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    Iced
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    Iced

    Written by Karen Marie Moning

    Narrated by Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross

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    Dani “Mega” O’Malley plays by her own set of rules—and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she’s one of the few humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities.

    Dani’s ex–best friend, MacKayla Lane, wants her dead, the terrifying Unseelie princes have put a price on her head, and Inspector Jayne, the head of the police force, is after her sword and will stop at nothing to get it. What’s more, people are being mysteriously frozen to death all over the city, encased on the spot in sub-zero, icy tableaux.

    When Dublin’s most seductive nightclub gets blanketed in hoarfrost, Dani finds herself at the mercy of Ryodan, the club’s ruthless, immortal owner. He needs her quick wit and exceptional skill to figure out what’s freezing Fae and humans dead in their tracks—and Ryodan will do anything to ensure her compliance.

    Dodging bullets, fangs, and fists, Dani must strike treacherous bargains and make desperate alliances to save her beloved Dublin—before everything and everyone in it gets iced.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781455817733
    Iced
    Author

    Karen Marie Moning

    Karen Marie Moning is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fever series, featuring MacKayla Lane, and the award-winning Highlander series. She has a bachelor’s degree in society and law from Purdue University.

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    • 5/5
      I was not sure how much I was going to like this book with it being narrated by Dani. I was not terribly fond of her in the Fever series – I did not hate her, I just did not love her. I was impressed, however, with how Moning wrote her character into this story. She is kind of a loner with only one other person who she trusts completely in (Now that Mac is out of the picture, anyway). Though Dani is only 14 in this book, her age is just a number. I do not believe she has ever been a kid, though she is a bit naive when it comes to Ryodan and Christian. She is a go-getter and takes the world by the balls. There is not much she is afraid of, and even when she does cross paths with fear she faces it head on. I love that we got to get to know Christian better in this book. I look forward to see where Moning takes his character. I also love that we got Ryodan. He was kind of an enigmatic character in the first five books of Fever, and even though we got a lot of him in Iced, he is even more mysterious now. There are things in the book I have to question (Joe's role, for example), which I have no doubt Moning will provide a suitably entertaining story for later in the series. I was so excited to find out there will be two more Dani books and then two more Fever books after that!
    • 2/5
      Not my usual genre choice. Since I have never read her books before I was at a disadvantage. Maybe I will try another one of her books, since so many others have given her rave reviews.
    • 4/5
      I liked the story but it needed more of Mac and Barrens in it. It was like they barely exist, especially at the end when Riodan had a bunch of his men to help with the issue at hand.

      I wasn’t a fan of the constant sexualization of Dani. That was a bit creepy reading about grown men fantasizing about her.
    • 1/5
      I found myself at an extreme disadvantage not having read any of the Fever series. I was lost from the first page and it didn't get any better. The stream of consciousness writing from the point of view of a manic, obnoxious megalomaniac 14 year old was too much for me. I didn't get past the first 50 page. Just from the little I read I can say this child needs psychiatric help or some serious discipline. The author's almost constant use of slang felt very force. I have had the series recommended to me by friends in the past. I think I will try to read the first book and then go from there.
    • 2/5
      I don’t really appreciate how the main character is 14 but all the men want her sexually/want to protect her so intensely. Feels really gross to me.
    • 3/5
      This is a continuation of the author’s “Fever” series, but told from the point of view of 14-year old Dani. This is a Dublin filled with Fae. Dani thinks of herself as a superhero with superspeed, superhearing, and super other things. She and a friend(?) are kind of “kidnapped” by a supernatural being (what kind… not sure, but must have been some kind of fae), Ryodan, and forced to sign a contract to work for him as he and Dani tried to figure out what was randomly icing over various locations and all the people in those locations, ultimately killing the humans. It’s been too many years since I read the Fever series, and I didn’t find that the author did much in the way of recap, or what she did do wasn’t enough to really help me remember much of what was going on or who was who. The new storyline in this one – the mystery of what was causing locations and people to be “iced” – I found interesting. I thought I liked Dani as a secondary character (from what I recall) in the other books, but I didn’t like her much in this one. And all those horny men after a 14-year old!? Ugh! I am still rating it ok for trying to figure out what was causing the ice and the monsters they fought in the story.
    • 5/5
      I really liked the story but the way the story was told was a little awkward for me. The writing style was a bit choppy. I also didn't like the chapter titles which were song lyrics. They didn't add to the story and so I felt they were unnecessary. All that being said, it was still a great book.
    • 2/5
      I wanted to like this book more than I did. I adore the Fever books, and like Dani O'Malley as a minor character in them. But here, taking the lead in a book of her own, she just didn't work for me. Being written in the first-person was a definite drawback, because I really don't need to know every single thing *teenaged* Dani is thinking. Though all of her "I'm Mega" stuff obviously covers up for her uncertainties, it also gets old reading it over and over again.
    • 2/5
      It's so strange that when I read this 7 years ago, I gave it 4.5 stars. Now I am DNF'ing this on the second read. One, Dani is just annoying me - there is a reason that I do not read kid's books, I just cannot relate to the protagonist. Two, even if I could leave aside the next-level creepines of the dudes sniffing around Dani's skirts, I just DESPISE love-triangle storylines. I can't believe that I made it past one of my major deal-breakers when I read it the first time: I put this down when Dani caught Ryo and Jo having sex. The whole thing is painful as fuck, twenty time worse than watching Barrons and Fiona. It's just depressing and sad, and I read urban fantasy / paranormal romance to escape. And while I like angst, I don't like it like this. In fact, I hate this. It's too much of an "other woman/cheating" thing for me. I can't forgive Ryo, and I suspect Dani ends up with him later in the series, so I'm done.

