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While I enjoy urban fantasy, I’m always aware that it’s a genre that will often lack a HEA and is sometimes written in first person, something I can find annoying. Faefever has both of those characteristics, and, though I found reading it occasionally frustrating, I was captivated.
MacKayla Lane is a young Georgia woman who travels to Dublin to find answers to her sister’s unsolved murder. While there, she discovers a world she wished she never knew existed, filled with light and dark Fae. MacKayla also discovers that she and her sister, natural sisters adopted by Americans, are sidhe-seer, or ones who can see – and kill – the Fae when no one else can. She also has another special gift in that she can sense the Sinsar Dubh, an evil book of dark magic needed in the quest to keep the human and Fae worlds separate.
As she seeks to track the book as it leaves a trail of death in its wake, she’s caught in the crosshairs of two very powerful men, neither of whom she can trust or decipher. First, there’s Jericho Barrons – the man who provides her with a place to live and teaches her strategies that keep her alive. Second, there’s V’lane, a Fae and Seelie Prince. He wants and needs the evil book and MacKayla is not sure what he’ll do to get it. There is also an attraction between the two and some incredible jealousy between the two men. However, the heroine is independent and calls on them only when she knows she’s in over her head.
The action of the story is compelling and unpredictable. Admittedly, I didn’t like the heroine at first because of the cocky, first person narration, but she began to grow on me. Though this is the third in this series, it is easily a stand-alone, especially since it includes a useful glossary in the back of the book. Readers should also know that if the standard HEA is required, there isn’t one here. As a matter of fact, I’m still not certain who is good or who will ultimately be the hero to the heroine. Also, in all fairness, I have to give a heads-up regarding a sex scene at the end of the story that made me extremely uncomfortable. I wouldn’t describe it as violent, even though it’s not consensual or with either of the two possible heroes and, since it ends the story, it left me angry.
Though I had problems with Faefever, I look forward to the next in this series since the momentum and unpredictability of the plot kept me intrigued. I just hope it comes to some form of happy conclusion soon.
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Grade: B
Book Type: Urban Fantasy Romance
Sensuality: Warm
Review Date: 13/12/08
Publication Date: 2008
Recent Comments …
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This sounds delightful! I’m grabbing it, thanks
excellent book: interesting, funny dialogs, deep understanding of each character, interesting secondary characters, and also sexy.
I don’t think anyone expects you to post UK prices – it’s just a shame that such a great sale…
I’m sorry about that. We don’t have any way to post British prices as an American based site.
I have several of her books on my TBR and after reading this am moving them up the pile.