Shadowfever...spoiler warning :P

Shadowfever is the long-awaited conclusion to Karen Marie Moning's Fever series, following MacKayla Lane's search for her sister's killer and ultimately her place in the pseudo-apocalypse.  Moning's typical romance-with-fantasy-elements genre is definitely put on hold in this series - a story that is firmly in the world of Urban/Dark fantasy.  Shadowfever picks up where the previous book (Dreamfever) left off, where Mac's mysterious bestial protector has died and reverted back to some form - one that is apparently familiar to Mac and earth-shattering.

We follow her brief lapse of sanity to where she joins forces with Darroc, currently going by the humble title of Lord Master and to where she encounters the Book again and again.  The story eventually follows to where she discovers where she comes from precisely and where her strange "quiet place" within was born.  The story of the Unseelie King is clarified, Aoibheal's place in fae history and the mystery of Mac's fourth Unseelie Prince. 

After reading (and collecting) the first four books, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one.  And overall, the only way this book disappoints me is in that now I feel there's so much more the author can write about the new world that has come about...and now I can't wait to read about it.  Every plotline was neatly concluded, every mystery solved, every question answered.  Does that mean that the end of this book didn't leave me with more questions?  Not exactly.  While I now know what happened to Christian MacKeltar, what will he do now with his...affliction?  What about the rest of the MacKeltar clan?  What about Barrons' nine men? 

I can only hope Moning will see fit to answer these questions in later volumes.