Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning (Fever #5)

 

5+++/5 Hearts, 5 Hearts isn't enough for this wonderful book and series



I've loved every hour, second and minute of this series. It tore at my heart, made me feel scared for the characters, suprised me and quite often left me sitting in complete and utter shock up to the point where I was sometimes affraid to go on reading.



Books rarely give me emotions like that and I know that when I feel them I've come across a new favorite series.

This series has everything you could possibly want and this book was the perfect ending to this wonderful series.

The book continues where the other one left me in complete shock. I loved how the story developed even more. Mac faces an everlasting battle with her identity and has some very difficult choices to make. I've grown to love Mac and JZB. Especially Jericho, now I understand why everyone adores him. What a character he is!



There isn't really that much to say that I haven't said in my reviews of the first books. It's a wonderful fantasy series - the best I've read in ages - and I'm very glad I decided to read it - even though I thought I wouldn't enjoy it.



I'm not sure I'll read the next books from Dani's POV, because I didn't really enjoy her POV in these books. But maybe I will. Part of me isn't ready to be done with this series, these characters and this world.

I'm thrilled I know the ending, but saddened that I've finished it and will never have the experience of reading it for the first time again. Great, great books - that you really should give a chance if you're even remotely interested

Read in January 2014

Other reviews in this series:
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (The Fever series #1) 
Moning, Karen Marie - Bloodfever (The Fever Series #2)
Moning, Karen Marie - Faefever (The Fever Series #3)
Moning, Karen Marie - Dreamfever (The Fever Series #4)
Moning, Karen Marie - Shadowfever (The Fever Series #5) 

Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning (Fever #4)

 

                                                         5/5 black and crimson hearts!

Every book, you think it can't get any better. And every book this series manages to do just that!
The book continues after the horrible events at the end of faefever. I have to admit that I hated the beginning of the book from Dani's point of view and was very happy to return to Mac's POV.

She is still not herself from the events in the last book, but Barrons is 'working' really hard to get her back to her old self again. and you see a bit of a different side to him. Dancing and all, no less!

"I want it to always be like this", I tell him. His nostrils flare, obsidian eyes mock. "Try holding on to that thought."
"I do not need to try. I will never feel differently."
"Ah, Mac," he says, and his laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, "one day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more."

"Don't leave me." I trash in the sheets. "I'm not, Mac."
I know I'm dreaming then, because dreams are home to the absurd and what he says next is beyond absurd. "You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl."

A lot of things happen in this book and I'm once again astounded by the ability of Karen Marie Moning to build the world around Mac. Mac grows even more into her own and who she is supposed to be in the future. We get a hint of the prophecy and discover what magical worlds lay in the silvers.
The ending left me in total and complete shock and I'm almost afraid to read the next book to find out if my suspisions are correct - which I really think they are! It's a heartbreaking and confusing end.

Read in January 2014

Other reviews in this series:
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (The Fever series #1) 
Moning, Karen Marie - Bloodfever (The Fever Series #2)
Moning, Karen Marie - Faefever (The Fever Series #3)
Moning, Karen Marie - Dreamfever (The Fever Series #4)
Moning, Karen Marie - Shadowfever (The Fever Series #5) 

Faefever by Karen Marie Moning (Fever #3)

 

 

5/5 flying pink cake Hearts!

This series just keeps getting better and better. I really felt for Mac. She's all alone in this book and can't trust anyone - which becomes even worse and worse. A lot of her hopes are squashed and she once again has to fend for herself in the big bad world - all alone.

"At home in Ashford, I have a great group of friends. I don't have a single one in Dublin. The one place I thought I might make friends was at the abbey, among my own kind. Now thanks to Rowena, that opportunity was closed to me"

I hated Rowena even more in this book and sometimes wanted to slap her. I was okay with Dani, thought I must admit I'm not a huge fan of her.



I still love Jericho Z Barrons and he gets more intriguing every book. Still an ass, but a very interesting and hot one.

"Then Barrons said softly, "You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man". "screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man either."

V'lane shows up in this book as well. Still not sure what to think of him, but he is interesting enough.

"I'm preparing to give you the way to summon me, human. Stand still for it."
Ä kiss? Oh, please! I'm not that -"
"My name on your toungue. I cannot teach you to say it. Humans do not possess the ability to form such sounds. But I can give it you. With my mouth, I can place it on your tongue."

I'm not sure what else to say... the series is great. The writing is great and I love the world building that Karen Marie Moning has implemented in this story. You really should read this series, but by the time you've reached this book, you're probably as hooked as the rest of us already!

I thought the ending was quite shocking and I'm glad I could move on to the next book immediately!

Read in January 2014

Other reviews in this series:
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (The Fever series #1) 
Moning, Karen Marie - Bloodfever (The Fever Series #2)
Moning, Karen Marie - Faefever (The Fever Series #3)
Moning, Karen Marie - Dreamfever (The Fever Series #4)
Moning, Karen Marie - Shadowfever (The Fever Series #5) 
 

Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (Fever #2)

 

4.5/5 Hearts

After I read the first book, I couldn't wait to move on the next book. As it happens, this book was even better than the first book. 

 "One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence."

