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ice_of_dreams) wrote2008-10-20 11:47 pm
ice_of_dreams) wrote2008-10-20 11:47 pm
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[books] Fae Fever by Karen Marie Moning and Succubus Dreams by Rachelle Mead
Book 3 of the Fever series by Moning. *groans out loud* After waiting MONTHS and MONTHS for this book I end up with a cliff-hanger that wants me to bang my head against the wall. Not because it's bad, but rather, because it was too short! Argh. If I was the author I'd be happy with myself, it was a good way to end the third book and it had things that readers didn't expect. But Argh! Argh! Argh! As a reader I want to severely mutilate my copy in sheer anticipation and frustration for the next book. As always, I wanted to bang Mac's head along the wall with me because there are some things that you just don't do, even if you understand her motives all along. And yes the witty banter is back, and there was too scanty Barrons in this book and too much V'lane in my opinion, but that's just me.
I think most of my favorite scenes with Barrons and MacKayla involve the Voice training. In this book, I particularly enjoyed the Voice training after Barrons learned that Mac had given more info with V'lane than him, and after Voicing her, asking her where her loyalties lie, he'd called her Mac and told her relax. Afterwhich she'd asked, "Am I going to die?" Then, it devolved to a fight (including fists this time) and then he tells her that if she doesn't get answers from him, it doesn't mean she could go behind his back and go to V'lane, which prompts the entire cry rape from Mac, wherin stems one of the lines which will later be used in... Book 4, Rape isn't something you walk away from. You crawl.
There was also this conversation where Mac traded three actions for an action from Barrons. When she tricked him into agreeing to helping the MacKeltars reinforce the walls. (And after which I realized, there would be much mystery solved in the Fever world if you read the highlander world first, even if it's only Cain's ... the 7th book of the Highlanders, story).
Another favorite is when LM threatens MacKayla to take "what she prized most" and Barrons saw her reading it. Then she turned to him, and showed her pain. Barrons touched her face, then her brand, then told her to never show her pain to him again.
There was also this moment when the book was right in front of barrons, and he was leaning towards it about to take it, when Mac has the grand realization that she knew deep down that Barrons wasn't Evil. And then she hard shouted his name, and he had ABANDONED the book for her. Another scene I absolutely prize is the scene right after, when Barrons admits that he thought he would be the exception to the book.
Yet another good instance was when Barrons bought Mac a ticket for the US, and she had it refunded. She had called him up and then told him she was staying utnil it was safe, then promptly asked him when he was coming home.
Finally, Barrons was late for coming home one night when Mac was waiting and they had been mad at each other. Mac because he hadn't called, and Barrons because she expected him to call. Then they blew up at each other because of the birthday cake. Well mostly Barrons blew up suddenly because Mac said she needed a little fun. The next day, he gives her the keys to his car (one of his many... and it's a Ferrari) and offers her to stay with him in Scotland.
Faefever totally spoiled me from reading Succubus Dreams. [SPOILERS UP AHEAD] Good in its own right, just not better than the fever series. And as most books this month, apparently aims to do, Succubus Dreams also told me to rip its pages into little pieces. Again not because it was bad, but because of frustration. This time, not because of a humongous cliff-hanger, because the Georgina Kincaid Series doesn't deal in cliff-hangers, but rather, because the book, though told in first person is largely Georgina blind. From the onset, or rather, from book one, you have the sneaking suspicion that Seth is some sort of reincarnation of Georgina's husband, we don't know if humans that she cares for in the past have all been reincarnations of her husband that she has pushed away, but I'm 90% certain that Seth is. Unfortunately, because Georgina hasn't changed and hasn't learned from past mistakes, she ends up destroying her relationship. Even with all of the Carter advice. Honestly. Now I know that Georgina might still have a Seth in her future, and that some bad things must happen for her to change drastically her non-learning personality, but I am still this close to frustrated that all of my books ganged up on me to give me sad sad endings in my NEUROLOGY time when I needed cheerful happy endings.
I'm off to re-read the Fever series and the Gentry series before November four and Swallowing Darkness comes out. PLEASE, PLEASE tell me something good will come out of THAT book.
I think most of my favorite scenes with Barrons and MacKayla involve the Voice training. In this book, I particularly enjoyed the Voice training after Barrons learned that Mac had given more info with V'lane than him, and after Voicing her, asking her where her loyalties lie, he'd called her Mac and told her relax. Afterwhich she'd asked, "Am I going to die?" Then, it devolved to a fight (including fists this time) and then he tells her that if she doesn't get answers from him, it doesn't mean she could go behind his back and go to V'lane, which prompts the entire cry rape from Mac, wherin stems one of the lines which will later be used in... Book 4, Rape isn't something you walk away from. You crawl.
There was also this conversation where Mac traded three actions for an action from Barrons. When she tricked him into agreeing to helping the MacKeltars reinforce the walls. (And after which I realized, there would be much mystery solved in the Fever world if you read the highlander world first, even if it's only Cain's ... the 7th book of the Highlanders, story).
Another favorite is when LM threatens MacKayla to take "what she prized most" and Barrons saw her reading it. Then she turned to him, and showed her pain. Barrons touched her face, then her brand, then told her to never show her pain to him again.
There was also this moment when the book was right in front of barrons, and he was leaning towards it about to take it, when Mac has the grand realization that she knew deep down that Barrons wasn't Evil. And then she hard shouted his name, and he had ABANDONED the book for her. Another scene I absolutely prize is the scene right after, when Barrons admits that he thought he would be the exception to the book.
Yet another good instance was when Barrons bought Mac a ticket for the US, and she had it refunded. She had called him up and then told him she was staying utnil it was safe, then promptly asked him when he was coming home.
Finally, Barrons was late for coming home one night when Mac was waiting and they had been mad at each other. Mac because he hadn't called, and Barrons because she expected him to call. Then they blew up at each other because of the birthday cake. Well mostly Barrons blew up suddenly because Mac said she needed a little fun. The next day, he gives her the keys to his car (one of his many... and it's a Ferrari) and offers her to stay with him in Scotland.
Faefever totally spoiled me from reading Succubus Dreams. [SPOILERS UP AHEAD] Good in its own right, just not better than the fever series. And as most books this month, apparently aims to do, Succubus Dreams also told me to rip its pages into little pieces. Again not because it was bad, but because of frustration. This time, not because of a humongous cliff-hanger, because the Georgina Kincaid Series doesn't deal in cliff-hangers, but rather, because the book, though told in first person is largely Georgina blind. From the onset, or rather, from book one, you have the sneaking suspicion that Seth is some sort of reincarnation of Georgina's husband, we don't know if humans that she cares for in the past have all been reincarnations of her husband that she has pushed away, but I'm 90% certain that Seth is. Unfortunately, because Georgina hasn't changed and hasn't learned from past mistakes, she ends up destroying her relationship. Even with all of the Carter advice. Honestly. Now I know that Georgina might still have a Seth in her future, and that some bad things must happen for her to change drastically her non-learning personality, but I am still this close to frustrated that all of my books ganged up on me to give me sad sad endings in my NEUROLOGY time when I needed cheerful happy endings.
I'm off to re-read the Fever series and the Gentry series before November four and Swallowing Darkness comes out. PLEASE, PLEASE tell me something good will come out of THAT book.