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Title: ‘Bloodfever'
Author: Karen Marie Moning Series: (Fever #2) Genre: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, New Adult, Paranormal romance, Occult fiction, Fae Publisher: Delacorte Press Year of Publication: 2007 Version: Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 978-0-440-24099-0
NOTE: Would highly recommend reading 'Darkfever' (the first book in the Fever series) before reading this review!
Review
“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it?
Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.” “The dark fever I’d caught that first night I’d set foot in Dublin had turned into a fever of a different kind: a blood-fever – as in I wanted blood, spilled for my sister.”
Sidhe-seer, seer of the Fae, Mackayla Lane is still on her quest for retribution, intent on destroying the man who took something vital from her life and heart when her sister was murdered. Mac is still apprehensively traversing what she is, who she is and the disturbing, absolute world she has found herself to be living in, having been so uninformed for the best part of her short 22 years of life in comparison to her companions. Her identity is a convoluted mess and in her lonely, colourless world, Mac is intent on finding purpose and principle – but can such a notion exist in a territory of monsters, where honourable intentions are nothing but a laughing matter where subsistence is concerned?
“Criminally young, he charged, and I can’t argue. But I can change.”
“When all the control you have over your world gets stripped away, leaving you no choice but to die – the only difference how you do it: quickly or slowly – life distils to a bitter pill. The pain I was in made it easier to swallow.”
Hunted by her sister’s murderer, the Dublin police spying on her every move, a dark spectre tracking her, a presumed dead Vampire missing, an O’Bannion’s vengeance to contend with, hordes of Unseelie Fae flooding Dublin and preying on its people, Mac Is boarded on every front and direly sustains herself on the knowledge that will maintain her existence on this paranormal scene. Her ancient sisters are hiding in the shadows, an uncovered, organised sidhe-seer society being the last line of demarcation against the nefarious Fae, but allies and enemies may be one and same, and Mac has no way to distinguish the difference in a game where too much is at stake and a person’s life is just about as expendable as the next.
“You’re in a doorway, child, one foot in, one foot out. Make up your mind. That door may close.”
“When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: Are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel".
Mac and questionable Jericho Barrons are still allied in their hunt to find the coveted Dark Book of the Fae as well as the other lost relics, and though their relationship is far from comfortable or trustworthy, Barrons seems to be there when Mac truly needs it and the only who seems to save her when she is at death’s door. ‘Death –by –sex Fae’, V’lane, Royal Prince of the Fae is still resolved on Mac’s assistance in this war to help the Seelie Queen locate the same dark book, but the Fae are illusory and unscrupulous, and Mac can’t afford to trust anyone in this squalid world, not even her alluring, taciturn mentor Mr. Barrons – irrespective of the web of brewing sexual attraction.
“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
Mac’s life is irrevocably distorted in a dark world and even worse, is being kept in the dark by everyone when now is the most vital time for her to understand the rules of the game and play her part in this conflict. Darker sides of human temperaments seem to be provoked in very normal people. Human crime rates are spiking, Dublin is in disarray and the Fae toying with the natures and will of the humans…and just when Mac organises the players on this board, more pieces fall into her lap.
“Hope is a critical thing. Without it, we are nothing. Hope shapes the will. The will shapes the world. I might have been suffering a dearth of hope, but I had a few things left: will, desperation in spades, and a chance.”
Mac seems to encapsulate the very human by-products of grief and the human tendencies to wear illusion to bear the burden of a cruel reality in this 'Bloodfever'. She finds herself changing, this dark world is bringing out the dark tones in Mac’s rainbow and her pain is rebirthing her into a bitter weapon. She is a lone cub amongst wolves who have sadistic desires to rip apart, and she is an even lonelier woman. Trust is provisional and conditioned for Mac, neither siding or completely opposing her companions of war.
“I’m not in this for the little battles. I’m here for the war.”
Dark magic, dark people and even darker incentives prompts this sequel to greater echelons. Mac is bolder, smarter, quicker, and better equipped with the dealings she encounters. She is cleverly comical in her quips, feisty in her battles and though somewhat of a novelty in this place, she crafts her own ideologies without the predisposition to become malleable to every voice in her ear. A discovering lead - the embodiment of lesson learner and usually the hard way, her strength comes from her willingness to understand those lessons, teaching her readers along the way. A mysterious anti-hero – despite his concealments and character flaws - whose actions are a language of their own and the only element that needs paying heed to where Mac is concerned.
“It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.”
Morose atmospheres and dark humour. Grey characters, and an even greyer world. Examining the facets of human nature in apocalyptic times, ‘Bloodfever’ is a riveting fanfare of ageless myth and the spellbinding craftsmanship of an erotically sadistic world. This series is fantastically written with memorable dialogue and wonderfully provocative characters twisted into this psychological occult of myterious occurrence and twisted natures.
I loved 'Bloodfever' and i didn't think my blood could ignite with such as fever for this series!
“Welcome, dance partner. Welcome to my ball here in Hell’s grotto. Death is not seductive. It does not come silk-clad and sweet-smelling as I did for my chosen. It is lonely and cold and merciless. It takes everything from you, before it finally takes you.”
I gave this book 4.5 stars -
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