DarkFever: Karen Marie Moning

Darkfever

(Fever Series #1)

by Karen Marie Moning

Product Details
Pub. Date: October 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover , 320pp

Synopsis:

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 Vlane–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….

First Line(s): My philosophy is pretty simple- any day nobody'svtrying to kill me is a good day in my book.

My Review: Okay, okay so I am late reading this series but that should not suprise anyone. I get to everything just on my own time!

I am glad I finally started this series. While I thought this book was slow at points it did pick up, and I love how Karen Marie Moning always uses so much details in the stories she writes. I had no problems picturing Mac in my head or Barron's.

Coming into this book I will admit I knew nothing about this series except fellow bloggers and friends raving about it and of course the author ( she is fantastic).

The second I finished this book I raced over to my book shelf and picked up the next book in the series. I can NOT wait to see what happens next to Mac and Barrons ( I hope they finally hook up... I am sure they do, but don't know for certain so hush)!

My Rating: 4 stars

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Spell of the Highlander

Spell of the Highlander

(Highlander Series #7)

by Karen Marie Moning

Jessi St. James has got to get a life. Too many hours studying ancient artifacts has given the hardworking archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she figures she must be dreaming when she spies a gorgeous half- naked man staring at her from inside the silvery glass of an ancient mirror. but when a split second decision saves her from a terrifying attempt on her life, Jessi suddenly finds herself confronting six and a half feet of smoldering, insatiable alpha male.

Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, eleven centuries ago Cian MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dark Glass, one of four coveted Unseelie Hallows, objects of unspeakable power. When the Dark Glass is stolen, an ancient enemy will stop at nothing to reclaim it, destroying everything in his path- including the one woman who may just hold the key to breaking the ninth-century Highlander's dark spell.For Jessi, the muscle- bound sex god in the mirror is not only tantalizingly real, he's offering his protection- from exactly what, Jessi doesn't know. And all he wants in exchange is the exquisite pleasure of sharing her bed.

Yet even as Cian's insatiable hunger begins to work its dark magic on Jessi, his ancient enemy is about to obtain the final and most dangerous of the Unseelie Hallows- and the ninth-century Highlander must stop him from getting it. Nothing less than the very fabric of the universe and two passionately entwines lives are at stake-- as Cian and Jessi fight to claim the kind of love that comes along but once in an ice age....


Favorite Line(s): Jessi now knew the truth was that love made brothers- and sisters- of all people. As different as they were, love was that common, defining ground, making everyone the same giddy, delirious fools for it in a thousand and one ways.

An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.

( Your feet will bring you to where you heart is).

-- Old Scots saying

Quod not cogit amor?

( is there anything love couldn't make us do?)

-- Martial, C.E. C.40-104

My Review: Spell of the Highlander may not be as steamy as other Karen Marie Moning books are in this series, but the since of urgency in the love between Jessi St. James and Cain MacKeltar makes this one of the best books in the series. Cian MAcKeltar is all Alpha man and Jessi St. James would have it no other way. This book brings back leading men from other novels in the series. It is always nice to get updates on other characters.

My Rating:

416 pages

I have received nothing for this review. I picked this book up on my own free will at the local library.

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The Immortal Highlander

The Immortal Highlander

(Highlander Series #6)

by Karen Marie Moning

With his long, black hair and dark, mesmerizing eyes, Adam Black is Trouble with a capital T. Immortal, arrogant, and intensely sensual, he is free to roan across time and continents in pursuit of his insatiable desires. That is, until a curse strips him of his immortality and makes him invisible, a cruel fate for so irresistible a man. Now Adam's only hope for survival is in the hands of the one woman who can actually see him.

Enter law student Gabrielle O'Callaghan. For Gabrielle, cursed with the ability to see both worlds, Mortal and Faery, it is the beginning of a long, dangerous seduction. But as Adam's quest to regain his immortality plunges them into a world of timeless magic, the price of surrender could be their very lives. Unless they can thwart the conspiracy the threaten both mortal and Faery realms... and give them a shot at a destiny few mortals ever know: glorious, wondrous, endless love...

