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A review by fulltimefiction
Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning
3.0
3.5 stars
Darkfever: ★★★★★
Bloodfever:★★★★★
Faefever:★★★★★
Dreamfever:★★★★★
Shadowfever:★★★★★
Iced: ★★★★
Burned: ★★★
Feverborn: ★★
Feversong: ★★★
High Voltage: ★★
The fever series was my introduction to the Urban Fantasy genre so it’ll always have a special place in my heart. Everyone who’s been following the series knows the quality dramatically dropped after book 5. While I rated this one higher than the previous book, it’s more because of its sentimental value and the fact that KMM wrote this while suffering from chronic illnesses. I’m glad she was strong enough and gave us closure to this series dear to many.
This book introduced new characters but also wrapped the story and gave us a closure. It was told from several perspectives, Mac’s mainly. Christian, Dany, Kat, Cruce, well most of the major players got a POV somewhere along the line. As well as Ix and Lyryka, two new characters.
I honestly had a difficult time getting into the book so I listened to the audio of the first few chapters and then basically finished reading the rest in a day. I certainly forgot how complex the world is so the glossary provided was very helpful. I won’t retell the story of this book and simply move to the pros and cons like I was doing in my previous reviews of these books.
Pros:
- Lyryka! She was truly the highlight of this book for me. Although I think she was created for Christian in a way, I certainly liked her character. Full of life and optimistic, a huge bookwork, and sees magic in everything (she was confined in a bottle all her life).
- Mac wasn’t annoying, she was getting on my nerves in the latest books but I finally saw a spark of the old Mac in this book. Also, I’m back to shipping Mac and Jericho! But yes too much of them, here wish the book focused on other characters more.
- I just love the characters so much?? It was nostalgic reading about those characters that I grew to care about.
Cons:
- So much talk about sex/sexuality/horniness, especially in Christian’s and Mac’s parts. It annoyed me a lot since this series is so much more than that. To be clear I’m not talking about smut scenes (not many/not graphic), but for example, how Christian wants so much to have sex. I got tired of hearing about it.
- Ryo and Dani’s arc was only okay, I was expecting more of them. They were separated most of the book and Ryodan’s part specifically was pretty much useless in this book. I love Dany I’m sad to see she’s lost a bit of her voice and sounded more like Mac.
- Although we had some too long monologues, they weren’t as abundant as before. But still there needlessly.
- Not much was happening throughout this book and it wasn’t till the end that we saw some action.
- I think the new characters kind of outshone the old ones? Sure I love everyone here but Lyryka, Ix, Azar were more interesting
- I expected more of Mac being the queen? Like this part wasn’t developed as much as I would’ve liked.
- I also didn’t like all of the ending especiallythat Ryo and Dani didn’t get any prologue, Mac’s father living uhm like why? And no one dying... the ending was too neat.
Overall, this wasn’t a bad book but it had its share of its flaws. I was nostalgic reading KOSAL and I’m glad honestly this series was wrapped up at last. I would’ve preferred a Dani spin-off much more since Mac and Barrons were never the same since Shadowfever.
Darkfever: ★★★★★
Bloodfever:★★★★★
Faefever:★★★★★
Dreamfever:★★★★★
Shadowfever:★★★★★
Iced: ★★★★
Burned: ★★★
Feverborn: ★★
Feversong: ★★★
High Voltage: ★★
The fever series was my introduction to the Urban Fantasy genre so it’ll always have a special place in my heart. Everyone who’s been following the series knows the quality dramatically dropped after book 5. While I rated this one higher than the previous book, it’s more because of its sentimental value and the fact that KMM wrote this while suffering from chronic illnesses. I’m glad she was strong enough and gave us closure to this series dear to many.
This book introduced new characters but also wrapped the story and gave us a closure. It was told from several perspectives, Mac’s mainly. Christian, Dany, Kat, Cruce, well most of the major players got a POV somewhere along the line. As well as Ix and Lyryka, two new characters.
I honestly had a difficult time getting into the book so I listened to the audio of the first few chapters and then basically finished reading the rest in a day. I certainly forgot how complex the world is so the glossary provided was very helpful. I won’t retell the story of this book and simply move to the pros and cons like I was doing in my previous reviews of these books.
Pros:
- Lyryka! She was truly the highlight of this book for me. Although I think she was created for Christian in a way, I certainly liked her character. Full of life and optimistic, a huge bookwork, and sees magic in everything (she was confined in a bottle all her life).
- Mac wasn’t annoying, she was getting on my nerves in the latest books but I finally saw a spark of the old Mac in this book. Also, I’m back to shipping Mac and Jericho! But yes too much of them, here wish the book focused on other characters more.
- I just love the characters so much?? It was nostalgic reading about those characters that I grew to care about.
Cons:
- So much talk about sex/sexuality/horniness, especially in Christian’s and Mac’s parts. It annoyed me a lot since this series is so much more than that. To be clear I’m not talking about smut scenes (not many/not graphic), but for example, how Christian wants so much to have sex. I got tired of hearing about it.
- Ryo and Dani’s arc was only okay, I was expecting more of them. They were separated most of the book and Ryodan’s part specifically was pretty much useless in this book. I love Dany I’m sad to see she’s lost a bit of her voice and sounded more like Mac.
- Although we had some too long monologues, they weren’t as abundant as before. But still there needlessly.
- Not much was happening throughout this book and it wasn’t till the end that we saw some action.
- I think the new characters kind of outshone the old ones? Sure I love everyone here but Lyryka, Ix, Azar were more interesting
- I expected more of Mac being the queen? Like this part wasn’t developed as much as I would’ve liked.
- I also didn’t like all of the ending especially
Overall, this wasn’t a bad book but it had its share of its flaws. I was nostalgic reading KOSAL and I’m glad honestly this series was wrapped up at last. I would’ve preferred a Dani spin-off much more since Mac and Barrons were never the same since Shadowfever.