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      2011 review: Ok, so, I adored this, as I do everything in this series, even when it twists my heart. Objectively, I find the men sniffing around Dani problematic at best, but given that this series is all about dangerous and unhealthy relationships, I suppose it's par for the course. I find myself both dreading and eagerly anticipating how the plot surrounding her love life progresses. She's going to need to age a bit and I'm antsy to see what happens! What does it mean about me that I find the cruel and devious men in these books so fascinating? (4.5 stars)
    • 5/5
      Every book in this series just gets better! I'm so ready for the next book, I'm not good with patience! ;)
    • 4/5
      Iced by Karen Marie Moning (Audiobook)
      Narrators: Phil Gigante and Natalie Ross
      Series: Fever Book 6

      4 Stars - After reading the first five books in the fever series the first time, I was really looking forward to Iced, as I loved Dani. However, when I realized she was still only 14 years old in the book, I didn't know what to think… cause well... this is an adult romance book. I also waited till all the books were out, as I hate waiting for the next in a series with cliffhangers. So the pressure was on!
      I think Dani was written well, no totally creepy parts (some maybe could think so.. but nothing was taken too far, in my opinion.) I loved the pace, lots of action, and a bit of a mystery to solve…. sorta. There was a wee bit of a cliffhanger, and I am looking forward to reading the next book. I think the two narrators did a wonderful job. I quite enjoy Ryodan and I love Christian. Hoping I see more of them.
    • 2/5
      It was "OK" is all I can muster about this book. I definitely won't be moving on with the series.
    • 2/5
      Updated review: outside of the pedo vibes, I did enjoy this book. Altogether, though, I think I should have just stopped after the first five books. Knowing what I know now, though (see the Phil Gigante/Facebook defense, retraction, rabid fandom victim blaming)... this book grosses me out and it makes sense that I have never had a desire to re-read this, at all.

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      I just finished this -- and enjoyed it. To be honest, I was sort of half dreading this book, as I adored the Mac/Barrons Fever books, and wasn't sure if a continuation was needed or desirable. Also, Dani was never a character I particularly adored. But I was worried needlessly. KMM's writing is just something that speaks to me and that I find highly appealing. Like many others, something about the Mac and Barrons story just totally shredded me-- and she hasn't lost her mojo with Iced, as far as I am concerned.

