I don't think that Karen Marie Moning's Fever (DarkFever, Bloodfever, and I'm assuming Sept 16th's Faefever) should be classified as romance novels. They are thrillers, action, suspense. The books don't focus on a central male/female/ romantic relationship. It is however written toward a female audience in the language and story line.
Written in the first person perspective, the Bloodfever follows a Sidheseer (a female, who can see all the creatures that project illusion and glamour to trick human minds) named Mackayla Lane (Mac) who has moved to Dublin, Ireland to find out what happened to her sister who was found murdered in Dublin after a couple months of living there. When Mac showed up, she finds that the world is so much different than her small southern town upbringing had led her to believe. The world is full of shockingly beautiful Fae (fairies), Unseelie ( Magical creatures that are the opposite of the Fae by way of attractiveness and evil) that feed off of humans, Vampires, mob bosses, and just all around corrupt people. Completely unprepared for this world she almost dies a bunch of time and would have ended the series prematurely if not for the mysterious and sexy Barrons. We don't know that much about him other than he can se the Invisibles too and he owns a bookstore. He is collecting magical artifacts called the Seelie and Unseelie Hallows. Objects of great power. Barrons is using Mac as his own personal OOPS detector.
In Bloodfever, Mac is still running around and being chased by conflicting groups of people who want to use her and then discard her: A league of Sihdseers that originally rejected her, Barrons, and a death by sex fairy named V'lane. Through out the whole thing Mac is being haunted by her own personal grimm reaper that shows up at random times through out the book and ends up being more corporeal than she thought.
Mac is a strong character who I wish was real just so I could meet her. I was fascinated by her thought process that at times branched off into the absurd. She has the weird little foibles and quirks that make her relatible. All over an incredible girl that I will continue to follow as long as the series continues.
My fervent wish is that somehow this trilogy will become linked to her highlander series that is running along the same timeline as this one. In fact we have a Mr Christian MacKelter pop up in this book and try to draft Mac into an alliance. I hope they all show up in the 3rd book including yummy Mr Adam Black. I'm getting all jittery just thinking about the possibilities.
Karen Marie Moning
Look here to find most of her books. Including Faefever coming Sept 16, 2008!
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