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Showing posts with label Rachel Caine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Caine. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Face Out (Rachel Caine)


Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve's castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected.
This is the 7th book of the Morganville Vampire series. Rachel Caine has done a good job keeping each of these novels interesting and unique.
I was happy to see that, at least in this story, you reap what you sow.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Carpe Corpus (Rachel Caine)

In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?
A good addition to the series.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Dead Girls' Dance (Rachel Caine)


Claire Danvers has her share of challenges -- like living among creatures of the night. On the upside, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend. Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls' Dance and -- surprise! --Claire and her equally outcast friend have been invited. When they find out why, all hell breaks loose, because this time both the living and the dead are ready to tear up the night.
A little better than the first.

Glass Houses (Rachel Caine)


Morganville is a small college town in the heart of Texas that has its share of quirky characters -- and some evil ones too. When student Claire Danvers moves off campus into one of Morganville's oldest houses, she finds that her roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

If I had to give this one a rating between 1 & 10, I would say about a 6 or 7. It's good enough that you want to keep reading and find out what happens but it definitely has the simplicity of a young adult book.