I liked Mac more in this book, she's getting more into her own and she's getting more and more used to the fact that she's supposed to be doing this. She is stronger and I felt bad for her when things didn't go her way.

"Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It's like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head in its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs

I was also even more intrigued by Jericho Barrons in this book. He remains brooding, dark and kind of an ass. That keeps disappearing, but mostly appearing at exactly the right time. You can tell he's not who he claims to be, but I'm extremely curious to find out what and who he really is. I like Mac and Jericho together. They have funny arguments and you can feel the chemistry between them, though it's very slowly building.

"I have lost. Many things. And no, I am not like any other player in this game and I will never be like V'lane, and I get a hard-on a great deal more ofthen than occasionally."He leaned fully against me and I gasped."Sometimes it's over a spoiled little girl, not a woman at all. And yes, I trashed the bookstore wen I couldn't find you. You'll have to choose a new bedroom, too. And I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you."

You get more of V'lane as well in this book. He's an interesting character, that once again... you don't know that much about. But it isn't really that annoying. Step by step you get to know a little more about these characters in these books. Just like you would with real people.



The story starts to get so much better and darker and interesting as it gradually moves on. I find the world and story itself very intriguing and I enjoy reading it very much. I stayed up until 3 am to finish this book, because I had to find out what would happen next. The book does end on a cliffhanger and the next books continues from the exact moment this one ended.

The foreshadowing in the first book really annoyed me eventually, but it didn't as much in this book. I'm not sure if that's because I'm starting to get used to it or because it's really less annoying here.

I think it will turn out to be one of my favorite series! I kind of hope the books don't keep getting better and better, or soon I'll run out of stars!







  

Read in January 2014

Other reviews in this series:
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (The Fever series #1) 
Moning, Karen Marie - Bloodfever (The Fever Series #2)
Moning, Karen Marie - Faefever (The Fever Series #3)
Moning, Karen Marie - Dreamfever (The Fever Series #4)
Moning, Karen Marie - Shadowfever (The Fever Series #5) 

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

 4/5 stars

I really enjoyed reading the first book in the fever series. I'm glad I bought the five book bundle for very little money earlier this week. The series seems to be well worth it.

MacKayla's (Mac) sister is found murdered in an alley. In an attemp to get the police officers looking for her murderer again, she flies to dublin (Ireland) to persuade them. There, she discovers that Dublin is not what is seems.

 

I enjoyed Mac as a heroine. She's strong, self-sufficient and doesn't take no for an answer. She doesn't wait for the hero to swoop in, she goes out and looks for things on her own. She starts of as sweet and innocent and slowly develops into a stronger person. The Sidhe-seer she is supposed to be.

By coincidence she ends up in the book store or Jericho Barrons.

 Jericho is kind of an a-hole. But I found him fascinating from the beginning and I wondered who he was and what he is. He's not nice, patient and loving. He is hard, cold and interesting.

“Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.”

There is also V'lad. Who is a prince Fae and interesting, but I suspect will play a bigger role in the books to come. Not very much is known about him now, except being able to make women undress themselves and wanting to slepe with him without even noticing it.

I liked how the story developped, you learn to discover this new world with Mac. I enjoyed her journey and found the fae very interesting. Though I found all the different types of fae in this book a little confusing at first, I caught up to it eventually. But that could be because I'm new to the fae genre and haven't read fantasy in a while. Their discription is sometimes gross, for example:

"...gaunt, emaciated to the point of death, it was tall - and I'm talking like nine feet tall. It was gray and leprous from head to toe, covered with oozing, open sores. I was sort of human, by that I mean it had the basic parts: arms, legs and heads. But that was where the resemblace ended. Its face was twice as tall as a human head and squished thin, no wider than my palm. It's eyes were black with no irises or whites. When it spoke, I could see that its moth - which consumed the entire lower half of its hideous fase - wasn't pink inside, it had a tongue and gums that were the same gray color as the rest of its rotting flesh and covered with the same wet sores.."

Others were more funny:

"It stood on legs like tree trunks and its male sex organ was distended and grotesquely overzived. I mean, as big around as a baseball bat and hanging past its knees"

One thing I didn't like about the book was all the foreshadowing in it. It kind of ruined the suprise quite a lot of times in the book and I'm just not a big fan of that. A few examples:

"One day I would know that for the lie it was. But not before I'd been burned by the truth in it"

"By ommision or commision, one orange, two candy bars, a bag of pretzels, and 25 hours later, I had blood on my hands"

"I walked into what all sidhe-seers would one day be calling what I'd christened it, what would one day, and not too far off, begin showing up in cities scattered around the entire globe: a Dark Zone."

I just hate it when the suprises are ruined.

But that was really the only thing that troubled me about this book. I liked the writing, I liked the story, I liked the characters and I've already started the second book and that one is looking to be even better. So if you haven't read this book already and you like adult fantasy novels, you should really give it a try!


 Read in january, 2014

Other reviews in this series:
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever (The Fever series #1) 
Moning, Karen Marie - Bloodfever (The Fever Series #2)
Moning, Karen Marie - Faefever (The Fever Series #3)
Moning, Karen Marie - Dreamfever (The Fever Series #4)
Moning, Karen Marie - Shadowfever (The Fever Series #5)