This was on Karen Marie Moning's facebook page:
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“I make a new discovery that totally blows…dying is the easy part. It’s coming back to life that sucks.” ICED
The other day one of my friends was asking about the new book coming out. He’s a huge fan of the FEVER series, and hangs out at my FB page regularly so I was surprised to discover he had no idea what ICED was about, or where it fit into the overall FEVER story arc. I realized you could probably use some clarification, too.
ICED is the sixth book in the Fever series. The only difference is ICED is narrated by Dani, interspersed with various other first-person points of view. (One of those first person points of view is Christian MacKeltar.)
ICED opens up one week before Shadowfever ends, at the sidhe-seer’s abbey, the morning after the Cruce got imprisoned beneath it. You don’t miss a beat in the action I developed in the prior books.
Some of the characters you will see: Dani, Dancer, Ryodan, Christian, Lor, Jo, Kat, Cruce, Velvet, a glimpse or two of Mac & Barrons, and many others.
BURNED and FLAYED are books 7 & 8 in the Fever series. Again, told from Dani’s viewpoint, plus others. Books 9 & 10 will return to Mac’s point of view. Mostly. If you don’t read 6, 7 & 8, books 9 and 10 won’t make any sense.
Here are a few of the main questions I keep getting asked.
Q: How old is Dani in this series?
A: 14 when it starts. 17 when it ends.
Q: Ew. Teens can’t have sex!
A: Right. What world are you living in?
Q: Does she have sex at 14?
A: No.
Q: Is there sex in this trilogy?
A: Have you forgotten who's writing it?
Q: Is Dani’s voice the same as it was in the Fever books?
A: No. In the Fever books Dani was 5% of the story, so I made her voice colorful enough to stand out in an epic world. In ICED, her story is epic, so her voice is more natural, more her own. (This answers Othilia's question.)
Q: Do these books end on cliffhangers?
A: No. ICED gives a solid feel-good wrap.
Q: Do you love Dani’s story as much as Mac’s?
A: Absolutely, and I was astonished by that. I thought it was going to be much harder to leave Mac and Barrons than it was. I realized I hadn’t left them at all. I’d merely detoured down a different dark street in Dublin. Still looking up at the Old World façade of BB&B at night, with all the lights on, still seeing Barrons ‘(Bugatti in ICED) glide down the street, still watching Mac’s toss her hair across Chester’s dance floor. Just watching it through different eyes.
Stay tuned for an excerpt soon…
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That fourth question makes me laugh.
So.......
Judging from what I see up there, Iced is starting to sound like a glorified sexfest or something. LOL. (Shame on everyone for asking KMM those questions! Hehe. Okay, I was kind of curious but still... Control your hormones people!)
It probably won't be though 'cause I trust KMM and I trust that her stories will have plot and character development - even if they are urban fantasy and not profound literary fiction. (Year 12 English has turned me off anything that requires brain power. After the HSC, I'll probably go back to reading books that don't corrupt my brain but in the meantime....)
Even if it was a glorified sexfest, here's to hoping more than half of that stuff will be about Jericho Z. Barrons ;)
It's okay, you can say it: I have no shame. Someone really needs to give me a good series to read to make this waiting easier.