      Unlike many other reviewers, I wasn't super dooper deeply creeped out by Dani thinking about sex - 14 year olds do that. Just definitely creeped out by older men lusting after HER. I found Dani to be capable and kick-ass, if naive. And, fact is, I have raised teenagers, and while they are woefully wrong in thinking that they are "totally" mature, they aren't even remotely as naive as Dani seems to be (I wasn't even as clueless as she is to innuendo- and I consider myself, in retrospect, to have been highly naive when I was 14). I might get blasted for this- but when I was 15, most of my friends were having sex. Not saying this was ok or that they knew what the hell they were doing. Nor am I saying they truly understood the potential emotional and physical ramifications, but they were, indeed, doing "it." I absolutely get that the men in this story are older (in Ryodan's case- infinitesimally older) and that is the difference, but I felt Dani was capable of taking care of herself. Regardless, a 14 year old is LITERALLY incapable of informed consent with men like Ryodan.

      While I enjoyed the story and was never bored or skimming, I didn't find myself all that invested emotionally. To be fair, though, the same could be said for me at the outset of the Fever series. It took evolution of the story to turn me into the sobbing heap I was by the end of the Mac/Barrons story. The only trepidation I feel about Dani's story is that I don't want another JZB--- I don't want to see KMM faux-replicate him in Ryodan. I want Ryodan to be different- to be his own character, and him and Dani to evolve differently (please as a mentor or father type relationship) in whatever relationship KMM intends for them. I hope a repeat of the Mac/Barrons storyline isn't the direction she is going, because Dancer could potentially be quite interesting. Looking forward to finding out where KMM will take this!
    • 3/5
      Dani is doing her Mega Superhero thing watching over what humans she can in Dublin, hiding from Mac, hanging with her brainy friend Dancer, and killing all the fae she can with her sword. Ryodan, the owner of Chester's night club, has taken in an interest in her. He forces her into his "employ" and sets her on the path of solving the mysterious "iced" places in Dublin. Meanwhile, our old, Druid friend Christian is almost all the way through his transformation into an Unseelie Prince, and he's also got designs on Dani.

      If you haven't read the five books in the "Fever" Series, this is all Greek to you. Read those 5 books before this one.It was just an okay book. Parts of it were kinda "creepy". Like this man's attraction, (even if he is several thousand years old), to a 14 year old girl. I really liked Karen Marie Moning's "Highlander" series that she wrote years ago. I have read all the "Fever" books, but they just aren't as good as her first efforts. This is the first book in her new series but it actually is a continuation of the "Fever" series just a different leading character and a different perspective. Really should get 2.5 stars
    • 5/5
      Another book that held me captive in the Fever world. I loved hearing things from Dani's perspective. I also found it intriguing to read things from Christian and Kat's point of view. I wish we could have seen the whole confrontation between Dani and Mac and I absolutely can not WAIT for the next book. The 9 are as mysterious and lovable as ever, even when you hate these guys you love them! This book was fantastic and I hope Moning keeps writing in this world!
    • 5/5
      I didn’t realize I missed Dublin and Dani as much as I did. Seriously, I was so happy to be taken back to this world. The thoughts in my head were even in an Irish accent. Seriously y’all, I may have problems. :P
      I always forget how young Dani really is. She has to deal with major ish, but she’s still just a baby. I do love that she stands up for herself, no matter how big and bad the person bullying her is. That brings me to Ryodan. I never realized how much he reminds me of Barrons, when we first met him. I mean seriously, dude is a D bag sometimes. I was so excited we get to see Christian again, but he’s totally not the same. He’d have ok moments, and then I’d want to knock the hell out of him. I love Dancer (not sure if his name is spelled right since I listened to this book.) He’s charismatic, and I think wold be a good match for Dani. He’s also incredibly intelligent.
      Iced is fast paced, and fun to listen to. Even in the darker moments, Dani has a way of bringing humor to the forefront. It’s also fun seeing Dani and Ryodan interact. I don’t think he’s met anyone that isn’t scared to push his buttons. We get a small peak at Mac & Barrons. I’m hoping we see a little more of them as the series progresses.
    • 5/5
      I waited for this book, 'needed' this book for so long I was afraid to start it once I had it in my hands. I had so many expectations. I was peppered with doubts after reading some of the reviews. I know better, we can't all love the same books, it's impossible. But I hesitated and set it aside while I keep reading the reviews. Finally, I got off my, sheep herding arse and read the book ! Baaa, no more. LOL
      I loved it, LOVED IT, it had all the beginnings of another edge of my seat series. I could see so many potential portals for her to jump into, the possibilities are amazing. The world has changed forever, none of the old rules stand. Life has to find a new path or extinguish.
      The new Fae nasties are pure wicked, killing machines. They are so well written I could even smell one of them. (ICK) There are two unrelenting killers , only one will be finished and one will take more that one of the major characters lives. It's really wonderfully graphically gross !
      Dani, the little red headed fire cracker is in no way a little girl. She is young in years, but aged in life lessons, her life has been brutal. She has grown up in a harsh ugly truth that horrifies the mother in me. Her past has hardened her, not blackened her heart. She cares for the ones around her, even when it's best not too. She understands the world she lives in. The Sex by Death Fae, the Unseelie, the Seelie, the beasts and their carnal desires, she knows of this part of her world. She needs to know this to survive. Her close 'friends' are not crossing the lines with her and she will not allow anyone to until she is ready. She is a character to cheer for, she is a survivor. I can't wait to see what she grows into.
      The men, macho self absorbed ego driven alpha males plus ! Okay not fair, Dancer is soft, smart, beta material with the brain of a genius. Ryodan and Christian seem focused of protecting Dani from each other and the world. Christian wants her for one reason and Ryodan wants her for ? Perhaps just to be his Robin. I am sure it will become more clear as the series develops.
      Short sell- Batman and Robin team up to fight Mr.Freeze.
      Cliffhanger ending, muhahahahha. At least it was not a brutal one, more of a soft cliffhanger.


