Teaser Tuesday #4: Dreamfever (Fever #4) by Karen Marie Morning

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My current read is Dreamfever (Fever #4)  by Karen Marie Moning and my three lines are from page 5

"Ah, Mac," he says, and his laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, "one day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more." 

Dreamfever (Fever#4) by Karen Marie Moning

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? …

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Stacking The Shelves #3 #stackingtheshelves

Welcome to Stacking The Shelves! Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga Reviews and is a meme to share those books, both print and e-book, that have been added to your shelves in the last week/s.

Its been another good week for books with some quality titles arriving on my doorstep this week.  I haven't done as much reading as I would have hoped due to being back at work after having nearly 3 weeks off with a virus that just won't leave and literally no voice at all so I was cutting short my reading time due to falling asleep no matter how good the book.

Looking forward to getting back on track with my review reading this week.

Purchased - Print Books

Another good book mail week with a much awaited pre-order coming in along with the next two instalments of a series I am reading at the moment. I received book 3 at the beginning of the week, read it and immediately knew I needed to purchase and read book 4 as soon as humanly possibly.  All I can say is Holy Cliffhangers Batman!  Extremely excited about betrayals also as kelley Armstrong has always been one of my favourite authors and so I have been waiting for this release for a while :-)

Faefever (Fever #3) by Karen Marie Moning  Purchased Booktopia
Dreamfever (Fever #4) by Karen Marie Moning  Purchased Galaxy Bookshop

Betrayals (Cainsville #4( by Kelley Armstrong  Purchased Booktopia

 

 

Borrowed - Library

Just the one book from the library this week.  I have so many review reads coming up that I had to curb my wish to borrow more books ...at least for this week ;-P

Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1)

So what did you add to your shelves this week?

Tuesday Teaser #3 : Faefever (Fever #3) by Karen Marie Moning

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My current read is Faefever (Fever#3)  by Karen Marie Moning and my three lines are from page 5

Don't settle in your chair and relax. It's not just my world that's in trouble; it's your world, too. It's happening, right now, while you're sitting there, munching a snack, getting ready to immerse yourself in a fictional escape.

Faefever (Fever#3) by Karen Marie Moning

The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin’s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorcery—and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined. He calls me his Queen of the Night. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page 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, it corrupts anyone who touches it. 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.…

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Review: Darkfever (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning #fever

Title: Darkfever (Fever #1)

Author: Karen Marie Moning

Published: 28 August 2007
Publisher: Dell
Source: Book Depository
Reviewed: Sapphired Dragon
Rating: ****

 My Review:

This book and indeed this series came highly recommended to me so I was excited to finally get a chance to sit down and read it.  Stories about the Fae are always either hit or miss with me, I either love it or I hate it. And this one I loved!

I liked the pace of the story and I flew through it pretty easily and I liked Ms Moning idea of the Fae being incredibly dangerous even the "light' ones and it had a very Buffy the vampire slayer feel at times "the one sidhe-seer in all the world" and all that with the main character being a young blonde who doesn't take life too seriously till everything changes with her sister's murder.

That being said, I did like the main character Mac, for all that she spent the book describing how shallow she had once been, she still has a lot of family loyalty and strength.  I am eager to find out more about the mysterious Jericho Barrons, and V'lane and the part the Seelie are playing in all this.

As far as first books in a series go, this was definitely the kind of book that makes you want to continue on with the series, want to find out more about Mac Sidhe-seer abilities, find out more about the fae and what they have planned for the human world and find out who killed Mac's sister.  Though given that in the prologue, Mac tells us she is a Sidhe-seer, I did then find it a little frustrating to have to spent the better part of the first half of the book having Mac slowly find out and then more slowly accept that Hey yeah she is sidhe-seer despite all the denial. That small foible and the distracting habit of the author to randomly have a future mac flash back on the scene ( ie I don't know what i was thinking that day or if i had known then the danger I faced...) were probably the only two real problems i had with the book and why i am not giving the story a 5 star rating.

That being said however  I am already planning to buy book two later this week as well as reserving at the library in case i don't get a chance to make it to the book shop :-)
I give this book a very solid 4 stars

Sapphired Dragon xx

About The Book

Darkfever (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning

"My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly. My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there's not a sidhe-seer alive who's had a good day since then." When MacKayla's sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac's cel phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master 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...while at the same time, the ruthless V'lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: to 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 both worlds in their hands..

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Stacking the Shelves #1

Welcome to Stacking The Shelves! Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga Reviews and is a meme to share those books, both print and e-book, that have been added to your shelves in the last week/s.

Welcome to my first stacking the shelves on this blog : Sapphired Reads.  I started it to review more adult books than I usually feature on my more YA themed blog Realm of the Sapphired Dragon

In the last couple of weeks I have started a few new paranormal series so these are mostly what is featured in this week Stacking the shelves.  I also start a series reading and review challenge this week so these reviews will also appear here.

Have a great week!

 

 

 

Purchased - Print Books

It's been a good week for book mail this week and I have also made a couple of nice purchases in my local library sale

Purchased From Library sale:

Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #8) by Laurell K. Hamilton Biting Cold (Chicagoland Vampires #6) by Chloe Neill Remember When (In Death #17.5) by Nora Roberts

Other Purchases: 

Bay of Sighs (The Guardians Trilogy) by Nora Roberts  Purchased K-Mart

Third Grave Dead Ahead (Charley Davidson #3) by Darynda Jones  Purchased Galaxy Bookshop

Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson #2) by Darynda Jones  Purchased: Book Depository

Darkfever (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning  Purchased: Book Depository

 

 

Borrowed - Library

Quite a few books borrowed from the library this week.  Mostly to do with a couple of challenges i am participating in  in Goodreads at the moment.  One is the Wobble which is a team reading challenge run by Nothing But Reading Challenges with 5 different big events each with their set og events and reading challenges to complete along the way such as Battleship and we a currently in week 2 of a 3 week Olympics Games event. There is also the Super Series, another team challenge run by The Challenge Factory which is the challenge where teams roll a dice to move along a board and which ever number they land on need to read an review a book from a series with the same number as they landed on i.e. if you land on 7 you need to read book 7 in a series and review it within a week or if you land on a 12, you need to read and review  book 1 or book 2 or book 12.  I love team reading challenges as you get to meet new people and discover all sorts of awesome new books to read and add to your TBR as well as reading outside your comfort zone and discovering more books again :-)

Garden Spells (Waverley Family #1)

Blood Games (Chicagoland Vampires, #10)

Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires, #11)

Midnight Marked (Chicagoland Vampires, #12)

Marked in Flesh (The Others #4)

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

So what did you add to your shelves this week?