Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

Shadowfever (Fever, #5)

by Karen Marie Moning

“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.

Reviewed by Linda on

5 of 5 stars

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This book left me with a taste of "more-ish" eventhough it was excellent. A lot of things were resolved, but I really missed especially one scene. I would have loved to read about Mac talking to Dani and telling Dani she has been forgiven.
I hope Ms. Moning will revisit this series in the future! I want to know what Mac and Barrons will do next, I want to know if the fairy Queen and King will be reunited. And I just really don't want it to be over...
AndI totally loved it when Mac saw through Ro's / the beast's illusion, and killed Ro! Rowena seems to have been in it only for the power from the very beginning - there has to have been a reason why the Haven actually created a secret Haven on the outside in order to be able to hide stuff rom her!
And I also really want to sit in on the conversation between Mac and Tellie!

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