Darkfever
Darkfeverby Karen Marie MoningA while back, while wandering a bookstore at lunch with a friend, she picked up some books from the romance section and said I should read them. Now, I hate romance, but this friend is also the reason I read a Nora Roberts trilogy set in Ireland. Oddly enough this series is also set in Ireland, but I wouldn't call it romance. And my friend told me I should read it because it has faeries in it.Now I know that many paranormal/urban fantasy novels get shelved in the romance sections rather than the sci-fi/fantasy ones. So with a pointed glare at my friend, I picked up the book and read the summary on the back. It sounded interesting enough, but I wasn't buying books that day and really didn't want to buy it if it stank. Which, if I would just learn to TRUST this friend I would know wouldn't be the case.A month or so went by and then I thought, oh, maybe I can borrow this series for my trip! And I asked her and got the first two books. I liked the first book enough that I went out and bought my own copies last week. Heh.Because I suck at summarizing, here's the blurb from the hardcover edition as written on Amazon:
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 V'lane–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….
Here's the thing though, the book is written in first person point of view and I don't think the author did a very good job with it. Every time something would happen the event would start with "I didn't know it then, but soon..." or "Later on I would come to realize that..." Foreshadowing wasn't the forte in this book. The foreshadowing sort of hit you over the head with a blunt object and then poked you in the eye to make sure you knew it was there.Don't get me wrong, I liked Mac a lot and I think the plot is interesting and the writing is decent. I was just getting aggrivated when each event in the book started with a "later on..." type sentence.Oh, and the best thing? There was no sex in the entire book! None! There were a couple of sexual scenes, but nothing all that graphic or just in there to be in there sort of sex. It was lovely. I will admit it was my biggest fear picking up these books from the romance section about faeries - especially when one is described as being a death-by-sex fae.I am curious to know more about Jericho Barrons as he doesn't seem quite like a normal human, then again, turns out Mac isn't either. But there's something more about him and it's the mystery I find entertaining. I can't wait to start the second book, Bloodfever - but my copy of Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev came in the mail on Thursday and I think that's where my heart lies right now!The Fever series