      I can't wait for the next book !
    • 4/5
      The only reason I picked up Iced is to “suffer through it”, so I can finally get on reading Mac’s story, because, honestly, who cares about Dani? It turned out that a 14-year-old superhero’s mind is actually a very entertaining and interesting place, full of witty remarks, existential crises and surprisingly quotable thoughts.Dani is an astonishingly interesting, amusing, thought-provoking character whose voice is written beautifully, in my opinion. She is a kid that had to grow up fast, so she is street-smart, intelligent and wise beyond her years, and childish and naive all at the same time. Reading her point of view is very refreshing – she is a teen that is all businesslike, direct and demanding, and it may be funny at times, yet this is exactly how people her age behave – larger than life. She is also very observant.I cannot stress enough how enjoyable being in her head is. And how captivating the situations she gets herself into are. She says herself, that she has "the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under".I think Karen Marie Moning did a wonderful job distinguishing between points of view. There was never any doubt about who’s point of view you are reading, because they are all genuinely discernible. Dani, Christian, Kat sound completely different from each other, which is the point a lot of authors cannot qualitatively accomplish introducing different points of view.Plot-wise the story is very compelling. Other than the obvious “Who’s the bad guy icing Dubling”, there are also “What does Ryodan actually want with Dani?”, “Is Christian going to turn full-on evil?”; “Is Mac actually after Dani for killing her sister?”; “Why is everyone so enthralled with the girl?” etc.All in all, something I was going to “suffer through” turned out to be very “fecking” awesome, and I cannot wait to read Burned (Mac and Barrons are finally back! Yay!).
    • 4/5
      Oh boy. I never thought I'd say this but I LOVE DANI. Bless her heart.

