The Fever Series - Book 2

Unlike the Inheritance Cycle books, the Fever Series books are quick, easy reads, so I will be posting a little more frequently now.  I just finished the second book entitled, Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning.  I have read another of Moning's book series (The Highlander Series) and am a little disappointed with her writing in this new series.  It seems somewhat childish compared to the other series' books.  This might  be because the character that is telling the story is a little immature and Moning is trying to portray that through her writing - at least I hope that is the reason and I hope that "Mac" grows up a bit soon!

Anyways, Bloodfever, book 2...this one starts out with Inspector O'Duffy coming to Mac at the book store with more questions, but this time they are about the "Dark Zones" that he has found on past maps.  Mac acts as if she doesn't know anything more than he is telling her and eventually he leaves.  Unfortunately for Inspector O'Duffy, he is found dead a couple of days later.

That night Mac wakes up knowing something is wrong.  She finds that all of the lights in the bookstore have been turned off and a window has been left open so that the Shades can get in - someone is trying to kill her!  She manages to turn on most of the lights with the help of a lot of flashlights, but as she gets to the main floor she trips and falls, loosing most of her flashlights in the process.  Luckily, V'lane (a Fae Prince) comes to her rescue and turns on the rest of the lights, but she must agree to spend one human hour with him at the time of his choosing as payment for his help.

Mac is troubled by another investigator when O'Duffy is found dead, this one is Inspector Jayne.  He brings Mac into the police station where he questions her for hours about O'Duffy's meeting with her on the day of his death and eventually has to let Mac go, since he has no real evidence against her, but warns her that he is going to be watching her.

A few days later, Mac meets another sidhe-seer named Dani who tells her that there is a sidhe-seer Council right there in Dublin who are trained to kill the Fae.  Mac discovers who their leader is and where their headquarters is located.  She goes to visit them and learns a little about their past, but is also asked to join them which she refuses to do until she knows more about them and the other people around her.

V'lane appears to Mac not long after this and tells her that it is time for their hour together.  He brings her to Fairy where he creates an illusion of her sister that she is able to spend the day with.  Unfortunately, when V'lane brings Mac back to Dublin she discovers that she was actually gone for an entire month because time passes differently in Fairy.  Barrons has been worried about her because he couldn't figure out where she was or if she was alive.

Throughout this book Mac keeps seeing a specter who basically looks like the Grim Reaper.  At the end of the book she is cornered by a bunch of Hunters and Unseelie when the specter shows up again.  This time the specter is able to grab her and it takes her to an underground part of Ireland called The Burren.  She discovers that her specter is actually Malluce (the vampire) and the he has taken her to torture her until he dies.  It comes down to an extreme battle between the two of them and Malluce beats Mac until she is almost dead - this is when Barrons makes an appearance.  He feeds Unseelie meat to Mac and she is able to survive and they escape after killing Malluce (for real) this time.

The book ends with Mac going to meet a guy she had run into awhile back, Christian MacKeltar.  While walking to meet him, she senses the Sinsar Dubh is very near and collapses on the street, but unlike the last time she came close to it she doesn't pass out.  She figures out this is because she ate the Unseelie and that part of her has changed.

This was a pretty exciting book and I am looking forward to the rest of the series - there are a lot of questions that need to be answered!!