Darkfever

Name: Darkfever
Author: Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning

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Why we recommend it

A girl who finds herself in Dublin hunting the thing that killed her sister, guided by a fae who is dangerous and using her. Moning writes the dark romantasy as slow discovery — the world is revealed incrementally, the morally grey guardian is withholding for reasons that compound, and the fever in the title is what happens when you can't stop even knowing the cost.

At a glance

Darkfever is a dark romantasy by Karen Marie Moning. With 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for dark romantasy (of the 648 dark romantasy books on Readark, 34% rate lower for darkness and 8% lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn and morally grey MC. It runs to 376 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Morally Grey MC Slow Burn

Book details

Pages: 376
Published: January 2006

Darkfever spice level

Darkfever is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate