Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Burned : a fever novel Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Not the version of Mac that we were left with after the 5th and what we thought was final book. You can absolutely tell that this version of Burned is not the original Burned that she had intended.
I especially love the scenes with Lor. Over all, KMM let her personal life along with the bloggers backlashing over Iced negatively impact her writing Burned. I hope all the people that bitched about Iced namely about Dani and her age got what they were looking for. There was absolutely nothing wrong with Iced to begin with. Forever a devoted fan! I am going to have to write the review later when I have thought about it a bit.
The rating might go up to a 3 but it probably won't. Rating will not be going up! Still extremely disappointed. If this is the book she wanted to write, then good for her for doing her own thing. It didn't work for me but it wasn't written for me. Anytime I don't like a book, the author should not take it personally!
What you should know that impacted my view of the story: 1: I was a fan of Dani. I liked her fire, will to live, and ability to live with her choices. That character is no longer there. I started out the series liking her but by Shadowfever she was one of the most annoying lead females in UF to me. It annoyed the heck out of me. Seriously the last quarter of the book drove me insane. Just UGH! In fact, if the next book is going to be told from anyone's POV let's just make it theirs.
In fact, they are a heck of a lot more interesting now. This is my biggest complaint! Seriously I kept thinking--oh this is going to lead somewherehmmmm nope. Even that end she usually is the queen of cliffhangers , if she hadn't put that there--I wouldn't have thought that character was gone. This was very much filler. Filler that took years to write? Just felt let down! Final Thought on the book: I really hope the next book is not such a mess.
If it is, I might just skim for things that say Lor and read! Really, the book was meant for fans that hated Dani and loved Mac.
If you are those fans then you will freaking love it. If you are not, then well grab a glass of wine and read all the Lor parts! They were fantastic! Phil and Natalie just are a rocking team. They are a fantastic duo and can run the gambit of character voices. Please don't throw things at meI just didn't like it. I loved Iced and couldn't wait for Burned to finally get released. I should have figured something was up when the release date was pushed by several agonizing months.
It was a huge let down not to get inside Dani's head again for this one. Even though I enjoyed the overall experience of listening to the book thanks to Phil and Natalie I could have left this one off the "must listen to" list.
Where have the Unseelie princesses been? Are there more? Why doesn't anyone know about them? I'm over Mac being invisible. I hope that resolves in the first chapter of the next book. Not Unseelie, not Seelie Okay I wasn't Ryo's fan, but I like him now. Though I still do not like the way he talk to people some times. What's going on with Cat?
I really like her. I have so many other questions but those are all I can think of! Burned has been delayed until January April Update: Freaking January??!!! But there is no official release date yet. View all 45 comments. Aug 20, June rated it it was ok. This was a book that inflamed fans from across the globe. No matter what you think of the material on display you need to give Moning kudos for inspiring a passionate response from everyone involved. I am trying to base my review on the material provided, not which character became the lead.
This is how I feel. Logical plotting This was a book that inflamed fans from across the globe. Logical plotting seems completely amiss. Moning asks you to not question rational choices and 'just go with it' at times. My biggest complaint is the overall series arc is moved about an inch forward.
Essentially nothing happens. The book feels designed to make fans fall in love with Ryodan rather than making a good quality product. Mac's character development felt pretty much nonexistent. And really it's not that surprising since she starts the book but a few months after the conclusion of the original fever series. I think the book would have read better 5 years into the future, I would have loved to glimpse how Barrons and her are interacting with Dublin post 5 years apocalypse.
And the storyline centering around Dani, it felt stale and boring, it feels like Pri-ya all over again. Pri-ya was probably one of the better literary devices to push Mac's character along and I do not want a water downed version of it in Dani's development. Its not fresh for Dani's character and it belittles the original concept. I thought Iced pushed Moning into the category of a good fiction writer not a writer whom is cemented into a preconceived gendre. I think there were many factors that shaped the outcome of Burned- from marketing, sales, fans, and even Moning maybe felt Mac was easier for her to write.
I don't know, but I think people should have applauded her efforts in Iced. Pushed her more to expand her potential rather than limiting her and pushing her backwards. Iced was a book that read well and the plot was pushed forward with character development and good storytelling. It felt fun and fresh.
Burned feels stagnant and redundant. View all 61 comments. My feelings are spewed all over the place in the comment thread, and don't open spoilers if you don't want to be spoiled, but I have to add this: Michelle made a comment on Erica's review that was a total epiphany for me.
She said: "for Moning who has always had so much secrecy behind the motive of her characters having everything Ryo and the other characters did spelled out felt like a slap in the face. I was livid over the plot device she used, but livid was a lit My feelings are spewed all over the place in the comment thread, and don't open spoilers if you don't want to be spoiled, but I have to add this: Michelle made a comment on Erica's review that was a total epiphany for me. I was livid over the plot device she used, but livid was a little extreme and I couldn't figure out what was really pissing me off so bad about that specific element.
