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High Voltage

by Karen Marie Moning

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·Fever #10·✓ Series Complete

Why Read This?

You'll experience a cathartic release of intense emotions and become obsessed with the complex, morally gray characters and their fraught romance.

Synopsis

There is no action without consequence… Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin. By day, she ensures the safety of those she rescues, by night she hunts evil, dispensing justice swiftly and without mercy, determined to give those she cares for the peace she has never known. There is no power without price… When the Faerie Queen used the dangerously powerful Song of Making to heal the world from the damage done by the Hoar Frost King, catastrophic magic seeped deep into the earth, giving rise to horrifying, unforeseen consequences–and now deadly enemies plot in the darkness, preparing to enslave the human race and unleash an ancient reign of hell on Earth. There is no future without sacrifice… With the lethal, immortal Ryodan at her side, armed with the epic Sword of Light, Dani once again battles to save the world but her past comes back to haunt her with a vengeance, demanding an unspeakable price for the power she needs to save the human race and no one—not even Ryodan who’d move the very stars for her—can save her this time…

At a Glance

4.30 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn
Energyhigh

Top Tropes

captive romancedark romanceforced proximityvillain gets the girlblood feud romance

Mood

darkintenseemotionalangstybrooding

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.30 ★

Page Count

496 pages

Published

2018

Primary Genre

Urban Fantasy

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Full Cast

Narrator

Ama Leigh

Narrator Count

Full Cast

Narration Style

Dual

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

Mood & Vibe

Mood

Writing Style

edgydarkemotionalatmosphericbrooding

Story Pacing

fast

Emotional Weight

heavy

Energy Required

high

Vibes

Dark, gritty urban fantasy with feral energy and brooding tension that feels like walking through a haunted Dublin alley at midnight.

Characters

FMC Archetype

survivorferal/unhingedmorally gray fmc

MMC Archetype

dark/tortured soulmorally gray mmcpossessive alpha

Relationship Dynamics

mutual piningtensionfated matesforbidden loveslow burn

Spice Details 🌶️

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Spice Level 3

Spice Style

intense / passionaterough / aggressive styleemotional / loving

Getting Steamy

hair pulling softpinning hands above headlifting carrying in bedmarking hickeyssize difference focusrough but consensualaftercare on pagesoft dom energycontrol in bedroom onlypower exchange soft

Bringing the Heat

rough/aggressive intimacybondage/restraintchoking/breath playhair pulling (hard)oral focussize differenceedging/denialbreeding/fertility themesexhibitionismvoyeurism
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World & Setting

World Type

urban fantasy

Primary Setting

big city / metropolisunderground / underworldwar front / rebellionprison / captivitycompetition / games

Fantasy Creatures

Reading Context

Emotional Payoff

Best Time of Year

autumn

When & Where to Read

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