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Fever: Book 1

Darkfever (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Karen Marie Moning (Author) (edit contributors)

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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,... read more

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MacKayla Lane has lost her sister to a evil, sinister supernatural force that plans to destroy the world as we know it.
She wants revenge!
She has found nothing but trouble since she walked off the plane in Ireland. Now she just wants answers and her beloved revenge.
She first... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

MacKayla Lane has lost her sister to a evil, sinister supernatural force that plans to destroy the world as we know it.
She wants revenge!
She has found nothing but trouble since she walked off the plane in Ireland. Now she just wants answers and her beloved revenge.
She first encounters Rowena when she is sitting in a bar afraid that she has been hallucinating due to the stress or something, she's not sure. But Rowena just judges her calls her names and insists that she is someone else by the name O'Connor and tells her she endangering them all and to go die somewhere else.
With this rebuff and really unbelievable vision that seemed like something out of a nightmare, she encounters V'lane a "death by sex" Fae. That is an otherworldly being that has existed since long before any of us have any record of anything in this world. In fact V'lane is the Prince of the Light or Seelie Court. His very presence is enough to cause her to strip in public with out words or even effort on his part.
She is so struck by this encounter she thinks that she has been dreaming or at least hopes she but its not until later when she meets Barrons that she learns of who she is and what her purpose and powers are for. She nearly looses her life in the process and few times looses her Southern dignity.
Before the book ends she has found knowledge (not yet enough) and power in herself ( also not yet enough). And she the all American and all southern Mac has found a new "Mac" a dark, pissed off, determined albeit still bewildered but learning "Mac".
She has managed to piss off a Mobster, a vampire, and the Seelie in less than two weeks. Not to mention the blood on her hands that she cant forget about.
Her father had come to Ireland to take her home and she with Barrons help managed to get him safely back on his way to her mother. And he seemed to be at peace with it.

Characters edit see section history

  • MacKayla Lane: 22 year old part time student working as a bartender. She's young, blonde, loves pink and music on her Ipod. She's oblivious to hardship, believing her life perfect in her tiny town in Georgia until she finds out her sister has been murdered in Dublin. She is devastated, but finding the killer consumes her once she hears a cryptic phone message from her sister moments before she was killed.
  • 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 dark, smart, knows more than he is willing to share, but teaches MacKayla more than she is ready for but desperately needs to survive.
  • Fiona: Barrons' assistant at the store. A 50's something woman with timeless elegance and beauty, but a bottomless pit full of jealousy and bitterness for Barrons.
  • McCabe: A rich Irishman with lots of power whom Barrons visited to get information about any of the artifacts.
  • 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.
  • V'lane: prince of the Tuatha De Danaan. and a "death by sex" Fae as Mac calls him. He is a Seelie Prince
  • Aoibheal: High Queen of the Seelie
  • Roark "Rocky" O'Bannion: another rich Irishman, Irish mobster actually...born poor champion boxer, suddenly became rich after the mob family O'Kierney had all been murdered.
  • Jack Lane: Mac's father.
  • Patrick O'Duffy: Detective for Dublin police who was working on Alina's case.
  • Alina Lane: Mac's sister , brutally murdered. Reason for which Mac travels to Ireland -- to seek justice for her death
  • Rainey Lane: Mac's mother.
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  • “"Okay, Barrons, it's time." "I am not helping you shave your legs," he said instantly. "Oh please. As if I'd let you. I meant for questions." "Oh."”
    Mac and Barrons
  • “I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
    Mac
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  • 2The Tuatha Dé Danaan were said to possess eight ancient relics of immense power: four Light and four Dark. The Light Hallows were the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark were the mirror, the box, the amulet, and the book (Sinsar Dubh).
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  • Distinguish yourself, my mom had told Alina and me, in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He’ll think he’s won a prize when he gets it, and he’ll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what’s hardest to get.
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

Ireland is our setting here with Georgia as only a preliminary backdrop. Dublin on the verge of a supernatural apocalypse. Both the Fae courts at war with each other and the Unseelie are mysteriously being set loose on the mortal world which is completely oblivious as their beliefs dont allow for the actual truths. Except for a select few who have been religeously or in MacKayla's case genetically forced (or blessed, depending on how you view it) to see the dark court past their glamour.

First Sentence edit see section history

My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue
Chapters One - Twenty-Five

Glossary edit see section history

  • Dark Zone: an area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, rundown neighborhood. Once night falls, it's a death-trap.
  • Death-By-Sex-Fae (e.g. 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.
  • Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid presided over divine worship, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and the education of elite youth to their order. Druids were believed to be privy to the secrets of the gods, including issues pertaining to the manipulation of physicl matter, space, and even time. The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner.
  • 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 occupying the highest caste of each. The Seelie Queen and her chosen consort rule the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark.
  • Four Stones, The: translucent blue-black stones covered with raised rune-like lettering. The key to deciphering the ancient 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 the a small portion of the text, but only if the four are reassembled into one will the true text in its entirety be revealed.
  • 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 sees only what the Fae wants them to see, and is subtly repelled from bumping into or brushing against it by a small perimeter of spatial distortion that is part of the Fae glamour.
  • Gray Man, The: monstrously 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.
  • 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).
  • Many-Mouthed Thing, The: repulsive Unseelie with myriad leechlike mouths, dozen of eyes and overdeveloped sex organs. Caste of Unseelie: unknown at this time. Threat assessment: unknown at this time but suspect kills in a manner rather not think about.
  • Null: a sidhe-seer with the power to freeze a Fae with the touch of his or 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 dispatch 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--the 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 sidh-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 s the primary method of Fae travel between realms, until Cruce cst 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.
  • An Garda Siochana: Guardians of the Peace (Police)
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Errata edit see section history

page 128 2nd Paragraph.
where Mac begins to talk and also on down where Barrons answers, there are no quotation marks where there should be several.

page 49 top of the page: Mac says she falls into a deep dreamless sleep and then in the next paragraph is awoke from a dream about herself playing tennis with Alina by Jericho knocking on the door.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 6 in Fever. (standard series)

Followed by Bloodfever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0385339151
Page Count: 320

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 D36 2006
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Some sexual situations and profanity

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