REVIEW (dead girls dance)

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Bad news, girls: they’re dead.

      The Dead Girl’s Dance

 

    Prod dets

Morganville Vampires series, book 2

Pub: 2007, (razor bill) Penguin Group

Author: Rachel Caine

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 380 pp w/ 13 chapters

Age Range: YA

                Synopsis

Claire Danvers has had her share of challenges – like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm and, above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with blood-sucking fiends. On the plus side, so far Claire and her friends have managed to survive getting on the wrong side of some Morganville VIPs...Vampire Important Persons. But their temporary peace is in danger of collapsing, thanks to the arrival of her new boyfriend’s scary father and his vampire-fighting supporters.

      my Thoughts (review)

We come back in this book with Michael dead and the girls sobbing so hard that Shane’s dad wants them shut up.

So Shane’s dad is in town and he’s hell bent of killing as many vampires as he can while he’s here. Problem, his son and there friends are caught up in the middle of it all, not that he care at all. The story is pretty much Claire and Eve working there little hearts out while they try and find a way to save Shane. Michael hates himself because he can’t leave the house and, well, Shane’s locked in a cage so it seems he’s had better days.

They work it all out, obviously or where would the series be, while Claire is attacked again by psycho bitch and Eve is having family problem of her own.

The cool thing is that we learn about Shane, about why he came back, and more to the point why he’s dad is here to kill them all—well, we learn more about that.

I’m still not sure about it, really, normally by book 2 you can tell if you are going to like the series or not, right, but Caine is a really good writer to a point that she confuses me into thinking I might like the books better than I do. but I don’t think I’m a fan, or more to the point I don’t think I’m a fan of Claire, and I fear that our relationship could turn bad, depending on how annoying she gets—but then again, there are characters that are way worse. So....is the main characters annoyance, to me, a reason I should stop?

I don’t know, and to be honest I don’t think it will stop me, mostly because she’s a great writer and the story dose pull you in, makes you interested in things that they put themselves threw (‘cause let’s face it, it’s all about chose, like there are a lot of main characters I wouldn’t mind changing places with—doesn’t mean I’ll do what they did. being a hero is overrated anyway)

Oh, and I didn’t notice with the first book that ‘Eve’s diary’ was actually clip notes of the books, though it’s in someone else’s head, it’s still a run threw of the book, and how awesome is that—it also gives you a little bit of closure on things you were wondering about. You know, when books are of a one main character’s head type you are left wonder a little about what’s going on behind closed doors, so to speak. And this part gives you a little of what you need in that area, so you don’t have to wonder so much.

Series

Glass Houses, [this book], Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lords of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, Fade out, Kiss of Death, Ghost town, Bite Club, Last Breath,  Black Dawn,

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