The second Pajama Chat Readers discussion is going to feature Karen Marie Moning’s Shadowfever, which was released on January 18th. This series has been a fantastic ride with each novel ending in cliffhangers, making all of us eagerly awaiting the next one. Now that the series is ended, Larissa from Larissa’s Bookish Life, Angela from Dark Faerie Tales and I want to know your reactions. Did Barron’s secret surprise you? Are you happy with the way it ended? Was there something from the previous books that you just have to talk about?
If so, then please join the three of us on February 5th at 9pm EST at Talk Shoe Radio and let’s discuss it.
“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.
Warning: We will be focusing on the final novel of the series, so spoilers are going to happen. If you haven’t read Shadowfever yet, then go get a copy and read it. It’s fabulous!
Haven’t read the series yet? What are you waiting for?! Here are the books, in order:
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….
I used to be your average, everyday girl but all that changed one night in Dublin when I saw my first Fae, and got dragged into a world of deadly immortals and ancient secrets. . . .
In her fight to stay alive, MacKayla must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over the worlds of both the Fae and Man. Pursued by assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she can’t trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and powerful men: V’lane, the immortal Fae Prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man as irresistible as he is dangerous.
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.
He calls me his Queen of the Night. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him, too.
When MacKayla Lane receives a page torn from her dead sister’s journal, she is stunned by Alina’s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister’s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil that it corrupts anyone who touches it.
Mac’s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shapeshifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V’lane, a lethal Fae prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man of deadly secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul.
They may have stolen my past, but I’ll never let them take my future.
When the walls between Man and Fae come crashing down, freeing the insatiable, immortal Unseelie from their icy prison, MacKayla Lane is caught in a deadly trap. Captured by the Fae Lord Master, she is left with no memory of who or what she is: the only sidhe-seer alive who can track the Sinsar Dubh, a book of arcane black magic that holds the key to controlling both worlds.
Clawing her way back from oblivion is only the first step Mac must take down a perilous path, from the battle-filled streets of Dublin to the treacherous politics of an ancient, secret sect, through the tangled lies of men who claim to be her allies into the illusory world of the Fae themselves, where nothing is as it seems—and Mac is forced to face a soul-shattering truth.
Who do you trust when you can’t even trust yourself?
I’m almost done with SHADOWFEVER. In a word: epic.
Can’t believe the series is coming to a close…
<3,
-J
YAY! Im so looking forward to this one! Awesome! =D
This book wasn’t as good as I’d thought it’d be. We still have a lot to find out about Barrons like, who the mother of his son is and the woman he “loved above all others” – if I got that quote right from…Dreamfever. :P and the only way we’re gonna find out, if we ever find out will be from another perspective which I think totally kills it. Also, I don’t like the fact he was really in love with a previous woman before. Because Barron’s strikes me as the type of man who will only ever be truly in love with one woman. Another thing I didn’t like was that there didn’t seem to be enough Barrons and Mac time, I wasn’t sure at what point, they both became in love, because in this book, his ‘soft’ side just seemed a little too sudden, without any ease into his other self. The identity crisis seemed a bit long, but I must applaud KMM’s twists and turns, the concubine and Cruce and V’lane. It was really well thought out. The dialogue was very touching and memorable, but I didn’t like how she’d leave a cliff hanger at the end of the chapter and then at the beginning of the next one, it’d somehow go back into her past and I’d have trouble following. Am I the only one who feels this way? :(
Loved it!
Love KMM, I’ve read all her books and have fallen in love with all her alpha male characters, Adam and Jericho is all mine.
Shadowfever, had a lot of surprises and I could not put the book down. The ending was perfect. Now I have to re-read all KMM’s books to get my fix til her next book comes out. KMM please write faster.