Book 23 - Fever Book 2: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

Performed by Joyce Bean
Delacorte/Brilliance Audio
Dark Fantasy
Unabridged Audio Book
Rating: 4.5

NOTE: This series is progressive, each picking up where the other left off so it is impossible to avoid spoilers of preceding books. If you don’t like spoilers, do NOT read this review until you’ve finished Darkfever.

After MacKayla Lane went to Ireland to find the answers to her sister’s death, Mac found a new world she never knew existed. Mac may have defeated the Dark Lord who killed her sister, but she still has many enemies to face. Then there is the added fact that she has recently learned she is not who she thought she was and may have a whole new legacy to uphold.

With two equally disturbing men vying for her attention and her loyalty to their respective mission, Mac is learning Jericho Barrons has so many secrets of his won. Then there’s Seelie prince V’lane who just wants to seduce her. But the evil book, the Sinsar Dubh is still out there and until it is found and protected, there is constant fear of the nasty Unseelies or other baddies gaining control. But how can she retrieve the book when her sidhe-seeing abilities cause her great agony whenever it is close? Then there is the question of who is the mysterious old woman who keeps popping up in Mac’s life?

The adventure and death defying battles never quit in Karen Marie Moning’s dark fantasy Fever series. I am quite happy to see in Bloodfever that Mac has gained a little more skill and maturity as her story continues. I had a few moments I wanted to smack her for doing something foolish, but there were far fewer instances of this than there were in Darkfever. As she learns more about the Fae world in Dublin, she comes to realize how grave the situation is. She also begins to come into her abilities more fully, and discovers a few things about herself she never expected.

I have to admit though that many times I was sitting here thinking as I listened, just what the heck is Jericho Barrons? He was a mystery in Darkfever but here in Bloodfever he is so much more mysterious. He seems like one of the good guys, but is he really? I have a couple theories as to what he is and what his plans entail so I hope to find out before too long if my hunches are correct.

Once again Joyce Bean does a brilliant job of performing the story and I am so grateful I didn’t have to learn all those confusing words and how to say them! I’d be entirely lost if I had to begin to guess how to say half of them. Joyce Bean is one of my favorite audio book performers and Bloodfever cements her even more securely in my selected list of “I’d listen to them read the phone book” narrators.

© Kelley A. Hartsell, January 2008. All rights reserved.

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