Darkfever
Please welcome to the site New York Time Best Selling Author Karen Marie Moning, with the audiobook podcast of her first novel in her Fever series, Darkfever. This the very first joint effort between Bantam Dell and one of its authors to release the full version of a book for free as a podcast. We are stoked to be a part of this!
MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.
When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death-a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone-Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed-a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….
As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane-an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women-closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book-because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….
And special thanks to podiobook author Ken Wohlrob for helping coordinate and produce this for us. He rocks
August 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I love it! Nothing else to say…
August 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
An excellent listen!
I am not a very patient person, and didn’t realize (until I was hooked) this book isn’t complete on Podiobooks yet. It’s difficult to be patient! I keep listening to the same chapters over and over again, to see if I can pick up any clues of what will happen next. I wonder if they will ever mention who the reader/performer is - she’s really good.
I know I can go to the author’s website to get the whole book, but I’m trying to pace myself. I need to get some sleep, and not stay up all night to find out what happens next!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hee. I’m sorry to tell you this Bee Lady, but even when Darkfever is finished, the story isn’t. This particular series tends to end books right in the middle of something interesting and then make you wait for the next book.
I read Darkfever and Bloodfever in January in a single weekend and was frustrated to find out I was left hanging until Faefever comes out next month (which will probably end the same way). Couldn’t stop thinking about it for days.
Good writer, and the lady does know marketing.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Loving it so far!
August 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
A very crafty tale. I am most impressed with the accents as it brings the characters to life. I am very much looking forward to the rest of the novel and then I shall buy the books. Keep up the great work!!
September 9th, 2008 at 5:03 am
This is for the author. Now that you’ve podcast the first book in your Fever series, are you going to podcast the entire series eventually? If so, any idea of your time frame? Sorry, I’m hooked too, had to ask.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Great book, great character development, great writing, great story, a 5-star rating by anyone’s standards.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
It took me a few chapters to adjust to the narrator, but I found myself drawn into the story. There are enough unresolved issues to drive me to the bookstore for the next in the series, while not leaving me with that “cheated’ feeling I get when a book ends with too many loose ends.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:58 am
This was incredible boring and predictable. The sexist bullshit is just annoying ( you see sexism can go both ways). If you’d written this as a man about a man instead, you’d be pounded by the critics for discriminating women ( rightfully so )…and it’s tasteless the other way around as well.
But what got me to stop listening somewhere in chapter 13 is that it is actually very boring. It’s just heaps of clichés piled on top of each other. It’s like most media out of US of A…cut along one of the three four safe moulds there is.
It’s bound to have a happy ending, and somewhere along the story she’ll probably end up screwing this Jericho dude or some other bore she comes across
September 12th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I found this story to be well written, well read with good voice inflections, humorous (I live in Georgia, so can relate to the references to life in the South “bless your heart”) and addictive to listen to. I don’t know what the guy who left a review before me is used to listening to but he’s missed something because this is one of the best produced books I’ve listened to yet on Podiobooks. It’s a nice change from the blood and gore of some of the more popular books, while still enthralling enough to keep ones interest.
I admit that it may appeal more to women than to men, as it’s written from a woman’s point of view, and she’s a Southern woman at that. Which is a totally different class of woman than you would find on the West Coast of the U.S. (not meant to be derogatory towards either coast), so take that into consideration.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
There’s one in every crowd.
I enjoyed the opportunity to listen to this free book. Thanks!
October 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I am enjoying this book very much, thanks for sharing it here. Now this is a Southern accent! It is mild but very pleasant. I love that no one apologizes for it, totally unnecessary. I am crushed to learn that the books end without resolving! Oh well, another addict. Per’s hobby is being unpleasant, I’m totally amazed that he would admit to listening. If someone who claims to hate it makes it all the way to the end, then that’s more of a compliment than otherwise.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Darkfever is absolutly amazing. I was addicted to it from beggining to end and can’t wait for the next partt!