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 Someone recommended that I try Moning's books at some point last year when I first got back into reading again. I found myself unable to choose between the Highlander series and the Fever series, so in the end I bought the first book of both. I read the Highlander one first and it was something akin to watching a horrific car crash take place - I couldn't suspend my disbelief far enough to enjoy it, but I couldn't tear my eyes from it and I was left feeling frustrated with no wish to read any more of Moning's work. Unfortunately, I now expected Darkfever to let me down in the same way and I approached it as such, which was unfair of me. And boy, was I wrong 
 It took me two attempts to read this book. The first time I picked it up soon after reading Beyond the Highland Mists and I only made it to page 24 before I could not take the shallowness of pink-loving MacKayla Lane anymore. The second time I picked it up, I did not stop reading until I'd finished it. 
 Once the story gets going, it really is very good. Mac is shallow, but that just means that she's got lots of room to grow. I love the idea behind the plot: the Fae are pretty much invaders from outer space - they keep their good (Seelie) and bad (Unseelie) factions. The Unseelie have been stuck in a prison for millennia but now its walls are falling and the Unseelie are infiltrating human society at humanity's cost. Mac is one of a small number of people who can see the Fae for what they really are behind their human disguise and she is horrified by what they are and what they do. The different Fae do different things: there's one that steals beauty from its victims and I loved the one that kept making Mac remove her clothes in public without her being aware of her actions. 
 Mac alternately frustrated me with how shallow and material she is and amused me for the same reason. Despite myself, I found myself genuinely growing to like her character. 
 Definitely worth the read.