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Bloodfever
by Karen Marie Moning
Mackayla Lane is still in Dublin living in the Barrons bookstore. She is still being threatened by Unseelie Fae and the Lord Master, still caught up in ambiguous relationships with Jerricho Barrons and V'lane, the Seelie Prince.
She still hasn't revenged her sister.
Not entirely a naive Southern Belle anymore, Mac spends most of Bloodfever in a struggle to determine who to trust, and trying to find Objects of Power and answer to questions still lingering from the first book.
She becomes more kick-petunia (her word for "ass") while meeting new powerful movers in Dublin; other sidhe-seers and a mysterious phantom haunting her every step.
While watching Mac become more sure of herself and hold her own against the major players in the story, and the new characters intriguing, for me this book was basically treading water. We still don't know who Barrons is, she still hasn't avenged her sister, they're still after the mysterious evil fae book and don't know who has it, and while Mac is getting better at using her sidhe-seer powers, it doesn't seem to help her in the major battles (against the shades and Malluce).
She still gets bossed around by Barrons, has to fight Malluce, has to deal with the mobster O'Bannion, and when she does meet another sidhe-seer, she's so suspicious and distrustful that we don't get very much background of that organization, either.
So while enjoyable, I didn't feel that the "eating Unseelie" flesh (wore off quickly) thing or the V'lane scenes really developed anything.
As a second book in the series, I felt it rehashed quite a lot of what happened in the first book while I was looking for Mac to develop at a faster pace, for a new big bad to be vanquished (same old Malluce) and for some of our questions to be answered.
The visceral jarring of the brutal sex and violence scenes are toned down in this book, with the massive torture scene given a kind of gloss over and summarizing, which lessened the impact of this major event in Mac's life.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: leftover Tiramisu, AGAIN, for dessert when you've had it the night before.
She still hasn't revenged her sister.
Not entirely a naive Southern Belle anymore, Mac spends most of Bloodfever in a struggle to determine who to trust, and trying to find Objects of Power and answer to questions still lingering from the first book.
She becomes more kick-petunia (her word for "ass") while meeting new powerful movers in Dublin; other sidhe-seers and a mysterious phantom haunting her every step.
While watching Mac become more sure of herself and hold her own against the major players in the story, and the new characters intriguing, for me this book was basically treading water. We still don't know who Barrons is, she still hasn't avenged her sister, they're still after the mysterious evil fae book and don't know who has it, and while Mac is getting better at using her sidhe-seer powers, it doesn't seem to help her in the major battles (against the shades and Malluce).
She still gets bossed around by Barrons, has to fight Malluce, has to deal with the mobster O'Bannion, and when she does meet another sidhe-seer, she's so suspicious and distrustful that we don't get very much background of that organization, either.
So while enjoyable, I didn't feel that the "eating Unseelie" flesh (wore off quickly) thing or the V'lane scenes really developed anything.
As a second book in the series, I felt it rehashed quite a lot of what happened in the first book while I was looking for Mac to develop at a faster pace, for a new big bad to be vanquished (same old Malluce) and for some of our questions to be answered.
The visceral jarring of the brutal sex and violence scenes are toned down in this book, with the massive torture scene given a kind of gloss over and summarizing, which lessened the impact of this major event in Mac's life.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: leftover Tiramisu, AGAIN, for dessert when you've had it the night before.