GLASS HOUSES. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town-a mysterious individual named Magnus. Claire couldnt say that, because the sight of his icy skin and blank eyes had thoroughly unnerved her. Morganville is a small town filled with unusual characters - when the sun goes down, the bad come out. Luckily she wasnt alone, Claire found her sanctuary in The Glass House, and a small band of free humans (who didnt take protection and orders from vampires) Michael Glass, the current young owner of the Glass House; Eve the friendly Goth girl, Shane the hothead guy with a painful past. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof. When a girl in the dorms threatens Claire's life, she resorts to answering an ad in the paper for a roommate in a four bedroom house, which is how she meets Eve Rosser, a goth girl a few years older than Claire who works at the local coffee shop in town. Hope you didnt get blood all over your neatly pressed uniform!, The deputy turned around and gave her a cold, hard stare. She has brown eyes as well as brown hair that is slightly curled and has red dyed tips. TPU, as it is known by the students, isn't a very good school as a whole, with most students dropping out after their first year, second year max. , Item Weight I have come to absolutely fall in love with these characters. Nevertheless I loved everything about the book. It was bad enough that she got on the wrong side of Monica, the meanest of the school's mean girls, but now she's got three new roommates, who all have secrets of their own. Theyre relationships arent very strong at the end of the last book, and the repercussions of not fixing that are played out perfectly. Shaneis one of the Glass House residents and is a Morganville native. I swear if she doesn't do that in this book Shes a tricky woman, that Rachel Caine! Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subjectis the vampires themselves, is a wholelot biggerandway more dangerousthan anyone suspected. Mr Bishop is an even better example. Those who have read my other reviews know I am annoyed by his character but it is taken to a whole new level in this one (even beyond the Bite Club annoyance). Still a fan, but I can see the weak points more clearly. I would recommend you skip this if you are over 21, it doesent really add much to the story and I found it quite childish. I like to see Claire get away but she realizes that she can't stay at MIT. But even if you can take the girl out of Morganville, you cant take Morganville out of the girland she ran headlong into a menacing new enemy who knew way too much about vampires. His skin had turned the color of pure white marble, and his blue eyes were open and dull. Very consistent world and characters (fully developed) from one book to another. Better not to feel anything right now. Lord of Misrule. A trailer for the series was published to YouTube by Geek & Sundry on October 22nd 2014.It continues to be announced on the writers website the fact that legal rights to a Morganville Vampire film and TV series and every other multi-media production happen to be sold to the persons behind the most popular series named Red Dwarf. Using the city's water system I envisioned a whole book about Claire, and missing all my favourite characters and the town of Morganville too! Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas. The little kid was always in some kind of trouble or opening her mouth when she shouldn't. THE. . Shane has always been one of my favorites. I cant put these books down if I tried, and the plot and characters are perfectly balanced as usual. Its got secrets. I'm really enjoying this series of books and don't want the story to end! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Eve didnt say anything. But Morganville isnt just some normal, isolated West Texas town. Val con los audiolibros, la app que ocupaba me fallo cuando iba en la mitad xd de todas formas igual mejor, porque me senta un tramposa por estar escuchando el audio adems que la traduccin es psima, es como si hubieran puesto el texto completo en Google translate y despus al pdf, as que entre poner atencin a lo que escuchaba, intentar darle sentido y a la vez hacer mis cosas, mi cabeza quedaba horrible al final del da. Morganville Vampires (Shane and Claire) 31,542 views Nov 30, 2014 326 Dislike Share MADD 186 subscribers Shane and Claire from the number 1 best selling series The Morganville Vampires by. In June 2013, a Kickstarter campaign was launched[7] to help adapt The Morganville Vampires into a web TV series with Amber Benson attached to star as Amelie, the founder of Morganville and Blake Calhoun signed on as director and producer. I am part way through the most recent one in the series and am very much caught up in the lives of the inhabitants of Morganville. Claire Danvers stumbles into a top secret that Morganville is possessed by the group of vampires. The cops hadnt had an easy time getting Shane into the other cruiser; theyd ended up handcuffing him and threatening a Tasering. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS GOD PLEASE SOMEONE JUST HELP ME, I CAN'T EVEN!!!!!!!!!! He has a fierce hate for vampires, but has slowly started to accept that not all vampires are bad, like Michael. When I first read the blurb of Fall of Night, I was a little bit concerned. In January 2010, she revealed that beginning with book 9, Ghost Town, novels in this series will first be released in hardback.[2]. In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Now, in this collection, you can venture down the towns strange streets, revisit all the tales youve come to love, and experience six new stories featuring your favorite Morganville residentsboth human and vampire, All website content Copyright 2023 Rachel Caine | Privacy Policy, Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress. But I guess I enjoy torture because I will be buying the rest of the books just to see if they get any better. Claire was just a really blah and boring main character. How can Ms Caine do this to us? Hes kept a death grip on the town ever since. Claire Danvers is trying to get through college, with the popular girl doing her best to make her life a living hell. I may try to pick it up again at a later date, but this series went down hill for me much the way the Southern Vampire series did from Charlene Harris. Story not that good, believable or written particularly well but the series seems to have "sucked" me in and everytime I finish one I have to onto the next (it looks like there are up to 15 of them! Can't wait. Nothing was making any sense, and Claire needed it to make sense so badly. I started this series after having it enthusiastically recommended by a friend. And not have requested #9. Most of the town's residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight. ), the volumes of morganville vampires 1-8 was very good. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Morganville as much as she doesn't want to accept it - is her home. Each book take up with events immediately following those of the previous book. After all, Police Chief Moses was their ally, their good and trusted friend. Definitely not words I normally use to describe the Rachel Caine reading experience. I have volume 2 on my shelf so I'll keep going if for no other reason than to see what happens to Shane and Claire. Claire held on to her and did all the sympathetic things right murmured that it would be okay, patted her on the back, hugged her. The only way to interpret what had just happened was that Hannah had freely and willingly joined the Daylight Foundation. To what end, Claire will find out. . Fall of Night was, as always, full of action and adventure, with enough risk to get your blood pumping. The character development is great; I love the other main characters, Michael, Shane, and Eve, and the remaining characters are just as well-crafted. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. I loved Claire, Myrnin, and Michael, but there has got to be more adjectives to describe Eve, the goth girl and Shane, the stud muffin. Soon after the fire, Shane and his parents leave Morganville so that they don't have to be reminded of Alyssa's death. There was a problem loading your book clubs. This was the place Eve Rosser worked until she found out her hippie boss was actually a powerful vampire who tried to turn Michael into a vampire. Michael, Shane,and Eve all grew up together in Morganville, so they have always been aware of the vampires that run the town. . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2019. She had a point. is that it deviates from all the common plot points that are becoming normal parts of so many YA books nowadays--there're no love triangles, a completely different take on vampires, and a dangerously mysterious town with a frightening hierarchy of species. Breathe. It wasnt so much what she was saying as the fact that her voice was steady and calm, a lifeline in a tossing ocean of chaos. Claire has her share of challenges. When she reached into the crappy, beat-up washing machine, she found nothing but the wet slick sides of the drum, andlike a bad jokethe worst pair of underwear she owned, plus one sock. Great books, Hooked on these for quite some time.. Morganville is additionally home to an abnormally large numbers of second-hand thrift shops. . Plunge into this fantastic series and prepare to be hooked (Entertainment Weekly). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2015. He looked deadest of them all. Its got secrets. The heroine Claire was a very smart 16 years old girl leaving home to study in an university next to Morganville, only to find herself the easy target of school bullies and worse, she was also being dragged into the troubles between vampires and humans in town. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls Dance, hell is really going to break loose. It was pretty and a little mysterious and dark and I knew it obviously had something to do with vampires. Michael is torn up and Claire is dealing with strange vivid dreams. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly newsor worse. I like new stuff. As he said "I'm half-alive, Claire. ATTENTION VAMPIRE LOVERS: Keep in mind that in this series vampires are no good! Maybe due to the over-exaggerated hype. In June 2013, a Kick- starter campaign was launched and introduced to assist adapt The Morganville Vampires series into a world wide web TV series along with Amber Benson attached with star as Amelie, the creator of Morganville and Blake Calhoun agreed upon on as producer and director and . But theyll have Claires back when the towns deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Claire and Shane both befriend two Cambridge locals who work with Professor Anderson, and at the bar where Shane gets a job as busboy. Next to him, Dr. Anderson slumped against the window as though she didnt care whose prisoner she was anymore. . But Bishop isnt the only threat. But the mean girls are bad 100% of the time. I have to be honestI didn't like this nearly as much as I had hoped I would. Definitely the first book (Glass House) is great, no complaints there. I am over it. Hell be fine. [3], Several of the novels have made the New York Times bestseller list. . She sat back as the ambulance doors slammed shut and one after the other the big vehicles pulled away onto the two-lane blacktop heading toward downtown Morganvilleif Morganville had anything that could be described as a downtown. When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to, Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. The book started out following just Claire, ad eventually the rest of the original characters came in, including some new ones. one of the first books I ever picked up and still one of my favourite's to this day ! Wow. But this book was really really really and I mean really lame. Rated T for one swear word. Shanes coming with us at least. 