Shadowfever - Karen Marie Moning

Shadowfever

By Karen Marie Moning

  • Release Date: 2011-01-18
  • Genre: Paranormal Romance
Score: 4.5
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

 
MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. 

Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. 

What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. 

In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. 
Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? 

From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

BONUS: This edition contains a deleted scene from Shadowfever and an excerpt from Karen Marie Moning's Iced.

Look for all of Karen Marie Moning’s sensational Fever novels:
DARKFEVER | BLOODFEVER | FAEFEVER | DREAMFEVER | SHADOWFEVER | ICED | BURNED | FEVERBORN | FEVERSONG

Reviews

  • Favorite book

    5
    By hannah30389
    Hands down my favorite book. I couldn’t stop reading!!
  • This series rocked my world.

    5
    By bumbleeebreee
    I literally couldn’t stop reading. I don’t even know what to do now that it is over.
  • I want more!

    5
    By MissJHart22
    I couldn't imagine a world without Mac and Barrons. It just wouldn't be right! This last fever book was electrifying. I'm not sure what Ms. Moning was doing at the precise moment she created this heat between Barrons and Mac or what she was even thinking, maybe there are creatures out there that possessed her wrote their stories thru her pen...I'm not sure. But what a story I loved every minute of the non-verbal conversations between Mac and Barrons and I wanted to hate Dani but couldn't. I wanted to know more about Barrons but if it means dying I'm fine with him just being the beast! Where are our Barrons at maybe I will take a trip to Dublin! Great, Great, great book!
  • Awesome

    5
    By Irish kit
    Love every one of these book, I have read every book karen has written, can't wait for the rest of iced series, and please write about Christian .........
  • So good

    5
    By Ashlynn721
    This is my favorite series. I love this story.
  • Love it!

    5
    By Mousehousemate
    Always a great ride. Sad to see it end.
  • Bloated series with an unsatisfying end

    3
    By Savvy Apper
    This is the final of a five book series that tells one story. Each book ends with a cliff hanger, mid-scene, encouraging the reader to continue on. This book cannot stand alone, yet is bloated with extended summaries from the previous installment. This should have been a three book series, but the author drags it out across five. (SPOILERS) In the climactic final book, in the middle of the apocalypse, the hero and heroine hide out to have sex for an entire week. So much for worrying about the fact that the world's population has been decimated and continues to decline. As soon as the main characters finally have consensual sex, the hero completely changes to a love-professing idiot whose values have uncharacteristically shifted. Fortunately, this comes so late in the story that the reader doesn't have to suffer too long. The final battle doesn't resolve the larger issue that the world is going to hell, and the prior revelation of the beginning plot (who killed her sister) is eclipsed since revenge seems no longer to be a motivation. I can't help but feel that if the writer hadn't tried to drag out the story, she would have stayed more true to her original course and given a more satisfying conclusion. Still worth a read, but only just.
  • Gave me chills!

    5
    By K2th
    Amazing. Loved loved loved it! Thank goodness for one of my best friends for recommending it! I am so glad it was long book and she took her time unraveling the ending. I didn't feel cheated at the end as I did with other novels. Thoroughly enjoyed the entire Fever series. It's dark, sexy, and so much fun to read. Found myself laughing out loud a few times. I love fantasy books. This series added more excitement and twists that I couldn't put it down. Finished the series in a week! Yes, it was that good. Storyline was well-thoughout and original. Characters were well-developed and stick to you. Overall, a great read. I hate final books because I always want more in the end, but I am so ecstatic to learn that she's writing more in the Fever world! Can't wait for more Mac and Barrons ;)
  • Simply put...WOW!

    5
    By Linkitini
    I've read and re-read this book! It's awesome! The emotion and feeling that it makes you feel is fantastic. It's a wonderful explanation to everything that has gone on in the series and leaves me wanting more. It's just addictive!
  • I want more!!!

    5
    By Itidiot
    Moning did a fantastic job. I can't get enough of Jericho Barron's!