The Morganville Vampires Volume 2 by Rachel Caine

MIDNIGHT ALLEY
Claire Danvers has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. But being under Amelie's protection doesn't offer much comfort when people start turning up dead, a talker resurfaces from Claire's past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons at his secluded home in Midnight Alley. To what end, Claire will soon discover - and it will give a terrifying new meaning to night school.

FEAST OF FOOLS
In Morganville, vampires and humans have learned to live in relative peace, but the tenuous good-neighbor policy is abruptly turned on its head with the arrival of Mr. Bishop. The ancient old-school vampire is bad to the bones, and what he wants from the town's living and dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball attended by vampires and their human dates that Claire realizes Bishop's plan - and the elaborately evil trap he's set for the warm-blooded souls of Morganville.

¿Qué decir? Es mi serie favorita de toda la vida, es de los únicos libros que me acuerdo casi todos los nombres, con los que puedo jugar bromas, la saga con la que me atrevo hacer incluso un post con un montón de referencias sin equivocarme mucho.

Me gusta que por fin tenemos a una nerd como protagonista y que no pierde ese encanto nerd.

Este es el inicio de mi saga favorita y amo este libro.

Even though I received this back in August for my birthday, I'm just starting it. Mainly because my whole attitude was “Uck. ANOTHER teen vampire book. I swear if I have to read another one of these loathesome, brainless, boring books, I'm going to ram a wooden stake in my eye.”

What I said to the gift-giver was “Oh! WOW! Thank you! I've really been wanting to read this one!”

My momma didn't raise no rude girl.

For the most part, anyway.

(Please don't blame her for my momentary lapses. She did her best.)

The gift-giver asked me last weekend if I read it and I guiltily admitted that I hadn't. Rashly I promised it would be next selection in the TBR pile. True to my promise, last night I picked it up and started reading. I was very pleasantly surprised. I haven't gotten far, but I like the characters, I like the premise, I like the voice, I like the writing. We'll see if “like” turns in to “lurve” once I get further in. Or we may decide to break up due to irreconcilable diffs. It remains to be seen.

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I'm done with Book 1, Glass Houses, and Book 2, The Dead Girls' Dance.

They were very BuffytVS-esque with a touch of Being Human, but that works for me. I am a huge Buffy and Being Human (BBC version) fan. Instead of Sunnydale On The Hellmouth, the setting is Morganville, Texas. The town would've been better named Vampireville, but that might have seemed a little obvious for its purpose.

I liked the characters right from the beginning. Claire is only sixteen, an advanced placement college student attending Morganville U. as a freshmeat... I mean, freshman. With her brainiac skills, she could've attended MIT or CalTech except for overprotective parents who wanted her to attend a college within driving distance of home.

If protecting their only daughter was their goal, count it as an epic fail. It seems the citizens of Morganville are always looking for new blood.

Literally.

Just label her a french fry, coat her in ketchup, and toss her into the middle of an Overeaters Anonymous Meeting.

It's only when she and her three housemates, who are townie natives and currently holding the top three slots on the Most Tasty list, bond together that they stand a chance against the forces at work in Morganville.

I ordered book three, Midnight Alley, on my Kindle today.

This was definitely a really quick, easy read. And that's no doubt due to Rachel Caine's lovely writing. Every sentence flowed so easily, hence quick and easy, and there was nothing that confused me. I adore the whole idea of Morgaville, and yet am a tad creeped out at the same time! Mainly the fact that the whole town is run by vampires, and everyone that lives there has to be ‘protected'. The whole deal with Michael and Glass House is, in my opinion, brilliant and felt completely believable.

Regarding the characters, I admit there are some that could have had a bit more depth, but no doubt that shall be explored in the following 11 books! I really liked Claire's character, the fact that she is bright (and has read Wuthering Heights) made me warm to her. But, I feel that she was really naive most of the time. Ok, I get that she was bound to get herself into danger living in a town full of vamps but it felt like at every possible turn, she was putting herself in deliberate danger for sometimes absolutely no reason, and having to rely on someone else to get her out of it. That's probably my only qualm with the book though, and I look forward to reading the others in the series.

Overall, a pretty damn good read :)