14 14. By day, Morganville, Texas, is just a typical college town. Claire knew why theyd separated her from Shane, and she knew that Eve needed her right now, but she wanted desperately to be with him and to ask all the questions burning in her mind. : That's why they don't want us, Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer's Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. I WAS BUT AFTER I READ THE OTHERS I JUST DIDN'T FEEL IT LIKE THE OTHERS. But if she got angry, she would also have to let in everything else, all the other emotions that bubbled and threatened inside her. . In Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows - one that will spill out into the bright light of day. Are you serious? Daylighters, Midnight Bites. Lymphoma Action As Morganville spirals into chaos, everyone must choose sides. Now Claire's returning home with her housemates (Eve, Michael, and Shane) and her allies (her bipolar mad scientist boss, Myrnin; Amelie's ex-second-in-command, Oliver; Claire's new vampire friend, Jesse) and Dr. Anderson, a captive scientist who was once a Morganville native, now turned traitor. Reread years later after the first time discovering these books. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire . I hope they get better or I may have to abandon the series, which I absolutely hate doing. Most of the towns residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight. The introduction on the Daylighters and the changing town. I just want to thank everyone for visiting the site. And this could have been a great story if it wasn't in 3rd person pov. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Honestly, Claire for such a supposedly smart character how are you blind to his behaviour? Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Making a Killing: A Fort Worth author turns a mythical, bloodsucking Texas town into big-time success", "Rachel Caine: Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book One)", "Third name is the charm for woman who was leery of being author", Children and Young Adult Literature portal, The Morganville Vampires (book series) website, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Morganville_Vampires&oldid=1140758776, Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from December 2022, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" in, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 16:59. Didnt do any good, because the seat was reinforced with a steel plate, but she probably felt better for doing it. The first book was torture really but I didn't want to give up too quickly so I stuck with it to read the 2nd book which was in my opinion better than the 1st but still not mind blowing like I was told it would be. A well done vampire series. These books are addictive. laire is described as being small and fragile, alsoyoung-looking, with an intelligent face and trademark smile. What does that mean? Having graduated high school very early due to her remarkable intelligence and affinity for all things science, Claire was forced to attend by her parents, who did not want her to attend a big university so young. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell. Caine has a writing style that just draws you in; the mystery, unexpected twists, and gritty action are just added bonuses. They were sitting in the backseat, behind steel mesh, and the doors wouldnt open from the inside. I LOVE THESE BOOKS. Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires Book Seven - Rachel Caine 2011-01-27 Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. Everything is not what ti seems which it the way of the world. But Bishop is not the only threat. I was convinced I wasn't going to like these. Theyd been heading back to Morganville to warn Amelie about several things, not the least of which was the deadly growth of an anti-vampire organization called the Daylight Foundationand the fact that one of Amelies most trusted agents, Dr. Irene Anderson (once of Morganville), had joined the other side. Stop, she whispered fiercely in her best friends ear. Soon after the fire, Shane and his parents leave Morganville so that they don't have to be reminded of Alyssa's death. The wait is finished and digs into the banquet. The cruiser was made like a taxi, but it most definitely wasnt one since it took you only where you didnt want to go. Morgan? Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. I enjoyed this second book The Dead Girl's Dance. On July 26, 2013, Rachel announced that the scripts for the first season were completed. . Regardless, hof his time protecting Claire, Michael and Eve. After some controversy concerning her age and the dangers she could face in Morganville, Claire is allowed to stay by Michael, the 18 year old owner of the house and his two roommates, Shane and Eve. So, vampires, action, coming of age, romance, steampunk elements -all in one series. Claire identified. The cops had first separated out the humansClaire, Eve, and Claires boyfriend, Shane, plus the prisoner, Dr. Anderson. You don't call me that. In a town where its not safe to be out after dark, student Claire Danvers and her friends have had their fair share of thrills. I'm looking forward to the third book. Please try again. NOT SO CRAZY ABOUT THE FIRST ONE THOUGH. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire Ameliethe town founderhas been infected by the master draugs bite. While I enjoyed this one. Eve introduces Claire to the two other boys who live in the house, Shane Collins and Michael Glass. Answer, They just make it work even if there is some Bloodshed. She is finally at MIT her dream realized. 4.5 to 5 stars! The Morganville Vampires Series is a series of young adult novels written by Rachel Caine. In Feast of Fools, Myrnin dresses her as Harlequin of Commedia dell'arte. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. On July 26, 2013, Rachel declared that the script for the first season was finished. Fall of Night is the 14th book in the Morganville Vampire series by author Rachel Caine. the vampire computer holding Morganville together, and to cure the disease threatening to wipe out the former, dealing with vampires trying to kill her on a regular basis, Administrivia/Pages Needing Example Context, Administrivia/Pages Needing an Entry Pimp, Myrnin, in spite of his apparent age. Claire never thought she'd get to leave Morganville, but she can't pass up the chance to finally attend her dream school, MIT. Unlike the new Revivalist series, which seems a little stilted and awkward, these just flow. Then arrives Bishop, the master vampire who intends to eradicate all order, restore the forces of the evil lifeless, and let mayhem rule. 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