Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011

Book Review: ShadowFever by Karen Marie Moning

Author: Karen Marie Moning

The Story

The last in a series of 5 books about MacKayla Lane, ShadowFever  begins with the aftermath of Barrons’ death… Mac holding the spear that killed her beloved protector and lover.  Overwhelmed with grief and despair, Mac’s mission is to follow through with her destiny to find the Sinsar Dubah (the holy book) which she believes will aid the good forces to restore earth.  Mac’s pain drives her to become one with this powerful book so that she may reveal all of it’s secrets and abilities.  Her focus is to turn back time to bring back her dead sister, Alina, and her lover Jerricho Barrons.  

She is faced with an Unseelie enemy, Darroc, a powerful dark prince who craves the Sinsar Dubah as much, if not moreso, than Mac.  His merging with the book will bring him the power to become the Unseelie King and his sights are set on making MacKayla his queen.  Mac believes that she has the ability to fool Darroc into believing that she will become his partner in searching for the Sinsar Dubah, amongst other things including becoming his lover.  Yet, she believes that Darroc is the one who killed Alina and her revenge brews in the dark crevices of her mind, hidden from Darroc’s ability to hear her thoughts. 

With Dublin still under siege, it is MacKayla’s eventual hope to undo all that evil has done.  But, can she do it alone?  To ensure that their are no spoilers here… I will stop my summary here.  But, what I can share is that all of the loose ends, all of the quetions, get answered in this tremendous finale.  (FINALLY!)

My Review

The book series is:

• DarkFever
• BloodFever
• FaeFever
• DreamFever
• ShadowFever

If you read my previous reviews on FaeFaver and DreamFever, you will see that I was disappointed being left dangling off a cliff at the end of each book.  As it has been over a year since I read DreamFever, I wish that I would have had the time to go back and re-read the book before commencing my read of ShadowFever just to get myself re-acquainted with the story and where I left off.  However, I must give kudos to Karen Marie Moning because not long into the novel, I felt as thought I was right back on track with the storyline. 

All of my prior ranting and raving about being left wanting more completely dissapated in reading ShadowFever.  The reader gets to understand all of the truths about Rowena, V’Lane, Barrons and the Sinsar Dubah.  I am, at last, finally sated!  

The Rating

In the genre: Fiction, on Sher’s “Out of Ten Scale,” I am giving the book a 9 out of 10.   Now that the final book of the series has been published, I highly recommend you check out the books from the library at the same time, because of the cliffhangers in the prior novels, you will want to read on and on… until you reach the fantastic finale, ShadowFever! 

Many thanks to TLC Book Tours for including me on this extraordinarily popular and exciting book tour!

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