      Full review to come!
    • 4/5
      This is the beginning of the Dani part of the fever world. I ADORED the fever series with Mac and Barrons. So, I have been super excited to get to read books that continue in the same world. Getting to hear things from Dani's perspective is neat. I do hope that in the next book there ends up being a couple years time jump though. Dani is currently only 14 years old and trying to incorporate the romance theory with Ryodan, Christian, and Dancer is a little at odds. Her voice and actions all coincide with her age, but the romance aspect seems a bit difficult to accept sometimes. I also hate that Jo and Ryodan have strung up a "romance". It really sucks for the way Ryodan is pitched with his feelings of Dani. If he truly wishes to be a part of her life until she's ready, then he should be with any of the other faceless girls and not someone close to Dani, and most definitely not striking up a "relationship" with someone she's close to. It seems forced and out of concept. I will obviously continue the series, but hope KMM looks to age Dani a bit so we can see her as a woman.
    • 4/5
      While I really did like this book, I had a hard time getting into it. Onced I got used to reading Dani specifically, I was hooked. Sometimes it was nagging at me the was she was talking. I get she is only 14 and oblivious to the obvious, but sometimes she came off as whiney. Hoping she mature somewhat in the next book. But luckily the book overall outweighed that for me. I really enjoyed the last half of the book. And that ending.... I'm itching for april 2104 to get here!! I am ready for Mac and JZB baby!! If you liked the fever series (come on...who wouldn't if you you've read them), then you will like ICED.
    • 3/5
      Well, I'm sort of fecking sick of the fecking voice of Dani. I just don't fecking see her as a fecking central character, and the verbal mannerisms are quite thick and fecking distracting (even though Karen Marie Moning claims she toned Dani's voice down). The love triangle patterns seem fecking familiar if you've read the first five books in the series (and who would ever read Iced without reading the first five books in the series?!) but with less vivid characters than Mac, Barrons and V'lane. I am going to be fecking generous and give this 3 fecking stars. Hoping that the next book will improve greatly in all fecking areas.
    • 2/5
      Being a huge fan of the Fever series it took me a surprising amount of time to finally get around to reading this. Why, you ask? Well, because I had been warned about the creepy pedophiles. Ryodan? Christian? Shame on both of you, you sick perverts. Iced possess the same ramped up sexual energy that we’ve all come to expect from the Fever series but there is that huge issue of Dani being FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. The things that came out of these guys mouths (and all the perverted thoughts too) that were directed towards her was DISGUSTING and she was so completely oblivious to it, you know, because she’s A CHILD. But it’s Karen Marie Moning so I had to read it. Plus, I’ve heard that the next book in the trilogy, Burned, is jumping ahead a few years so Dani will be 19, thank goodness.Minus the creepy pedo business, there’s the whole ‘Dani is beyond fucking annoying’ factor. But somehow I still managed to like her for the most part. I just would have liked her a hell of a lot more if she didn’t say feck so much. Or dude. Or maybe if she eased up on the exclamation points. Or maybe if she didn’t say shit like this:‘It’s the freakiest thing I’ve ever felt. Like it’s a sponge and I’m a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don’t just have square pants, everything about me is squarish because I’m part of a wall, then I’m me again and the wall kind of squirts me out on the other side in a completely white room.’Or this:‘I choke on the last marshmallow I’m trying to swallow whole. I kick up into fast-mo and try to fast-cough it out but it doesn’t work. Belatedly it occurs to me fast-mo might not have been brightest move. Friction and mucus expand the confection like a waterlogged tampon. It swells in my throat and shuts down my airway.’I mean SERIOUSLY? But regardless, Dani still managed to be a spunky character that you couldn’t help but like (except for that time when she mentioned having Nicki Minaj on her ipod. Dani. Tsk.) I’m expecting some maturity to go along with the jump in 5 years so I’m really quite excited for Burned.The most enjoyable aspect of the story was the mystery behind the eerie locations being covered in ice that are taking the lives of humans and fae alike. It’s engaging and thrilling. Plus, there are a few moments of sheer horror. Here’s just a glimpse:‘With insectlike appendages, she’s knitting their guts into the hem of her dress. As her bony legs click and clack together, the guts sway over the edge, shortening, inch by inch, smearing blood up the brick.’Knitting guts, yes, you read that right.Iced didn’t live up to the Fever series at all, but it’s still required reading for any Fever fans anyways. My low rating still comes with a recommendation because Burned is bound to be infinitely better just as long as the pedos don’t make an appearance again.
    • 2/5
      Ok, I am totally torn about how I feel about this book. I hated it at first. Like really disliked it. I couldn't believe that this novel series had a following. But I hadn't read any of the other books in the series. So, here is the end result: I purchased the first book in the Highlander series and am going to give the whole two series a go. Why? Because there were parts of the book that showed me what kind of author Moning could be, and I decided to give her a chance. Ok, now here is my review of Iced: Has this author ever met a 14 year old girl? I didn't not find Dani's "voice" convincing or compelling. In fact, it was like an adult trying to sound like a teenager trying to sound like an adult. The part of the book that are in someone else's voice and really nice. That is why I am giving her other books a chance.Because I found Dani so annoying and not like a real teenager, I couldn't get invested in the book until I had read more than 200 pages. Normally I would have already chucked this book, but I had agreed to write a review, so I kept on reading. In the end, I felt really interested to see how it all turned out. There are way too many "dudes" in this book. I say dude. I'm from California, and I have never heard it used so much! Especially in Ireland. I like the mystery in the book especially because I know it is a series and that the mystery parts will be addressed at some point. Basically, I hope Dani gets more believable. I found her to be the least believable character in the whole lot of characters (which includes some pretty crazy characters so I think that is saying a lot). Christian is the second hardest character to swallow. He just rubbed me the wrong way, and maybe that is because i hadn't read the other books. As I read the other books I will write reviews and maybe that will give it a better picture.Bottom line: Don't start with this book. Read the other books, and then maybe this book is just a stepping stone to better things in future novels. I really would like the relationships to be fleshed out. Honestly, the only one that even seemed to have any meaning was Ryodan and Jo. Other than that, the characters just seemed to have feelings with no build up to them.I received an advanced review copy of this book. It did not impact my review of the book.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars

