Proceed With Caution:
This book contains death, violence, gore, rape, dubious consent, and murder.
The Basics:
Dreamfever is the fourth book of the Fever series and picks up exactly where the third left off, so do yourself a favor and go read Faefever before continuing. Mac is still our narrator, but she is not the girl we once knew. Introduction by thirteen year old Dani!
My Thoughts:
Dreamfever starts right where Faefever left off: with Mac sandwiched between three (or was it four?) Unseelie princes. She has managed to get herself into the worst possible situation, and I couldn't get enough! That probably makes me a terrible person, but I was here for it. I actually really enjoyed those first several chapters with "savage" Mac. I know it's an awful situation, but I was invested 100%.
We finally get to see several new sides to Barrons in Dreamfever as he's Mac's knight in shining leather. He's oddly tender and caring (but definitely forceful) as he attempts to bring Mac back to herself. It was a nice change from his evasive and demanding former self, even if he was still doing it for selfish reasons. Or was he? I think his motivation goes deeper than that, since he seems to be in competition with V'lane over her. Although V'lane continues to prove himself over and over again. Or does he?
There is plenty of action and some major revelations regarding the Lord Master. Is he really the bad guy, or is he just another person tangled up in the mess the Fae have created? We definitely don't get any answers about anything, but we get some more misshapen pieces to the puzzle that is the Sinsar Subh and this so-called "prophecy." The mystery just keeps building, making this addition to the Fever series a non-stop page turner! I finished in less than a day this second time around.
Make sure you have Shadowfever on hand when reading this, because that is the steepest cliffhanger you will be left hanging from. It was the one thing that I did remember from reading this nearly nine years ago. I knew it was coming, but I still wasn't prepared for it.