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Aug 23, 2009 Megan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance, all-time-favorites, magic-witches-elves-fae, e-book

Book 1 in the Fever series.

3 陆 stars instead of the whole 4 simply because a few times I thought the story lulled a little too often.

MacKayla (Mac) Lane travels to Dublin, Ireland in search of her sister鈥檚 (Alina鈥檚) killer. She soon discovers that she is a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae. She is also a Null, she can sense the presence of Objects of Power (OOP鈥檚) and the evil Sinsar Dubh book and can temporarily freeze Fae with her hands. Mac comes across, quite accidently, Jericho Barrons, anot Book 1 in the Fever series.

3 陆 stars instead of the whole 4 simply because a few times I thought the story lulled a little too often.

MacKayla (Mac) Lane travels to Dublin, Ireland in search of her sister鈥檚 (Alina鈥檚) killer. She soon discovers that she is a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae. She is also a Null, she can sense the presence of Objects of Power (OOP鈥檚) and the evil Sinsar Dubh book and can temporarily freeze Fae with her hands. Mac comes across, quite accidently, Jericho Barrons, another sidhe-seer who as gorgeous as he is mysterious. He totes Mac from point A to point B three night in a row searching for OOP鈥檚 and the Sinsar Dubh (those would be the lulls I was referring to, three different places that weren鈥檛 that interesting three times in a row got a little slow and frustrating). Mac does end up finding with her trusted nausea and gag reflex that signals the OOP鈥檚 one of the four stones (Barrons already has one, for a total of two) and the Spear of Luisne (which can kill the Fae).

Since Mac gets mixed up with Barrons she isn鈥檛 able to search for her sister as much as she would like. Mac also meets V鈥檒ane an alpha Fae who can make sex an addiction. Mac doesn鈥檛 know who to trust. However, she finally finds one last message from her sister in the alley that she died- carved into the stone ground with one of her old nail files. It鈥檚 an address into the Dark Zone. The questions is- if she goes in, will she be able to come out- alive?

I really enjoyed this book and I think I鈥檓 going to love this series. I really enjoyed Ms. Moning鈥檚 style of writing and all the characters she created in her world. This book just lulled one too many times for me to give it a full 4 stars. The only other thing that I found lacking was that there was absolutely no love scene. Now, I鈥檓 not talking about there was just alluded to one (like young adult books or 鈥渙ld school鈥� regency books where it鈥檚 just implied). No, no love scene at all, which is strange in a fully romance novel (one that is sold in the romance section). I would have understood the no love scene thing if this was a fully urban-fantasy book sold in the sci-fi/fantasy section. But, I do understand that this is a series of 5 books and is most likely building to that. However, it just comes across as strange as I鈥檝e ready many other series (full romance book) with the same heroine and all of those books still had love scenes.
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Jul 13, 2009 CaliGirlRae rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: faeries, urban-fantasy, audiobooks

I couldn't really get into this one which is a bummer because I really enjoyed the premise and the appearance of faeries. Despite the interesting mystery blurb, the story felt like territory that has been retread before and I found myself comparing Mackayla to Sookie Stackhouse a lot in the way she's portrayed as a prim and proper southern belle. Although we meet an interesting mix of characters, none really left an impression or really made me want to keep reading to find out what happens. I ch ...more

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Aug 23, 2008 Terri rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal, celtic, vampires, urban-fantasy, fairies-faeries, set-in-ireland

Mac goes to Dublin to find her sister's kilelr. Only what she finds is going to shatter her world. She is a Sidhe seer and sees the Fae. She is caught up in events way beyond her understanding. She has the help of Barrons but he also is using her for his own ends.

I liked the book but felt it left way too many questions open at the end. And yes it is a series, but even series books should be satisfying as stand alones. This almost was. and yes I will need to read the next one to see some answes t ...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Lauren鈦� 💜 rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, fantasy-sci-fi-romance-romantasy, fantasy-science-fiction, library-has-a-copy

This is a definite stick-with-it series. I like this book well enough, but wasn't overly wowed by it, however the plot itself and world-building where interesting enough that I wanted to read the other 3 Fever books and boy am I glad I did. But I digress. This is book one and we meet Mackayla "Mac" Lane who is an early 20's pretty blonde from the south who turns out to a very powerful fairy seer. She comes to Ireland to find out who murdered her sister who was also a fairy seer. To be quite fran This is a definite stick-with-it series. I like this book well enough, but wasn't overly wowed by it, however the plot itself and world-building where interesting enough that I wanted to read the other 3 Fever books and boy am I glad I did. But I digress. This is book one and we meet Mackayla "Mac" Lane who is an early 20's pretty blonde from the south who turns out to a very powerful fairy seer. She comes to Ireland to find out who murdered her sister who was also a fairy seer. To be quite frank I couldn't stand Mac in this book, she came across as wimpy, whiny and annoying and I wanted to slap her more than once. And she also gives girls who love pink (like me) a bad name in this book. She makes us all look like a bunch of whiny wimps. You can love pink and have backbone and be brave. Anyway, she gets to Ireland and ends up working in a bookstore called Barrons Books and Baubles owned by a guy named Jericho Barrons. Barrons is in a word, an enigma. He can see the fairies, in spite of the fact that there are not supposed to be male fairy seers and he is also incredibly wealthy and there's no mention of how he got so wealthy either, he seems to be a businessman of some kind. He's also very intelligent. And did I mention seriously hot? He has an accent and has dark skin and is muscular and, I'm digressing again. Barrons was a far more interesting character than Mac, like I said he's an enigma and frankly nearly everything about the man is a big fat question mark. So on the whole for the characters, they weren't my favorite part of this book, but at least on the whole they're pretty interesting. The plot on the other hand is very interesting and was definitly enough to hook me, I enjoyed the world building and Moning's mythology quite a bit. If you didn't like this book, I would advise reading book 2 before you give up on this series entirely. It gets quite a bit better and things really start to pick up and get interesting and Mac does a complete 180 from how she is in this book, she is no longer wimpy, whiny or annoying. But don't skip reading this book, in order to understand and enjoy the rest of the series and to be able to put things in context, book 1 needs to be read. In conclusion, this is a good start to what emerges to be one of the best urban fantasy series on the market today and although it's not perfect and the later books are better, this is worth reading. ...more

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Dec 22, 2008 Wendy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-scifi-romance, were-shifter-demon-faries-other, karen-marie-moning, pub-2006, i-own, 2009-reads, november-09-challenge, whole-lot-of-other, borrowed-from-library, returned

This story is about MacKayla Lane looking for her sister's killer. She goes to Dublin, Ireland where her sister was killed. She meets Jerico Barrons who decides to help her not get killed by the many "others" out there. It was a good read and it went pretty quickly. I will be looking into more of Ms. Moning's books. ...more

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Aug 22, 2009 Larissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thiller, paranormal, fiction

Great world building! I was diappointed that there wasn't a love interest but I got over it. I love books with women who kick a**. It took awhile for her to do it but I hope the rest of the books in the series deliver. ...more

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Mar 02, 2010 RogueHireling rated it liked it · review of another edition

Trashy fluff. Still a fun read, but was expecting a bit more raciness considering the trashiness. Got to the end of hte book and thought "wheres the sex?" ...more

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