Angie
Proceed With Caution:
This book contains death, gore, violence, and mentions of rape and torture.
The Basics:
This is the eighth book of the Fever series, and yes you need to read the previous seven first. Our narrators are Mac, Christian, Papa Roach, Jada, Lor, and Aoibheal. It's mostly Mac and Jada though. It picks up immediately after the end of Burned.
My Thoughts:
Feverborn confirms my feeling that Burned was a lost opportunity when it came to Dani and Jada. Jada has more POV chapters this time and there's a lot more to her than we were lead to believe previously. She is a fascinating character and was completely wasted in the previous book. I would have much rather read about Dani being trapped in the Silvers and Jada training up sidhe-seers and fighting her way to Dublin than Mac's voyeuristic tendencies (although also interesting).
Speaking of interesting characters, Christian is really growing on me now that he has a coherent POV. He's no longer half-crazed from changing into an Unseelie prince and he's no longer being tortured. Now he just might be Mac and Ryodan's greatest ally. He kind of disappears though as Mac and Jada take over the majority of the narration. I'm hoping he becomes more important and gets more pages that actually add to the overall story.
Much like with the previous book, Feverborn keeps piling on more and more issues for Mac. This was another case of dead things not staying dead and I was actually pretty annoyed with it. It should have been emotional and shocking, but it was just another "again?!" moment. More questions, no answers, and I find that I don't care about the answer to this one. It felt like a forced trauma that can potentially have a happy ending. If this ever ends.
In the end, I liked parts of Feverborn a lot, but then a lot of things annoyed the heck out me. Especially that final chapter. It again ends with a "who cares?!" moment regarding a character that no one cares about, because we don't know them at all. And there's a cliffhanger regarding Mac which is quite interesting and was a long-time coming. I'm interested to see how she gets out of that one. Assuming this wasn't another red herring.