Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning - Review

Title: Bloodfever (Fever #2)
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Source: Self-Purchased
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: Novel
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Rating - 4
Sexual - 2

I used to be your average, everyday girl but all that changed one night in Dublin when I saw my first Fae, and got dragged into a world of deadly immortals and ancient secrets...

In her fight to stay alive, MacKayla must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over the worlds of both the Fae and Man. Pursued by assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she can’t trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and powerful men: V’lane, the immortal Fae Prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man as irresistible as he is dangerous.

For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.

I can really see why this series is so popular. MacKayla is the type of character that just about anyone can relate to, and I love her attitude with all the crazy crap going on around her. A couple mysteries are solved in this one, but a million more are presented.

Baron's is just as mysterious as ever, if not more so, and I'm still wondering what his real motives are. V'lane seems to be playing nice, or at least trying to, but you can never really tell with the fae. But he definitely adds an important element to the story. Not quite danger, but it could turn that way very quickly.

There's some grossness, some sweetness, some breakdowns, and some enlightening moments. Such a fun story to just fall into. MacKayla's constant changing perspective continues to be more and more interesting.

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Urban Fantasy Review: Darkfever (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning

Title: Darkfever (Fever #1)
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Source: Self-Purchased
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: Novel
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Rating - 5
Sexual - 1

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….

So, yes, I am finally starting this series after looking at it on my selves for a couple years (I actually have the old covers).  The think that stood out the most to me was the world itself.  It is so incredibly well developed.  While it is based on our modern-world, the "dark areas" are taking over.  Now these are some pretty seriously scary places that I would never want to visit.  They were just so well written that I got chills any time someone had to go there.

The fae creatures themselves, both Seelie and Unseelie, were also very well developed.  I loved the scenes of Mac running into the Seelie prince.  They were humorous and a little frightening at the same time - it takes skill to write that mix well.  The various lesser "baddies" that Mac runs into were also given plenty of details - Moning didn't skimp on them just because they may not have been as important.  They were a vital part in setting the stage and atmosphere.

The story is a bit unpredictable - but it's in a good way.  I was constantly wonder what was going to happen next and then I was surprised to find out what it was.  There is  plenty of action and a bit of sleuthing and detective work that really drew me in.  I needed to know "who-dun-it".  There is a bit of resolution at the end, but not nearly enough to satisfy me.  I'm really glad I have more of the series ready to pick up as soon as I can.

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Review for The Dark Highlander

Title:The Dark Highlander
Author:


Summary:
Journey to a world of ancient magic, breathtaking sensuality, thrilling time-travel.... Journey to the world of The Dark Highlander. Crisscrossing the continents and the centuries, here is a novel as gripping as it is sensual--an electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless....

I am Dageus MacKeltar, a man with one good conscience and thirteen bad ones, driven to sate my darkest desires…

From his penthouse lair high above Manhattan, Dageus looks out over a glittering city that calls to the darkness within him. A sixteenth-century Scot trapped between worlds, he is fighting a losing battle with the thirteen Druids who possess his soul, dooming him to an eternity of sexual pursuit. When Chloe Zanders, student of antiquities, is drawn into his world, she finds the insatiable alpha male an irresistible lure.Before long, she is caught up in an ancient prophecy that will sweep her back into time to medieval Scotland. Plunged into a world of timeless magic and dark seduction, she will soon face the challenge of a lifetime: fighting thirteen evil spirits for the heart of one irresistible man....


Laurie's rating 4/5

Lauries's review:

I really like this series.. I found I like time travel but who wouldn’t want to go back into in the sixteenth century and end up with a sexy Druid highlander, I’m like where is the sign up sheet I go!!

This book is on Dagrus and Chloe, it had a little more humor then the others to me, I loved it when he found Chloe under his bed, I really liked Dagrus he has a hard way to go with the ancients in him, but he does it.. I had a harder time liking Chloe she was a stick in the mud to me, but they both fit together well, Dagrus just has to work harder on Chloe. In this book Drustan and Gwen was brought back in so you get to read a little more on them, its gets funny when the twins met again. All in all these books are a joy to read and Moning knows how to write sex..If you have as of yet given theses a try please do..
Below is the link for Moning's Highlander series
http://www.karenmoning.com/novels/index_highlander.html

Review Kiss the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

Ttile: Kiss the Highlander this is the number four in the Highlander series
Author: Karen Marie Moning
My rating. 4/5

Summary:
A laird trapped between centuries...

Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he’d ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world. Drustan knew he had to return to his own century if he was to save his people from a terrible fate. And he needed the bewitching woman by his side....

A woman changed forever in his arms...

Gwen Cassidy had come to Scotland to shake up her humdrum life and, just maybe, meet a man. How could she have known that a tumble down a Highland ravine would send her plunging into an underground cavern — to land atop the most devastatingly seductive man she’d ever seen? Or that once he’d kissed her, he wouldn’t let her go?

Bound to Drustan by a passion stronger than time, Gwen is swept back to sixteenth-century Scotland, where a treacherous enemy plots against them ... and where a warrior with the power to change history will defy time itself for the woman he loves....

My review:
Very good book it's different how many people get to go on vacation and end up back into the sixteenth century plus get a hunk that is a Druid that needs no sock to stuff his pants ya, thats in the book..This book did drag some before it ended but it was a good easy read. If you haven't read this series give it a try the first book was slow but the last four has been really good.