I'm still pissed. Actually, you know what, my love of the past books is coloring my rating here. I'm so emotionally involved in this series that I don't even like to separate them like this, but my original 3. I'm livid and hurt over this goddamn book. So let down. I really hope that the people who screamed for Dani to be aged really fucking love this book because otherwise all that was accomplished was the ruination of a spectacular series.
View all 59 comments. After Iced I wondered where the author would go with the cliffhanger we were left with. The fight between good and evil continues. I missed them in Ice…. Just blown away what happens to Mac half way thru…. And Dani…….. And what do you know…. Dani now has multiple personalities.. And I loved seeing the MacKeltar highlanders again. The ending was totally and stunningly jaw-dropping…… what a hell of a cliffhanger!!!!
How long do I have to wait for the next Fever installment? View all 7 comments. Jan 23, Angela rated it it was ok Shelves: second-copy , paperbook , urban-fantasy , kindle , read. Edit: I found the screenshot of the original release from of The Alpha Alternative. Also - GR deleted part of my review after it was posted, so no more good stuff.
But since this was made canon in Burned , I guess that last paragraph is pointless. Which makes me rage beyond all levels of rage. Serious spoilers to come.
Don't click if you haven't read through Chapter 3 of Darkfever an Edit: I found the screenshot of the original release from of The Alpha Alternative. It's in Barrons' POV. Sex scene? Not so much. It's a rehash of the conversation that Barrons and Mac have at the Clarin House, with loads of Barrons internalizing. Then there's mention of an awesome 4 hours of sex, every-which-way you can imagine, but no details. Kind of boring, honestly. And then we're done. I was hoping for something a little closer to Book 4, Chapter That would have been epic.
Okay, so now onto my issues about changing the story here to suit this "bonus" scene. First, in the original version, Barrons says to KMM something along the lines of 'there. You're always wanting them. Seriously, what. He's a fucking asshole. If I met him in real life I would kick him in the balls, knee him in the face and run away. Fast and far. However, he's the asshole that I love in the books.
This scene Before, he'd steered Mac where he thought she needed to go, he'd done things for her protection without her permission, he'd goaded, and tested, and trained her. He wasn't particularly nice about it. But he never took her choices from her.
Fuck that. Problem Number 2: Details don't match up. The conversation couldn't even be kept the same. Seriously, KMM? You couldn't go back to Darkfever and ensure that you had them saying the same words to each other in the same order?
But that's not the worst of it - the worst is that at the end of the scene in Darkfever , Mac is bruised from his arms around her ribs and that's all she speaks when she mentions her injuries , but at the end of The Alpha Alternative , she's apparently bruised in other places because of how he grabs and holds onto her during their no-holds-barred sex marathon.
There's the fact that Barrons rips a button off her jeans something I'm sure she'd notice in her limited wardrobe, but it's never mentioned in Darkfever. Didn't happen. There's the fact that at the end of The Alpha Alternative , Mac is wrapped in a sheet when Barrons erases her memory and lets her remember only the conversation and threat A fun scene that was Barrons fucking with us - I could have gotten behind that.
A scene that was completely made up. But no, KMM wasn't happy with that. She had to go and make it 'real. It's manufactured drama.
What a load of bullshit. That's right, I'm calling bullshit. Now, looking back, I think this is the beginning of the downhill slide that became Iced and Burned. KMM stopped writing the story that she had planned out, started writing bullshit for the fans, and everything got all fucked up. Once upon a time she said that the Fever series came to her in one long stream, complete and ready to be told.
All she had to do was transcribe it. I believe it, because the first five books Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, and Shadowfever are masterful and there's not a single contradiction in them. Then we get to this, to Iced , to Burned and it all goes out the fucking window.
Nothing we knew is true anymore. I hope, with everything in me, that she manages to turn it around in Feverborn , though I'm not holding my breath. Merged review: See here and here for my pre-read thoughts took up a whole damn review section!
I ran out of room! January Initial Read: First things first, this cover. I hated it from the moment it was revealed. We'd gone from beauties like this: Beautiful. Each and every one of them. Then we get that monstrosity up there. It telegraphs sex. I guess that's pretty fitting because it's damn near all anyone in this book thinks about. That cover did not fill me with a great deal of hope, though.
Not that I had a whole lot of it to begin with. Iced made me rage. I won't get into it here, but you can check out my review. Then there was the whole testing of the bond between Mac and Barrons that's alluded to in the blurb. I went into this book with some serious reservations. On the other hand, this is Karen Marie Moning!
The author that blew me away in the original five books of the Fever series! I have faith! I had hope! I couldn't wait to see her make me eat my words of hate and irritation at Iced. Burned did not do that for me. While I didn't finish it wanting to throw it out the window, stomp on it, burn it, and then scatter the ashes, I also didn't finish with that beautiful feeling of having stepped from a world that amazed, having just listened to the most incredible story, told by a girl with verve, audacity, passion and brains.
I want to end this review on a positive note, I want to think positively about where the series is going in the future - so, I'm starting with the negatives.
