Karen Marie Moning

Fae seer and slayer MacKayla Lane succumbs to her passions while witnessing the crumbling of boundaries between the faerie and human worlds.

Shadowfever

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it. BONUS: This edition contains a deleted scene from Shadowfever and an excerpt from Karen Marie Moning's Iced. Look for all of Karen Marie Moning’s sensational Fever novels: DARKFEVER | BLOODFEVER | FAEFEVER | DREAMFEVER | SHADOWFEVER | ICED | BURNED | FEVERBORN | FEVERSONG

Fever Series Book 5

Amelia Hruby

Ok I totally lost track of which book is which in this series. But apparently this is the last book of the first 5. I loved it!

Sarah Escorsa

First reread with my girl Tanya, January 2015.

Think you'll be getting another review from me after this reread? Nope. Why? Burned. Tomorrow. Freaking out. Review. Write. Can't.

This one? As. Awesome. As. Ever.



Original review: November 2014

Mother of all buddy reads starting December, 1 2014.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to this brand new episode of the Fever Freak's Facts of Life.

A quick reminder before we begin: this is not actually me writing this review, it's the 15 year old fangirl who possessed my body when I started reading this series.

Fact #1: KMM is insane

Reading this book makes you feel like:



And a bit like:



And a lot like:



Fact #2: Long gone is Rainbow Girl, meet Mac 5.0

Mac is angry. Mac is fierce. Mac is, hum, slightly bipolar. 



Mac is suffering from hormone overload. She's got it bad. Really bad. Can't say I blame her though. (view spoiler)[Who wouldn't after being screwed back to life by Jericho Freaking Barrons? (hide spoiler)]



Fact #3: JZB

Do we really have to go into this again? Seriously? This really is exhausting. Why JZB? Because, you know, JZB.



Get it? No? How about this:



Still not getting it? Forget it, you're obviously hopeless. 

Fact #4: Hallelujah for the deed is finally done!!

Well, technically it was already done but this here is just... Hey, is it really hot in here all of a sudden or is it just me? (view spoiler)[Sexual tension? None whatsoever. Not a bit. (hide spoiler)]



Fact #5: V'Lane

Just because we all need a little V'Lane in our lives. (view spoiler)[Big spoilers ahead, do not click if you haven't read the book. (view spoiler)[Yeah yeah yeah, I know. He's really Cruce, he raped Mac and pretty much absorbed the whole Sinsar Dubh. So the guy isn't perfect. But he sure is pretty hot. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]



That's V'Lane in a nutshell for you.

Fact #6: Dani

I used to like Dani. Really I did. Maybe if she dropped the "feck" and "dude" and "mega" and "super" everything she might get back in my good graces. Maybe. Not sure. Dreading Iced right now.



Fact #7: The Nine are yummy bastards

Assholes? Definitely. Oozing hotness? You bet. (view spoiler)[Want to know exactly how hot these guys get? Go read this Burned teaser. Please try and refrain from drooling, fanning yourself, swooning etc. Thank you. (hide spoiler)]



Fact #8: The whole freaking book



Fact #9: As always, love my Crazy Fever Freaks!

Sali Nim

Tbh this series was so good to read. I enjoyed myself thoroughly and I loved the story and the world building. I liked the pace and how easily it was to read. How emotional I got and how invested I was. I totally lost myself. It was that good. 

So you might wonder why the books never got more than 2-3 stars? Honestly, if I ignored certain things, I would've easily given the last 2 books at least 5 stars, but as it is, I thought I was very generous. These books are so problematic, I sometimes had to suppress the urge to drop them. The author was OBSESSED with rape and didn't handle the matter sensitively. There was a lot of victim-blaming and tbh I don't understand why this element was added to the story in the first place. There could've been tons of other ways to create trouble, trauma. The introduction to rape was just tasteless. And the comments some of the characters were so vulgar and heartless it honestly made me dislike the author, not the characters. I felt like I could read the author's thoughts in the way she wrote certain things and tbh it was so flawed, it made me fell uncomfortable and violated. There are other things that shone through that I didn't like (fatphobic and homophobic comments for example), but that I won't get into, because for me the rape-talk was the most disturbing of all.

That said, if you can ignore the problematic stuff (ngl it wasn't always easy, but I managed with a lot of effort), the books were really good to read. I will not finish the whole series though, since this one gave me closure and I didn't feel like it was lacking and also because I found out that a grooming story line will be added and yeah, I've had my fair share of bs and am not ready to put up with more.

Lanie H

Jade DeArmond

Tifani Dyson

Madelen Ehlis

Hyacinthe Karin

Recommended by Charlaine Harris, author of the series that inspired HBO's hit series TRUE BLOOD, this new #1 Bestselling series will take readers by storm! In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? From the luxury of the Lord Master's penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac's journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world ... or destroy it.

Shadowfever

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