Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Date: May 2007
Page Count: 349
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....
MY REVIEW: Mac, 22, transforms from a Georgia girl sunning herself by her family's pool to searching for her older sister, Alina's killer in Dublin. Instead of being able to close the file and return home, she is thrown into a world of monstrous Fae and becomes a partner-of-sorts to Jericho Barrons in order to search for a mysterious book described by Alina in her last message to Mac.
DARKFEVER is the equivalent to being on an amusement park ride. I read this instead of watching the SuperBowl. The story is gripping, entertaining and a page turner. Moning has created a realistic character in Mac and I like the chemistry between her and Barrons. We are privy to so many of Mac's thoughts and watch her change from an innocent, naive college student to a suspectful, untrusting woman with the ability to see and freeze Fae. Mac is likable, very funny (some of her lines had me laughing and smiling) and the story is well written. It was nice to read a story where the heroine doesn't sleep with the hero (in Mac's case her 'hero' is more of a helper/mentor, though she finds Barrons sexy, she doesn't know much about him).
RATING: ++++
FOR FANS OF: Paranormal; contemporary fantasy; romance; mystery.
SERIES: Yes, Book 1 of The Fever series.
REVIEWED BY: Laurie
BOOK SOURCE: Swapped.
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