It took me about 3 days to read this book, only reading a few hours a day, because I spent the entire time taking notes. In the end I have over fifteen pages of notes on this book, and a severe disappointment - but again, I have hope why, yes, I might be a masochistic optimist for the future of the series.
Instead of the consuming story I had hoped for, I was treated to pages of the author explaining everything that I, as a reader, was too dense to understand in Iced , sprinkled with a few truly great moments and teasers. Yes, I complained - a lot - about the adult, immortal men in Iced lusting over Dani, a year-old-girl and abusing her. Yes, I said, on more than one occasion, that if KMM wanted to include sex or innuendo in this series I wanted it to wait until Dani was older.
I don't think that's too much to ask. I was told by the author in interviews that I'd read the story wrong. That went over well.
Thing I had an issue with in Iced is contemplated, dissected, discussed and thought about. That's not even counting the moments where previous canon is being re-written. Things that were clearly stated in the previous six books were suddenly not the same. Facts are twisted. All of it telling me how wrong I was in my interpretation of the events that occurred. From multiple character points-of-view. There were meta-speeches in characters minds repeating the same words I've read KMM say in interviews.
I can't even say how much this pisses me off. I want to SEE that I was wrong, not hear it. I've been hearing you, KMM, say how wrong I was for the last couple of years.
Luckily, this is the only real rage-inducing thing I experienced while reading, and I'm pretty much over it. I get it. KMM took a lot of flack and answered a lot of questions about the choices she made in Iced. Pedophilia was brought up frequently, frequently enough for her to address it in a FAQ which has since been removed from her blog. That's bound to put anyone on the defensive. So I'm trying not to be too mad about this.
I just wish that she'd not felt the need to cram this stuff down my throat and let the story speak for itself. How do they come up with this stuff--hold parental powwows for brainstorming diametrically opposed ethics? You probably know, if you've read my Iced review, that Ryodan was my biggest problem in its pages.
Then there's the abuse: holding her without food or water for three days, because reasons ; slamming her face into a stone pillar, repeatedly ; breaking her finger I hated him. I hated everything about him. Prior to Iced I had kind of liked Ryodan. I didn't know enough to love or hate, but I was leaning towards like. Then all of that went down - and honestly that felt kind of out of character, too - and I'm not sure I'll ever like the bastard again. I can love an asshole - see Barrons; I can get down with manipulative - see Barrons again; I can handle secretive - hello?
Barrons still; but abusive and a pedo vibe? We all saw the woman she could become. In these pages we learn that everything we thought we knew Ryodan's not an abusive asshole - he didn't mean to break her finger, he forgot how fragile humans were; he didn't hold her for three days, chained in his basement, because he's a controlling freak - he did it for her own-fucking-good.
There wasn't a pedo-vibe to his interactions with her, he was a guardian angel, protecting her, being her pillar, holding the roof up while she re-laid her foundation. I'm not buying what you're selling, KMM. No matter how many different characters sit and extol Ryodan's virtues, realizing what a nice guy he is.
I find myself questioning everything I thought I knew about Ryodan. Running prior conversations through my mind, realizing the man I believed moderately intelligent and highly manipulative of others--to their own detriment and destruction--is in fact highly intelligent and enormously manipulative of others, but I've begun to suspect it's because he's trying to fix what he perceives as the things they want fixed but don't know how.
He sees the bird's-eye view and takes the hard, catalytic actions. Unsettling, disturbing to those of us that don't, makes it easy to call him bastard, heartless. But why would he bother? There are only two possibilities: either he wants whatever goal he will achieve by altering that person, or, unfathomable as it is, he cares about the world he pretends to scorn, and the people in it.
Now, maybe, just maybe, if I'd been shown that I was wrong about Ryodan, instead of having every character possible think about it, talk about it, and reflect on it, then I might have eaten my words. I still would have hated what he'd done, but I might have grown to like him again. There was one moment in the book where we were shown that Ryodan might be kinder than we've previously seen - his interaction with Jo - however, it's so heavy-handed, especially on top of all the virtue-extolling everyone else is doing, that it just made me roll my eyes.
Take away? Ryodan's not a bad guy. In fact, he's a saint. This is already getting long, so I'm just going to skip to what I feel like was the checklist for this book. Ryodan's an abuser and giving off strong pedo-vibes?
He's a nice guy! Here, let me tell you! Dani's too young? We can fix that. Into the Silvers, you go, my girl. We miss Mac! Well, she can be the narrator again. Are you fucking kidding me? Jericho Barrons, Mac's enigmatic protector, is a purveyor of books and antiquities and of course, is a major hunk. As Mac takes direction from Jericho, she must resist the sexy dangers of V'lane, a death-by-sex Fae, and learn about her true family of Irish sidhe-seers.
Moning's delectable Mac is breathlessly appealing, and the wild perils she must endure are peppered with endless conundrums. The results are addictively dark, erotic and even shocking. As All Hallow's Eve in Dublin approaches, the walls between the human world and Faery verge on collapse.
At the end, erotic shocks await Mac in Dublin's vast Dark Zone, setting up feverish—if wary—expectations for the next installment. Please click button to get burned book now.
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