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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark, Delicious, Funny - everything you expect from KMM!, 24 Oct 2007
Bloodfever is the very satisfying second instalment of Karen Marie Moning's intended five part series 'The MacKayla Lane Chronicals'. Southern `Princess' MacKayla continues the story she began in Darkfever, effortlessly sweeping you into her struggle to avenge the death of her sister in Dublin as she also starts to investigate her previously unsuspected abilities as one of the world's most powerful Sidhe-seers - the long-hidden breed of human women able to `see' the Fae.
As MacKayla becomes increasingly entangled in the timeless battle for power between the `Seelie' and `Unseelie' Fae, in Bloodfever it is her relationship with the enigmatic Jerrico Barrons, his secrets and the shifting relationship between them that truly fascinates. As different factions compete to secure the most powerful of Dark Hallows, the Sinsar Dubh, MacKayla starts to see that the ability to distinguish good and evil around her and even within herself may not be as simple and easy as she once believed.
Karen Marie Moning's characters have a clarity and depth that is rewarding and MacKayla's growing self-awareness and self-effacing humour is the perfect foil for Barrons cool self-control. It's hard not to want to know just where these two will end up especially with Death-by-Sex Fae Prince V'Lane never too far away. Even if you weren't completely sold on Darkfever I highly recommend you read Bloodfever. You will no doubt be lining up to get the third instalment of the series, Faefever, when it is published - probably just behind me!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Catch the fever for Bloodfever!, 19 Oct 2007
I eased into the story of Bloodfever with very little effort as the thoughts and feelings of Mac quickly made me a part of her world again!
Mac's world is no longer filled with sunbathing at the pool, pink clothes and magazine's but with the Unseelie, dark comfortable clothes and living in a bookstore. Life pulled a 180 on her and she was handling it so far, still the shades grew bolder by the day, old and new enemies finding her and she remains at Barrons side for the quest of the Sinsar Dubh. Many obstacles are in their way with an inspector that watches her closely, her father whom brings a visit and like a home beacon for trouble many want Mac out of the way. Yet, Mac's stubbornness for information leads her to new grounds...
In Bloodfever things become darker and nastier as Mac's journey continues. I enjoyed myself, getting acquainted again with the quirky humor of Mac and the effect she has on her surroundings. Sometimes I read a story which effortlessly wraps me up, taking me in to a world that is relentless to let me go, this happened to me with Bloodfever. Karen Moning gave me what I came to expect from her, quality, a world that holds me in its grip and intense characters that make me relate to the journey and emotions they're feeling. And intense they were, with electrified energy between Barrons and Mac it is a sinful pleasure to read their conversations and non verbal communications. At times I thought: `when is this going to erupt into something wickedly physical?' Though Barrons is gorgeous, arrogant and has a large dose of mystery I didn't get to witness him in a wickedly physical state...much! Still he's one of the most delectable men I've ever read about and the only frustration I had was that I didn't read enough of the man in Bloodfever.
V'Lane, to me, is a category all on its own, giving us a new feel to the Fae world and still oddly it remains the same. Mac takes centre stage of course as this book is written from the first person. Mac is bold, she's fresh with a language of her own that makes me smile and has a zest for life that makes heroines out of women! Because Karen Moning portraits such a strong personality with her own habits and reading just about her every thought, I connected very easily with Mac again, empathizing with her during the journey and choices she makes. She grows, learns and I for one am very curious where she ends up and with who!
Though I didn't experience the revelations in Bloodfever as mind blowing they were still very interesting! I kind of feel like Karen Moning has a strategy in mind, which of course she only knows, and all the characters need to be in a certain place for a spectacular final. Only, we're nowhere near the ending of these Chronicles, so I'm left with this tortures feeling of where this is all going. Still, from first till last page my interest was played by bits of new information or characters that kept me eager and flipping the pages to find out where Bloodfever would end. Because Barrons, sort of, remains wrapped up in mystery, V'Lane cloaked in death-by-sex energy and Mac still tries to unravel it all!
With this novel I feel that Karen Moning isn't going to give it to us easy but who wants easy when hard-to-get is so much fun!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
KMM is one of the best storytellers around , 15 Dec 2007
I felt once the action started (say, oh about chapter 2, LOL) it never stopped! So much was packed into this book, it left me shocked, excited, scared, weepy and a range of other emotions. I wasn't reading what Mac was going through, I was living it. Of course I want more. It's a KMM book. I always want more. She could write a thousand page book and I would want more. I've always enjoyed her heroines but Mac is shaping up to be one of my all time favorites. Were all of our questions answered? That would be a no. But this is only the 2nd book out of a 5 books series and I look forward to the journey. KMM is one of the best storytellers around and I can't wait for her next book!!!! I would also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates--if you haven't read it yet.
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