Darkfever Karen Marie Moning

Darkfever

First Published 2006
309 Pages

ISBN: 0385339151
Reviewer
Amanda
February 2006

A quest for answers about how her sister died leads Macayla (Mac Lane) to Ireland, but she finds more questions in the answers. She discovers that she did not even know who she herself truly is. She is a sidhe seer, one who can see past the glamors of the Fey and perceive the true horrors. Because of this, she is valuable to Jericho Barrons, a man who is more than he seems, and who may be able to help her while she assists him in finding objects of power with which to fight against the growing tide of evil the Unseelie Court, among others, is unleashing on the mortal world. Temptation, horror, and danger lie around every corner, especially those corners that no one sees.

This is a book to savor even as you want to find out what happens next as soon as possible. Though there is no overt romance between Barrons and Mac, the tension sizzles. Mac is a very down to earth, easy to identify with heroine, and it is going to be most difficult to wait for Blood Fever to tell more of her story.








 
 

Synopsis
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...