Bloodfever (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• MacKayla Lane: Former part time student who was working as a bartender. She's young, was blond, loves pink and music on her iPod. She was oblivious to hardship, believing her life perfect in her tiny town in Georgia until she finds out her sister was murdered in Dublin. In her quest to find her sister Alina's killer, MacKayla discovers they were both adopted and are sidh-seers. She's working with Barrons to locate a book referred to as the Sinsar Dubh.
• Jericho Barrons: Secretive & mysterious man that takes MacKayla in to help her find out what has happened to her sister, but only to help himself out. He is a dark, smart, knows more than he is willing to share, but teaches MacKayla more than she is ready for but desperately needs to survive. Owner of Barrons Books & Baubles
• Malluce: Born to lots of money and his parents had mysteriously died when he was 24 and left him sole heir to their fortune of several hundred million dollars. He presents himself as a vampire and is in collusion with the one known as the Lord Master.
• V'lane: Prince of the Tuatha De Danaan. and a "death by sex" Fae as Mac calls him. Member of the Seelie Queen's High Council
• Christian MacKeltar: Young man who works at the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College and knew Alina. He knows Mac is a Sidhe-seer.
• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: Fourteen year old Sidhe-seer who leads Mac to Rowena.
• Inspector Jayne: Garda Detective investigating a murder
• Derek O'Bannion: Rocky O'Bannion's brother. Rocky was killed by the Shades after MacKayla and Barrons stole the spear from his home and he came after them.
• Inspector Patrick O'Duffy: Garda detective assigned to Alina's murder investigation
• Jack Lane: MacKayla's father, a tax attorney in Ashford, Georgia who adopted her and her sister
• Rowena: Grand mistress of Sidhe-seers
• Malluce: Real name is John Johnston, born to lots of money and his parents had mysteriously died when he was 24 and left him sole heir to their fortune of several hundred million dollars. Fashions himself to be a vampire
• Ryodan: Barron's friend who is IFYCGM on Mac's phone
• Rainey Lane: Mac's mother
• Lord Master: Was Alina's lover and MacKayla suspects he murdered Alina, leader of the Unseelie army.

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• “When you lose someone you love abruptly, without warning, you dream of getting the chance to see them, just one more time, please God, one more time again.”

  Mac

• “Kahlil Gibran says "Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you." If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.”

  Mac

• “In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. He thinks you have the heart of a warrior. He believes in you. Believe in him.”

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• “One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”

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• It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.

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• Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

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• “Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

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• Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.

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• People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

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• You can’t go forward if you’re looking backward, Mac, Daddy always said. You run into walls that way.

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• When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: Are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

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• Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Dublin, Ireland
• Barrons Books & Baubles
• Ashford, Georgia

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• The Haven: the high council of sidhe seers. whose symbol is the mishappen 3 leaf clover is th ancient symbol of the sidhe seers, who are charged with the mission to see, serve, and protect mankind from the fae.
• Post Hast Inc. (PHI): a courier service that serves as a coverfor th sidhe seers coalition, It appears Rowena is in charge.

