Faefever (2008) (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 Z. 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
• V'lane: Seelie Prince, death-by-sex Fae.
• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: 13 year old Sihde-Seer with super strength and super speed
• Derek O'Bannion: Rocky O'Bannion's brother
• Christian MacKeltar: Mysterious man that Mac met at Trinity's Language Department.
• Rowena: The Grand Mistress of the sidhe-seer organization.
• Inspector Jayne: A member of the Dublin Garde who is investigating the death of another Garde and who is suspicious of Mac.
• Inspector Jayne: Garda detective that is hounding Mac because he suspects she had something to do with Inspector O'Duffy's murder (detective assigned to Alina's investigation).

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• “You can’t change an unpleasant reality if you won’t acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you’re willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.”

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• The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

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• You can’t change an unpleasant reality if you won’t acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you’re willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

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• Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.

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• Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.

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• It’s not the hand you’re dealt that matters. It’s how you play the cards.

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• What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler’s hunger for political and spiritual dominion.”

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• It’s just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it’s time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

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• “A fine distinction. Irony, perfect definition: That for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want, once I possessed it. I would lose everything to gain nothing. I am not one for exercises in futility.”

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• hypnagogia, a state during which a person might think herself fully alert, but is actually actively engaged in dreaming. This is the time that a lot of people report a convulsive jerk, or a feeling of physically falling.

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• —if I do, I’ll lose hope, and hope’s all I’ve got. I learned something important tonight. I thought I was hunting the Book, and that would be the end of it. But now I know we’ve got to re-create what once was. We’ve got to find the five foretold by the Haven’s prophecy. The Sinsar Dubh alone isn’t enough. We need the stones and the book and the five.

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• Dublin, Ireland
• Barrons Books & Baubles

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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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• The Amulet: 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 auctionit wsas all too briefly in my hands and is currently in th epossession tof th eLord Master. It requires som ekind of tithe or binding to use it. I had the will: I couldn't figure out the way.
• The Cauldron: 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 theFae feelit approaching, they drink from The Cauldron and are "reborn" with no mmemory of a prior existence. The Fae ahve record keeper that documents each Fae's many incarnations, but th eexact location of this scribe is know 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; unknow if Seelie or Unseelie. Many of this rlics 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 are athat has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, run down neighalls, 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. ongong)
• Dolmen: A sgl chamber megalithic tomb constructed of twoormore upright stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal capstone. Domensarcmmon in Ireland, especially around th Burren and Connemara. The Lord Master used a domen in a ritual of dark magick to open a doorway between realms and bring Unseelie through.
• Druid: In preChristian 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 privyto the secrets of the gods, including issues pertainging 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 LordMaster use th Druid pwer of Voice, a way of speaking with manyvics tha cannot be desobeyed. 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 Huses occupyingeen and her chosen consort ruile the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark (Definition J.B.
• The Four Stones: Translucent Blue black sones covered with raised runelike lettering. The key to deciphering the ancent language and breaking th code of the Sinsar Dubh is hidden in these four mystical stones. An individual stone can beused to shed ligh on a small portion of the text, but only of the four are reassembled into one wll the true text in its entirety be revealed (IRish myths and legends)
• Glamour: illusion cast by thefae to camouflage their true appearance. The more powerful the fae, the more difficult it is to penetrate its disguise. The avega 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.
• Null: 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.
• Samhain: Halloween

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Bloodfever, and followed by Dreamfever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 F34 2008
• Dewey: 813.6

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Some sexual situations and profanity

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost

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• Karen Marie Moning: Author's website

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