Book Review: Darkfever

Urban fantasy at its best.

If you can get past the cover art, which makes the book look deceptively like the type of romance novel people are embarrassed to read (at least in public), what you’ll find is the story of a naive young southern girl whose illusions about the world are suddenly shattered when her older sister is murdered on the streets of Dublin.

When the police file her sister’s case away to the unsolved department, Mack flies to Ireland to strong arm the police into reopening the case. But living in a rural southern town all her life didn’t prepare her for the things walking around the streets of Dublin — the things that only she and a handful of others can see. If she had known about them all her life, she might have known better than to stare, she might have realized she should pretend not to see them, so they would have no reason to hunt her. But she hadn’t known. And she ends up thrust into a world she isn’t prepared for, finding dubious allies with their own deadly agendas.

There are five books in this series, and they’re all available, so if you like to read books back to back, this is a good one to start. I’ll write a series review as soon as I read the last book (on order at the library), but for now, I highly recommend this to those who enjoy urban fantasy.

5/5 stars

Title: Darkfever

Author: Karen Marie Moning

Posted in Book Reviews, Fantasy.