fae and Man.
Now the task of solving the ancient riddle of the Song of Making falls to a band of deadly warriors divided among — and within — themselves.
The Characters
MacKayla "Mac" O'Connor Lane is a sidhe-seer and null with a copy of the dread Sinsar Dubh imprinted within her. I get the impression it's 50,000 years of the Unseelie king's memories. Alina was Mac's biological sister, murdered in Darkfever, 1. Their biological mother was Isla O'Connor; her adoptive parents are the loving Jack and Rainey Lane who live in Ashford, Georgia, in America.
Jericho Barrons is one of the Nine — there are Ten now — who gave his bookstore, Barron's Books & Baubles, to Mac. These "men" are lethal and immortal and can turn into fearsome beasts. Ryodan is Jericho's brother and owns Chester's, a nightclub. Others of the Nine include Kasteo "Kas", X, Fade, Daku, and caveman-ish Lor who works for Ryodan at Chester's. He's having sex with Jo Brennan who works as a waitress in the kiddie subclub in Chester's; she's descended from one of the six Irish bloodlines who can see the Fae. The tribunal serves as the Nine's court of law.
Jada, a.k.a., Danielle "The Mega" O'Malley, a.k.a., Dani, is an extremely gifted and genetically mutated sidhe-seer who escaped Silverside and returned to Dublin a couple weeks ago. After being lost for five-and-a-half years. Shazam is the cranky, depressed feline-bear friend she came across on the planet Olean when she was in Silverside. Shazam calls Dani Yi-yi.
Dancer is fully human, brilliant, and in love with Dani, accepting everything about her (Shadowfever). His friends at Trinity College include Caoimhe "Keeva" Gallagher working on a doctorate in music theory; Duncan; and, Squig and Doolin who are brilliant at maths.
Arlington Abbey is…
…the headquarters for the sidhe-seers. Now Dani/Jada is doing what Rowena (the former Grand Mistress until Shadowfever, 5) should have been doing. Brigitte is one of the sidhe-seers.
The Keltar are…
…a Highland clan of Druids who fight for the common good. Daegus MacKeltar, the Highlander, is/was a Druid and their leader; he should be dead after events in Burned. Chloe Zanders was his wife (The Dark Highlander, Highlander 5). Christian MacKeltar had been human and was saved from death through Daegus' sacrifice; now he's a winged Unseelie Fae, a walking lie detector. Colleen, Christian's sister, is the only one of his family who will look at him. Drustan is Daegus' twin brother and is married to Gwen Cassidy (The Kiss of the Highlander, Highlander 4).
Sean O'Bannion is nephew to the dead mobster, Rocky O'Bannion. He's also Katarina's lover. Katarina "Kat" McLaughlin is part of a notorious crime family too with a gift of extreme empathy, so she was sent to the Abbey.
The Guardians are…
…the only effective police force left in Dublin and led by Inspector Jayne. Mickey is a murdered Guardian. Brody O'Roark led the invasion.
The Unseelie are…
…the Dark fae. There are four Unseelie princes: War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death. Christian is now Death. Cruce, a.k.a., the Seelie Prince, V'lane, is an Unseelie prince imprisoned beneath the Abbey by the Unseelie king. Toc. Darroc was Alina's lover, a Fae stripped of his immortality by Queen Aoibheal, who had been the Unseelie king's concubine.
K'Vruck is an ancient icy black Royal Hunter who allows Mac and Barrons to ride him. The Sweeper is the being he works for, a moving collection of trash. The Crimson Hag is an early Unseelie king creation, as is the Hoar Frost King who opened "blackholes" all over the world that will swallow the world. Rhino-boys are lower-caste Unseelie thugs who look like rhinoceroses with bumpy, protruding foreheads, barrel-like bodies, and stumpy arms and legs. They're used as bully boys, watchdogs, or security for high-ranking Fae.
Papa Roach is the king cockroach composed of a bunch of cockroaches gathering to form one body, a former god, spying for Cruce and Ryodan.
Adam Black, a Fae gone mad who became human (The Immortal Highlander, Highlander 6). The Sinsar Dubh is an ancient book of black magic. Mallucé is a superhumanly strong vampire who had beaten Mac to the edge of death (Darkfever and Bloodfever, 2). The Draghar had been the living consciousness of thirteen ancient sorcerers. Priya is a Fae trick induced to create a mindless insatiable need for sex. Silver is the alternate plane entered by going through a mirror, where one becomes completely lost, struggling to survive.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a range of reds with Mac in a floor-length, sexy red dress, its skirts and Mac's long hair billowing in the wind, as she holds her wrist in one hand against a night backdrop of bare trees in the mist, a bright light behind her. The author's name is at the top in red while the title is below Mac's waist in a gradation of white to red. Below that is the series information in white, bracketed by white fleur-de-lis.
I'm thinking the title is a reference to how Mac became what she is now, a Feverborn exhaustion from the time she was Priya.
Holy mechanical nightmares what an ending ! I was left gasping for breath. Where did it go ? What does it mean ? What will happen to Barrons ? When is the next book being released ?????
The horrors that Dani/Jada had to survive for years are just peeking out around the edges. Scars inside and out cover her, but those weren't the worst damage. She wasn't always alone
Mac is dealing with this massive power inside her that could go off at anytime.
There may never be another pink cake.
The world may end, taking another with it
Ryo was sweet, nasty, sneaky, artistic and hands on.
The Fever world is spinning out of control
The horrors that Dani/Jada had to survive for years are just peeking out around the edges. Scars inside and out cover her, but those weren't the worst damage. She wasn't always alone
Mac is dealing with this massive power inside her that could go off at anytime.
There may never be another pink cake.
The world may end, taking another with it
Ryo was sweet, nasty, sneaky, artistic and hands on.
The Fever world is spinning out of control
I was disappointed with this one. It was super boring and didn’t bring anything new.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced