Karen Marie Moning shares the first 27 pages of Iced!

Karen Marie Moning just likes to tease us! She has released the first 27 pages of Iced for us, ahead of the October 30 release date, and I’m so excited for this book! W00t!

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I can’t wait until October!

The Book Hookup

Today on Karen Marie Moning’s Facebook pagewas the cover reveal for her upcoming novel,ICED.

This is the spinoff from the fabulous FEVER series (yes, the one with JZB!) and centers on Dani O’Malley.

Iced will be published October 30, 2012

She added this teaser with the cover reveal 🙂 :

I figure the folks that are the most interesting get to go to heaven. I mean, if I was God, that’s who I’d want there with me. I also figure being eternally happy would be eternally boring so I try not to be too interesting, even though it’s hard for me. I’d rather be a superhero in hell than an angel in heaven. What the feck would I do all day if I wasn’t kicking demon ass?

Soooo, what do you think!?

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ICED: Teaser 1 (Contains spoilers from the Fever Series!)

So very excited about this! Click on The Book Hookup link to read the smexy snippet 🙂

The Book Hookup

If you were sad to see the last installment of the Fever Series Shadowfever come to an end, you’ll be thrilled with this news.  On her facebook page, author Karen Marie Moning has announced the release of the next book in the series…ICED.

ICED: A Dani O’Malley Novel
October 30, 2012
Book 1
Begins the morning after SHADOWFEVER ends (EEEEEEEP ~ Jag)

The book is not yet available for pre-order but follow us on twitter or subscribe to the blog and you’ll know when we know.

Now brace yourselves, here is the teaser from Iced:

by Karen Marie Moning  

Four nights he’s come to me, murmuring my name, making it an exquisite melody with which not even the divine orchestral choir of all the angels in heaven could compete. 

He chimes my name in the language of the Unseelie and…

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Shadowfever, by Karen Marie Moning

Format: Kindle Edition, 512 pages

Published: January 18, 2011

Publisher: Delacorte Press

 

Back cover blurb:

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.

Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.

In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.
Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?

From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

 

My review:

Amazing book. Amazing series. I loved this so much from go to whoa. Many of my suspicions turned out to be correct but some revelations were a complete surprise (the mark of a great writer, in my humble opinion). Ms Moning cleverly tied up almost all the loose ends and by concluding with “The End… for now” I have hope she may pick up some characters’ stories further down the track. I’d certainly like to find out more about the people who own the abbey, for example. And what happens to Christian and Dani.
As for Jericho, OMG *swoon* He was present more in this book (thank goodness) so there was more of him to love. Just the line “I was in Barrons’ bedroom” gave me chills in anticipation… GAH! I suspect I will be buying a “Barrons Books & Baubles” T-shirt from Ms Moning’s website now #unashamedfangirl.

 

My rating: Easy 5/5

Dreamfever, by Karen Marie Moning

Format: Kindle Edition, 400 pages

Published: August 18, 2009

Publisher: Delacorte Press

 

Back cover blurb:

In the New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest-and most erotically charged-adventure of her life.

 

My review:

This installment is pretty dark. The Fae have taken over Dublin – the world, actually – and Mac has been so abused she cannot function. Enter the lovely Jericho Barrons, and all becomes better. God, I love that man! The UST of the previous books is still not resolved properly, and I frequently want to give Mac a slap, but she’s getting there. She just has to trust him more.

 

As for the end, well, I knew. I knew a couple of books back. The clues were all there, although Ms Moning is the mistress of the red herring. (Trying not to give away spoilers here, but… OMG. How can she end a book there??) This review is not terribly coherent, but if you’ve read the book you know what I mean. I’m starting the final installment straight away.

 

My rating: 5/5

Faefever, by Karen Marie Moning

Format: Kindle Edition, 352 pages

Published: September 16, 2008

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Back cover blurb:

Mac’s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V’lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. 

As All Hallows Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worlds with devastating consequences.

My review:

If Mac’s definition of the name of the car is correct, then all I can say is “Oh, Countach!”. It’s hard to review this book without giving away spoilers, but by the end of this book the unthinkable has happened and Mac is in deep, deep trouble.

There is a definite advantage to reading these books after the series has concluded, as I know there ar etwo more books to come and have faith the disaster will be cleared up satisfactorily by the end. If I had read this a couple of years ago when it first came out, I would feel very bleak indeed. All the more fuel to keep reading, though, to find out how she will get her petunia out of  harm’s way.

My rating: 5/5. The UST isn’t resolved, but the fact the storyline is getting darker makes this a more interesting read. And V’lane is growing on me too. I’m still a Barrons girl, though.

Bloodfever, by Karen Marie Moning

Format: Kindle Edition, 320 pages

Published: October 16, 2007

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Back cover blurb:

I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who’d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe — seers, people, who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.

When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I’ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it…

MacKayla Lane’s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland’s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets.

In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh — a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V’lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious.

For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them…

My review:

Ugh. Can’t. Stop. Reading.

Honestly, I don’t have time to review this book – I have to get on and read the next one! The twists and turns don’t stop in this, the second book in the Fever series, and Mac is forced to do some pretty revolting things to get herself out of trouble. But, once again, Jericho saves her life… and the UST cranks up another notch. It’s funny how the death-by-sex Fae Prince V’Lane, who is apparently irresistible to all but (now) Mac, is one of the least attractive characters in the book. Now Jericho on the other hand… *fans self*

Honestly, gotta run. Faefever is all queued up on my Kindle waiting for me!

My rating: 4/5, again because the UST is KILLING me and she really has to believe Jericho is one of the good guys. He just has to be…

 

Darkfever, by Karen Marie Moning

Format: Kindle Edition, 382 pages

Published: October 31, 2006

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Back cover blurb:

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, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae…. 

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands…

My review:

Firstly, I would like to thank Sharon at Pixel of Ink – I won this Kindle ebook in a contest she was running a couple of weeks ago, and I am SO grateful to her for introducing me to this series.

A lot of my friends have been reading Ms Moning recently, and I was intrigued to find out the appeal. When I won the contest and the book arrived on my Kindle, I gave up on Stieg Larsson (again, sorry Stieg!) and got stuck in. Or should I say sucked in to the intriguing world of Mac Lane and the mysterious Jericho Barrons. I could not put this down, and have immediately ordered the rest in the five-book series.

Essentially the story is a murder mystery – who killed Mac’s sister, Alina? – but along the way we are introduced to the Fae and their demonic flunkies, a vampire, a mob boss, and a lot of people who meet a very sticky end on the streets of Dublin. Oddly, it all makes me want to go to Ireland and walk the same streets as Mac to see for myself.  By the end of this first book we’ve solved only a portion of the puzzle – we know who Alina’s mystery boyfriend was but we wonder if he was indeed the one who killed her.

And then there’s Jericho… *sigh*. The UST in this book is off the chart, and the massive urge to find out more about him compels me to read more. Just when you think you know who or what he is, it’s all thrown out the window. He has saved Mac’s life, so his actions speak volumes, and I like to think he is on the side of the good. I’d certainly be happy to have him on my side in a fight! Maybe just by my side…

My rating: 4/5. I’ve taken one cupcake off only because the UST is driving me crazy and Mac should trust Jericho more. Otherwise it would be a five-cupcake read.