Title: Darkfever
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Publisher: Dell
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
Paperback: 384 pages
ISBN: 978-0440240983
Genre: Fiction, Paranormal, Romance
From the Publisher:
MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.
When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….
As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….
My Review:
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning is the first book in The MacKayla Lane series. Mac’s life is forever changed on July 9 when she learns her older sister Alina was murdered in Dublin. Determined to find out who could have done such a thing, 22-year-old Mac quits her job, drops out of college, and cashes in her savings and heads to Ireland where she hopes to learn what her sister meant in her last message about being deceived and about the Sinsar Dubh. Darkfever chronicles the year Mac spends in Ireland and the knowledge she learns through Fiona and Jericho Barrons. Moning writes a fast-paced novel which is easy to read and oddly compelling, especially considering I do not believe in any sort of magic, otherworlds and the like. Typically I have no interest in this subject matter and yet toward the end of the book I found myself wanting to read the second book, Bloodfever in hopes of having some of my questions answered about Fiona and Barrons. Mac makes an unfortunate heroine, as she is an extremely immature 22 year old. As the book opens, the reader is not aware of her age and I had guessed she was a spoiled and pampered 14 year old. It is my hope that as the books continue I will hear less and less about the various shades of pink she paints her fingernails and toenails and more about her. Aside from her petulance for all things pink and the oddities of the Unseelie, Moning does write an intriguing story of good verses evil and the possible extinction of humankind, so much so that I am indeed looking forward to reading Bloodfever in hopes of gaining insight and answers. I was delightfully surprised that I was pulled into the story, and thrilled there is a mini-glossary of terms for those of us who do not typically read this genre. I would recommend Darkfever to anyone intrigued by the world of the Fae.
Karen Marie Moning graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in Society & Law. Her novels have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists and have won numerous awards, including the prestigious RITA Award.
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This is one of my all time favorite series. Mac certainly grows as the series goes on and you’ll watch her change drastically. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series as I think it just gets better and better. And they all have MAJOR cliffhangers so your lucky that the last one comes out in January and you won’t have the crazy wait the rest of us fans did.
Good to know. I shall be reviewing the entire series.