Favorite Line(s): " Love means ye'd die for that person a thousand times o'er" she'd finally said gazing down at the newborn. " Ye'd give the verra last drop of all ye had to give to tarry at their side but one moment more, to behold them alive and hale and happy."

" Damed Irish. One could never predict the tempers of those fiery, moody Gaels. Obdurate as stones, they passed through the centuries untouched by evolution, as hotheaded and barbaric today as they'd been in the Iron Age". (wit woo!!)

My review:
This is not the first book in the series that mentions Adam Black. In fact he played a role in a few of the books in this series, so it was nice to see a book where he played the main character. And let me tell you... Adam belongs in a story as the leading man! Adam meets his match in the fiesty Irish lad Gabby, who has wit oozing from her. Together they make a steaming couple. This book was a great addition to this series.

My Rating:

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Dell (July 26, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440237564
ISBN-13: 978-0440237563

I received nothing for this review, I picked this book up from my local library on my own free will.

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The Dark Highlander

Dark Highlander

(Highlander Series #5)

by Karen Marie Moning

I am Dageus MacKeltar, a man with one good conscience and thirteen bad ones, driven to sate my darkest desires.... From his penthouse lair high above Manhattan, Dageus looks over a glittering city that calls to the darkness within him. A sixteenth century Scot trapped between worlds, he is fighting a losing battle with the thirteen century Druids who possess his soul, dooming him to an eternity of sexual pursuit. When Chloe Zanders, student of antiquities, is drawn into his world, she finds the insatiable alpha male and irresistible lure. Before long, she is caught up in an ancient prophecy that will sweep her back into time to medieval Scotland. Plunged into a world of timeless magic and dark seduction, she will soon face the challenge of a lifetime; fighting thirteen: evil spirits for the hear of one irresistible man....


Favorite Line(s): " If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours. I am Given".


My Review: Man, where do I sign up to get myself a 16th century Highlander. Grr baby grr! This series in general is steamy hott, but The Dark Highlander takes the cake. The added darkness that Dageus faces daily just brings a whole new level to this series. In fact I think Dageus is my new boyfriend. He goes to great lengths to protect those he loves, what could be more important than that? Add in the fact that Karen Marie Moning spared know details describing his looks and well... I am now blind to any other fictional male character. Ha Ha Ha!


My Rating:

Congratulations Karen Marie Moning! The Dark Highlander got the first 5 star rating of 2010 here at Crazy Book Slut!!

384 pages

I received nothing for this review. I picked this book up on my own free will at the local library.

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The Highlanders' Touch: Review

Highlander's Touch

(Highlander Series #3)

by Karen Marie Moning

A Warrior of Immortal Powers

He was a mighty Scottish warrior who lived in a world bound by ancient laws and timeless magic. But no immortal powers could prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely accursed lass who stood before him. A terrible trick of fate had sent her 700 years back in time and into his private chamber to tempt him with her beauty - and seduce him with a desire he could never fulfill. For this woman he burned to possess was also the woman he had foresworn to destroy.

A Woman Caught in the Mists of Time

When Lisa felt the earth move under her feet, the fiercely independent 21st-century woman never dreamed she was falling...into another century. But the powerful, naked warrior who stood glaring down at her was only too real...and too dangerously arousing. Irresistibly handsome he might be, but Lisa had no intention of remaining in this savage land torn by treachery and war. How could she know that her seductive captor had other plans for her...plans that would save her from a tragic fate? Or that this man who had long ago forsaken love would defy time itself to claim her for his own....

Favorite Line(s): " Good night Lisa, sleep with the angels. Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil who would burn in hell for one night in your arms."

My Review: The Highlander's Touch needed more closure at the end. Even if the closure came in the form of a one page epilogue. I am giving this book a solid stars, so far not my favorite in the series, but it doesn't make me not want to continue reading the series, because the book was still steamy, and Karen Marie Moning was still able to make this reader connect and feel for the two characters. Also major points for making Lisa a strong woman who spoke her mind and stood on her own two feet!

My Rating:

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Dell (November 7, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440236525
ISBN-13: 978-0440236528
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 1.1 inches

** I have received nothing for posting this review, this book was picked up from my local library on my own free will! **

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