      I was so sad when the final book from the Fever series came out a couple of years ago but then I heard that KMM was working on a new series that will be a sort of spin-off of the Fever books. Iced finally came out on October 30/31 (of course, I had it on a pre-order). Iced focuses on the young sidh-seer, Dani O’Malley and her “future” romantic interests: Ryodan, the tough talking-sexy-unkillable club owner, and Christian, the sexy college student-druid-turned-unseelie prince. As the release date approached there was much discussion about whether Iced was a Young Adult novel or not. I don’t understand that…anyone who has EVER read a KMM novel, knows that she writes for adults.

      Now, I’ve finished the book and am rating it a 3.5 out of 5. As a KMM fan, it pains me to do that…but to be honest, there were a few times near the middle of the book that I actually thought of putting it down! I was having a hard time with all of the different Unseelie popping up (for those of you unfamiliar with the Fever world that would be “bad fairies”) and each one being more strange than the next. It got kind of old and a little ridiculous. I also (believe it or not) got tired of all the off-hand mentioning of the excessive sex going on at Ryodan’s club. I’m not a complete prude…I have read the Highlander and Black Dagger Brotherhood series after all, but in Iced, it just seemed like worthless information. I don’t know, maybe I didn’t like it because I was trying real hard to like Ryodan but he just kept using women and there’s no honor in that (even though he does admit to being “honor less”).

      All of that aside, I am glad that I continued reading because by the time I got a little past half way through, the story started picking up with the storytelling and suspense that I am used to with KMM. By this point, I was back to being enthralled with KMM’s style of urban fantasy and so happy to have Iced in my hands. I thoroughly enjoyed Dani’s humor and loved poor crazy Christian. Everything suddenly came together in the last chapters, personalities finally made sense, and I found myself wanting more to the point that when I read the last line, I kept hitting my kindle screen trying to make the pages turn..just not believing that was the end of the book. I couldn’t believe that Miss KMM could be that cruel to leave us devoted readers hanging like she did….but guess what…she did!

      I did miss Mac and Barrons. They each had cameo roles in Iced but it just wasn’t enough. I’m looking forward to more Mac/Barrons in the next novel as well as more of Dani. I’m looking forward to seeing where KMM goes with this character.
    • 5/5
      So good, so worth the wait. Only problem is now I am left waiting for the next installment!

      Won't give any spoilers away other than to say, I am SOO glad I blew off work today to read through last night and this morning.

      KMM does it again. I loved how she gave us enough of a background on Dani to understand what drives her! We get glimpses of Mac & Barrons but its Dani's story. Lot of build up and innuendos about what is to come about as Dani matures, but its wonderful. I love her and Ryo, although there a couple of times I want to kill him! We see Kat develop as well, and see her inner struggles.

      Its a definitely added to my re-read pile but I couldn't put it down!
    • 5/5
      Loved it. It's a good continuation of the Fever series.
    • 5/5
      I love KMM! I can't wait for Burned!
    • 4/5
      Great reading. Buuuuut... I think I wanted more. Like an adult Dani for a start. I know it's the journey and all that, but it felt like filler.
    • 1/5
      A huge disappointment. I like Dani, but the romance just completely ruined it for me. Seeing two much older guys manipulating and competing for the love of a clueless 14 year old was absolutely disgusting. A terrible decision by the author that ruined a book that I otherwise would have enjoyed. I will not pick up the next one, and would have returned this book if I did not have a digital copy.