The Morganville Vampires - Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

The wait is over. dig into the feast...

In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace. Student Claire Danvers has never been convinced, though especially with the arrival of Mr. Bishop, an ancient, old-school vampire who cares nothing about harmony. What he wants from the town's living and its dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball, attended by vampires and their human dates, that Claire realizes the elaborately evil trap he's set for Morganville.

This is the fourth book in The Morganville Vampire series. One of these days I really must read her adult series, but for now, I find these books enjoyable enough. My biggest problem with reviewing this series is that the books all run together. Really, it could just be one big book. This means that I run a big risk of spoilers. I also have to wait until January of next year to find out what happens next!

So, I went browsing, and I guess I haven't reviewed one of these books since the very first one... Way to be a slacker, huh? So, I guess as far as my blog says, I never read books two and three. The series centres around Claire Danvers. She is living in Morganville with three of her friends: Eve, Michael, and Shane. They have lived in the town the majority of their lives, but Claire only came to town to be a student and got swept up in what it means to live in Morganville.

While this is an enjoyable series, it will never been the best series going. I have no doubt that I will read it to its conclusion, but it is so typical young adult. I am starting to think that I am never going to really be a young adult. I never really liked the books for my age when I was a young adult, and trying to read them now that I am older doesn't always work the best for me either. I have enjoyed some that I have read, of course, and I will read more, but I think I would rather read one of my fantasy books.

Anyway, this is a good series and this book wasn't any worse or better than the books that came before it! I have no doubt that I will be buying the new book in the series in the New Year.

I was wrong. I reviewed book one and two of this series. I am just blind!

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Books Completed: 59
Completion Date: April 2007
Publication Year: 2006
Pages: 256
Owned Prior to 2007

From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas.

Just don't stay out after dark.

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero.

When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new 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.

I have heard a lot of interesting things about Rachel Caine throughout the blogsphere, but mostly for her Weather Warden series. While I own the first book in that series, I was drawn to read this young adult series first. Following the footsteps of the paranormal-type books that are currently very popular, it was an interesting debut for a new series. I was happy that I read it right around the time when the new book in the series came out because the ending annoyed me. Not that it was a bad, but because it left things without a conclusive ending.

Claire is an interesting character. She is a normal teen with problems of fitting in a very prevalent image to her character. Things have been very bad for her, though, because she has unintentionally found herself the enemy of the majority of the "cool" kids simply because she corrected one of them in their knowledge. This leads to her having to escape from the campus because she is in fear for her life. She ends up at the home of three outcasts that help her find her way in this strange town.

She goes from being the enemy of all to having people protecting her back and siding with her when trouble arises. She suddenly has friends that help her out and show her the secrets of the town that she has wound up going to university in. I look forward to seeing what happens next in this series. The vampires are interesting in this series, too.

4/5