Name: Fever Moon
ISBN: 9780345525482

Karen Marie Moning

In graphic novel format, follows MacKayla's rescue from the Fear Dorcha by the dreamy-eyed bartender, an event that prompts an extraordinary adventure for young sidhe-seer Dani.

Fever Moon

An all-new Mac & Barrons story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, marvelously adapted into a graphic novel by writer David Lawrence and illustrator Al Rio In Fever Moon, we meet the most ancient and deadly Unseelie ever created, the Fear Dorcha. For eons, he’s traveled worlds with the Unseelie king, leaving behind him a path of mutilation and destruction. Now he’s hunting Dublin, and no one Mac loves is safe. Dublin is a war zone. The walls between humans and Fae are down. A third of the world’s population is dead and chaos reigns. Imprisoned over half a million years ago, the Unseelie are free and each one Mac meets is worse than the last. Human weapons don’t stand a chance against them. With a blood moon hanging low over the city, something dark and sinister begins to hunt the streets of Temple Bar, choosing its victims by targeting those closest to Mac. Armed only with the Spear of Destiny and Jericho Barrons, she must face her most terrifying enemy yet.

Fever Moon (Graphic Novel)

Sarah Escorsa

I only found out about Fever Moon only two days ago and just had to read it. Because, you know, Barrons. I mean, I'd been clean for almost two whole weeks and desperately needed a JZB fix. Desperately. So I decided to give this a try even though I hardly ever read comics and graphic novels.

First things first: I hate the illustrations. The characters look nothing like what I pictured in that little head of mine. Worse, they're your typical comic book clichés: slutty looking chicks and huge, muscled guys bursting out of their t-shirts. 

Mac looks like a freaking amazon warrior complete with thin waist, huge boobs and a big butt.



Barrons looks just plain ugly:



Now if they'd made him look like this…



But I digress.

(view spoiler)[Do NOT click on this spoiler if you haven't read Shadowfever (hide spoiler)](view spoiler)[Barrons in animal form is alright I guess. A freaky looking beast but not too bad:

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Rowena looks just…wrong. I mean, a plump little old lady? Sorry, that's not Rowena.



The only characters that don't look too bad are Dani (of all people!), Jayne and the Dreamy Eyed Guy.







The story? Just meh. It wasn't too bad at first but then I pretty much lost interest after a while. I did like the passage about the UP and the concubine but it's only a few pages long. What I enjoyed most here? The Fear Dorcha taking Dani's mouth away hahahahaha! Peace & silence! There is a God and He loves me! Unfortunately it didn't last very long… Oh well, at least we don't get to see (or hear) much of Dani here;)

What bothered me most in Fever Moon is that I kept trying to figure out where the story fit in the series and it confused the hell out of me. I know I shouldn’t have focused on that but I couldn’t help it. I guess Fever Moon hovers somewhere over Shadowfever (view spoiler)[(after Mac finds out Barrons is still alive but before she realizes Dani was involved in Alina's death) (hide spoiler)]. I think I would have enjoyed the story much more if it hadn't been for the illustrations but I just couldn't bring myself to like them. 

Ultimately Fever Moon doesn't add anything to the series. I guess it's worth skimming through if you're a hard-core Fever fan and need your fix before Burned is released. I wouldn't recommend buying it though: at about 10€ for the Kindle edition I'd say save your money and check it out from the library if you can.