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Title: 'Faefever'
Author: Karen Marie Moning Series: (Fever #3) Genre: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, New Adult, Paranormal romance, Occult fiction, Fae Publisher: Delacorte Press Year of Publication: 2008 Version: Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 978-0-440-24439-4
NOTE: This review will have spoilers about this series thus far so i suggest reading the two prior books ('Darkfever' and 'Bloodfever') in this series!
Review
“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
“I keep expecting to wake up and find it was all a bad dream. Alina will be alive, I won’t be afraid of the dark, Monsters won’t be walking the streets of Dublin, And I won’t have this terrible fear that tomorrow just won’t come.”
Each time I complete a book in the ‘Fever’ series I think that these books can't possibly get any darker, any more alluring, but they do! This series enriches in how dark its gravities become. So much more. Tenfold!
“Nightfall.
What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn’t fall here. It comes slamming down."
Moning’s world of the Fae is truly gruesomely seductive, its raw, perverse, unflinching, exceptionally riveting and deceptive, her character creations are erroneously flawed, her writing is jaunty, only superseded by its richer tones of the grisly and macabre plot. Staggering histories and exciting mythologies, corrupt, ancient books and bargains and prophecies, underhanded faeries, manipulative foes and power-hungry avengers. Implacable entities and charming acquaintances, Mackayla Lane rides the unhinged train and perilous possibilities of an approaching apocalypse, a damning Armageddon set to engulf worlds and collide the facets of dimension.
“Between-ness is a defining characteristic of liminal. Limbo is another. Liminal in neither here nor there but exists between one moment and the next, poised in that pause where what’s passing hasn’t yet become what’s becoming. Liminal is a magical time, a dangerous time, fraught with
possibility…and peril.”
Objectives are more indefinable, indescribable, and the inscrutable nature of the men in Mac's life only leaves room for sinister speculation. Moning doesn’t abide by the laws of archetypes and boundary in her examinations of species and nature, nurture and beliefs of ethical dilemma. There are no lines between friendlies and foes, as most wear the same faces, distinctions are almost impenetrable when the ‘bad’ guys and ‘good’ can easily exchange faces and trade places.
“Why, oh why, do we find the most dangerous, forbidden men the most irresistible?”
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.”
The Fae world and that of Ireland’s once charming city becomes more complex, the characters more potent, and though both plot direction and resolution seemed indecisive at times, the finale reserves that which all momentum builds. It was alarming and cruel and torture to read ! The ending was not only a cliff-hanger, it was a heart-twister, a hope-killer and world-stopper! My heart bleeds for Mac! So unfortunate for such a promising protagonist, but Mac’s story has always been one for building and fortifying her own strength and vigour, and I’m sure Mac’s luminosity will surely outshine any circumstance.
“Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser, and infinitely more loving than we’re capable of understanding has a vested interest in the Universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand."
Moning calculatedly keeps her cards very close to her chest, displaying little of how this tale will play out and keeps us gripping for tangibility and substance in a world of no concretes for the main lead. We don’t know who and what we can trust, and though so much is indistinguishable, Mac is still a determined woman, channelling her independence and provoking her hidden strengths to keep herself smart and knowledgeable …and alive. She doesn’t cower, but she is still only one girl in an increasingly evolving and punishing world, because free falling into the unknown is one thing but a void, a chasm of no end, perpetual horror, and ever-dwindling light means the voices of malevolence might be too vast to scatter to ashes.
“The universe screeched in protest as barriers collapsed, and realms collided; then the night was filled with another kind of screeching.”
“No, the walls had not yet fallen. They were falling now.” I gave this book 4.2 stars -
Trigger Warning: Rape
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My Rating System: ★ - 1 star: I did not like the book ★★ - 2 stars: The book was okay ★★★ - 3 stars: It was a good, solid read ★★★★ - 4 stars: A great book ★★★★★ - 5: A phenomenal read _________________________________________
THE FOLLOWING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
Things I liked/Favourite parts:
1) MacHalo scene. 2) I love Christian! 3) Inspector Jayne becoming a potentially vital character. 4) V’lane’s gifts and attempts to win Mac over. 5) Ms. Rainbow and Mr. Night. 6) The notebook of a young boy held captive for centuries. 7) Birthday cake endeavours..seriously Barrons?! Who wastes precious cake.
Favourite Quotes:
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“Sometimes my dreams feel so real it’s hard to believe they’re just the subconscious’s stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. Sometimes it seems like Dreaming must be a land that really exists somewhere, at a concrete latitude and longitude, with its own rules and laws, treacherous terrains, and dangerous inhabitants.” “It’s not the hand you’re dealt that matters. It’s how you play the cards.” “We’re not here to speak of the dead but to plan for the living.” “You can’t change an unpleasant reality if you won’t acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you’re willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.” “I despise that phrase, Ms. Lane. Atrocities have been committed in its name. What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler’s hunger for political and spiritual dominion.” “We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence.”
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