Darkfever

This is a really refreshing series. I'm absolutely obsessed with Mac and Barrons! Plus their banter is great. I'm really looking forward to continuing this series and seeing their slow burning romance continue to unravel. I also really want to learn more about the Fae and Alina, and even Barrons and Mac and what their powers are.

WHAT
A cheap erotic fantasy story where a innocent hot young girl meets an older dangerous hot guy, thrown in some vampires and sex addicted faes for some flavor. Her sister is dead and she wants to find the murderer by herself, never mind she can't kill a cockroach to save her life or have the capacity to go to the store to buy poison to kill it from a distance.

TLDR
+ readable
- unexciting plot
- foolish protagonist
- self spoiled narrative

SUMMARY
MacKayla Lane if a typical southern belle. She is in her early twenties, works as a bartender to pay the bills, spends her time by the sunbathing at the pool. She is very beautiful, curvy and innocent. Her world is turned upside down when her sister who is living in Ireland is brutally murdered.

Upset because the police has given up finding her murderer after a few weeks, she decides to fly there in order to convince them to continue the investigation. Alone in a strange country where she can barely understand what the people are saying, she is unable to talk to the police inspector assigned to the case of her sister's murder right away. So, she decides to investigate it herself.

Some weird things start to happen around her, as she slowly finds out there is more to this world then the eyes can see, and she is uniquely capable to see them.

Out of her depth, with no especial skills that can help her to defend against natural or supernatural threats, she is forced to rely on the help of a mysterious stranger, a handsome older and wiser man, with chiseled chin and... you get the drill.

This emotionally unavailable, chauvinistic bad boy, father figure, decides that he can use her for his purposes, and so their partnership forged. Now MacKayla must avoid the dangers of sex to the death with faes, vampires and whatnots, who have supernatural abilities that makes them drop panties irresistible to women.

ANALYSIS
Well, it was pretty clear where I was getting myself into right from the start:
- the book is called called Dark Fever
- it has a cover showing a naked hot, naked male and female upper torsos
- its written by Karen “Moning”
- took quite a while to find a male reviewer on Good Reads
- the first few lines mention that there are two kinds of faes: the ones who kill you on sight and the others who use you for sex

Exposition through describing future events was kind of annoying. I would rather discover about faes and the protagonist's powers together with her, along the development of the story. Instead that is described in the prologue. This artifice is also used sparsely through out the book, ruining the “surprises” it could have presented.

“I would later find out that he was lying but at this point I believed him

faes

Just what I was looking for!

I adored Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series but it took me a while to decide if I was interested in the Fever Series. Now, I'm kicking myself for not giving it more of a chance years ago. Granted, it's October and I'm super primed for the paranormal reads right now but I'm really happy with where the series is headed. This is a world and character building book, so be patient with Mac if she annoys you at first. I'm still not sure what I think about Barrons but I'd love to spend some time with Vlane!

I don't know if I was reading a different book than everyone else, or what.

Positives: It was a fairly quick read. Which was probably the only thing that kept me from Lemming it.

Negatives:
The main character - was not someone I could get behind. This may just be me, as I can be a tom-boy sometimes, but her fussing over clothes and nails was totally lost on me. She was also a strange combination of whiney and get-along-go-along (by that I mean she was willing to just blase go along without any answers).
The side characters - were totally unlikable. I wanted to like Jericho, but there was never a thaw in his rude behavior. As for the other characters, the author barely brush pasted them and the attention they get showed them in a very negative/annoying light.
The world building - was not there. Having Jericho be so aloof with his answers means that I know more about Mac's fashion sense than the world.
The writing - felt very repetitive and time-skip narration was a total distraction.
Oh well, turns out I am in the minority disliking this book, but to each his/her own.