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• Amulet, The: Unseelie or Dark hallow created by the Unseelie King for his concubine. Fashioned of gold, silver, sapphires and onyx, the gilt "cage" of the amulet houses an enormous clear stone of unknown compostion. A person of epic will can use it to impact and reshape reality. The list of past owners is legendary, including Merlin, Boudica, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. Last purchased by a Welshman for 8 figures, at an illegal auction, it was all too briefly in my hands and is currently in the possession of the Lord Master. It requires some kind of tithe or binding to use it. I had the will: I couldn't figure out the way.
• Cauldron, The: Seelie or Light Hallow from which all Seelie eventurally drink to divest memory that has become burdensome. According to Barrons immortality has a price: eventual madness. When the Fae feel it approaching, they drink from The Cauldron and are "reborn" with no mmemory of a prior existence. The Fae have a record keeper that documents each Fae's many incarnations, but the exact location of this scribe is known to a seliect few and the whereabouts of the records to none but him. Is that what's wrong with the Unseelie they don't have a cauldron to drink from?
• Cruce: A Fae; unknown if Seelie or Unseelie. Many of the relics that are floating around out there. He cursed the Sifting Silvers . Unknown what the curse was.
• Cuff of Cruce: A gold and silver arm cuff set with blood red stones; an ancient Fae relic that supposedly permits the human wearing it "a shield of sorts against many Unseelie and other ... unsavory things" (this according to a death by sex Fae like you can actually trust one_):
• Dark Zone: An area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, run down neighborhood, its a death trap. (definition Mac)
• Death by sex Fae: (eg. V'lane) A fae that is so sexually "potent" a human dies from intercourse with it unless the fae protects the human from the full impact of its deadly eroticism (def. ongoing)
• Dolmen: A sgl chamber megalithic tomb constructed of two or more upright stones supporting aq large, flat, horizontal capstone. Domens are cmmon in Ireland, especially around the Burren and Connemara. The Lord Master used a dolmen in a ritual of dark magick to open a doorway between realms and bring Unseelie through.
• Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid resided over divine worhip, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and education of elite youth to their order. Druids were believed to be privy to the secrets of the gods, including issues pertaining to the maipulation of physical matter, space, and even time The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner. (Irish myths and legends) Addendum to original entry: I saw both Jericho Barrons and the Lord Master use the Druid power of Voice, a way of speaking with many voices that cannot be disobeyed. Significance?
• Fae: (fay) See also Tuatha De Danaan. Divided into two courts, the Seelie or Light Court, and the Unseelie or Dark Court. Both courts have different castes of Fae, with the four Royal Houses. The Queen and her chosen consort ruile the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark (Definition J.B.)
• Four Stones, The: Translucent Blue-black stones covered with raised rune-like lettering. The key to deciphering the ancent language and breaking the code of the Sinsar Dubh is hidden in these four mystical stones. An individual stone can be used to shed light on a small portion of the text, but only if the four are reassembled into one will the true text in its entirety be revealed (IRish myths and legends)
• glamour: illusion cast by the fae to camouflage their true appearance. The more powerful the fae, the more difficult it is to penetrate its disguise. The average human see only what the fae wants them to see, and is subtly repelled from bumping into or brushing against it by small perimter of spatioal distortion that is part of the fae glamour.
• Gray Man, The: Monstously ugly, leprous Unseelie that feeds by stealing beauty from human women. Threat assessment: can kill, but prefers to leave its victim hideously disfigured, and alive to suffer. Addendum: allegedly only one of its kind and Barrons and I killed it.
• Hallows: Eight ancient relics of immense power: four light and four dark. The Light Hallows are the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark are the mirror, the box, the amulet, and the book (Sinsar Dubh or Dark Book).
• Null: Sidhe-seer with the power to freeze a Fae with the touch of her hands. The higher and more powerful the caste of Fae, the shorter the length of time it stays frozen.
• OOP: Acronym for Object of Power, a Fae relic imbued with mystical properties.
• Pri-Ya: A human addicted to Fae sex.
• Royal Hunters: A mid-level caste of Unseelie. Militantly sentient, they resemble the classic depiction of the devil, with cloven hooves, horns, long satyr-like faces, leathery wings, fiery orange eyes, and tails. Seven to ten feet tall, they are capable of extraordinary speed on both hoof and wing. Primary function: sidhe-seer exterminators. Threat assessment: kills
• Rhino-Boys: Lower mid-level caste Unseelie thugs dispatched primarily as watchdogs for high-ranking Fae.
• Seelie: The "light" or "fairer" court of the Tuatha De Danaan governed by the Seelie Queen, Aoibheal.
• Shades: One of the lowest caste of the Unseelie. Sentient but barely. They hunger--they feed. They cannot bear direct light and hunt only at night. They steal life in the manner the Gray Man steals beauty, draining their victims with vampiric swiftness, leaving behind a pile of clothing and a husk of dehydrated human matter. Threat assessment: kills
• Sidhe-Seer (SHE-seer): A person Fae magic doesn't work on, capable of seeing past the illusions or "glamour" cast by the Fae to the true nature that lies beneath. Some can also see Tabh'rs, hidden portals between realms. Others can sense Seelie and Unseelie objects of power. Each sidhe-seer is different, with varying degrees of resistance to the Fae. Some are limited, some are advanced with multiple "special powers".
• Sifting: Fae method of locomtion, occurs at speed of thought.
• Sifting Silvers or Silvers: An elaborate maze of mirrors once used as the primary method of Fae travel between realms, until Cruce cast the forbidden curse into the silvered corridors. Now no Fae dares enter the Silvers.
• Sinsar Dubh (she-shu-DOO): A Dark Hallow belonging to the Tuatha De Danaan. Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliest of all magic within its encrypted pages. Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha De during the invasions written of in the pseudo-history Leabhar Gabhala, it was stolen along with the other Dark Hallows, and rumored to have found its way into the world of Man. Allegedly authored over a million years ago by the Dark King of the Unseelie.
• Spear of Luisne (a.k.a. Spear of Luin, Spear of Longinus, Spear of Destiny, the Flaming Spear): The spear used to pierce Jesus Christ's side at his crucifixion. Not of human origin; it is a Tuatha De Danaan Light Hallow, and one of the few items capable of killing a Fae--regardless of rank or power.
• Tabh'rs (TAH-vr): Fae doorways or portals between realms, often hidden in everyday human objects.
• Tuatha De Danaan or Tuatha De (TUA day dhanna or Tua DAY) (See Fae above): A highly advanced race that came to Earth from another world.
• Unseelie: The "dark" court of the Tuatha De Danaan. According to Tuatha De Danaan legend, the Unseelie have been confined for hundreds of thousands of years in an inescapable prison.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Darkfever, and followed by Faefever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 B58 2007
• Dewey: 813.6

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Some sexual situations and profanity

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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• Karen Marie Moning: Author's website

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