READING: Midnight Alley (Morganville Vampires,#3) by Rachel Caine

Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine

Publication Date: October 2nd 2007

Publisher: NAL Jam

Mass Market Paperback, 248 pages

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Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

Morganville Vampires series is just plainly amazing!Whenever I feel that I don't know what to pick to read next or I'm just in a row of picking books I didn't like and need something good to break the bad luck,I just know what to pick next...Cause either way you see it,Rachel Caine managed to create a world full of suspence,so well written and with so good characters,that you can help but get sucked in that world.

Midnight Alley picks up exactly where The Dead Girl's Dance leaves us,with Claire pleadging herself in the service of Amelie,a contract whose consequences Claire will have to deal in this book, from revealing her secret to her friends and boyfriend,to put her life in immediate danger from Amelie's requests.Cause in Morganville everything comes at a price.

In this book we get to know more and more about the vampire structure of this society plus things that explain questionmarks from the previous books and raise a whole more questions in return.

Caine's world is tighlty woven,and from what it seems everything has its meaning that will get explained in future books.I love the way from the moment I start reading those books,I just can't find a reason good enough for me to stop...Whether it happens something crucial or just things progress,the pace of those books is so fast,that grab the reader's interest and keep him hooked and in the edge of the seat until the last page!

Up until now,Midnight Alley is my favorite book in this series,mostly because of the revellations made here about the vampires and the development in Claire's character.

I just can't wait for the next book and to be honest,I really want to see things between Shane and Claire progrees a bit more!I'm loving the way their relationship moves from book to book and I can't wait to see more of them!Plus Michael and Eve are a good addition!

READING:The Dead Girl's Dance (Morganville Vampires,#2)by Rachel Caine

The Dead Girl's Dance by Rachel Caine

Publication date: 2008

Publisher: Allison & Busby

Paperback, 380 pages

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Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Wow!!!This book was plainly amazing!It was as good as the first one and even better at some points!

Again,Rachel Caine delivers a story full of action and twists so well written that is almost impossible to put the book down!The book starts right after the events of the first book and new characters are immediatelly introduced to the reader.

The second book in Morganville Vampires series preserves the same claustrophobic atmosphere as the first one and it's even darker and sexier.We get to know more things about the background of all the main characters which adds up to the story and make them even more likeable.Claire and Shane's relationship slowly gets to another level as well as the one between Michael and Eve.

I can't really say much in this review without repeating myself.All of the elements i liked in the first book are present in this sequel as well and the writing style is equally good!The plot makes you anxious to see what happens next from the first page of this book till the very last.It's like a non stop drive to the end!

Well,this must be the shortest review i have ever written but really,i can't say anything that i haven't already told in my review of Glass Houses!What i can say for sure,is that this sequel is really good and Morganville Vampires slowly becomes one of my favorite series!

READING: Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires #1) by Rachel Caine

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Publication Date: May 26th 2008

Publisher: Allison & Busby

Paperback, 348 pages

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It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows - one that will spill out into the bright light of day.
Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. The popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks on the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. And Claire really doesn't have the right connections - to the undead who run the town.
When Claire heads off campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Hew 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...

OMG!I really didn't expect to like this book so much!Surely Morganville Vampires is a series with a certain hype but i didn't know what to expect of this book,plus,i didn't read any reviews before reading it which turned out to be a really good thing!Having not read i single review i avoided any even minor spoilers and that made me like this book even more because of the many unexpected turns in the plot.Most of the things weren't obvious and i found myself constantly turning the pages to see what happened next.

I liked every single character in this book.Though Claire is the main heroine,all of the surrounding characters are fairly good developed,at least as much as a first POV narration allows.I loved both Shane and Michael so much that at points i couldn't decide who was sexier...Claire is a fantastic character.She is smart,she's self dependent and she doesn't think that everything evolves around her.Granted,she's insecure at times,but who teenager isn't?

And i really enjoyed the sence of companionship this book has.It has been some time since i encountered a company where everyone really cares about each other.

The plot of this book is really good and engaging.It's full of action but not really overstreched scenes where the reader is tired or bored.Rachel Caine knows exactly where to end one scene end begin a new one.The romance is seizling although not the main focus of the story,something i also liked very much.My only complaint is the ending...I understand the need of a cliffhanger ending but not when it's done so obviously deliberatelly.The last chapter felt like it belonged to the next book or that it needed a few more lines at least.Fortunately,i immediatelly started the next book and my impression was that the last chapter was in fact the first one in the next book.I don't know ifi t's just me (and believe me i do like cliffhangers) but i felt that the ending was abrupt just to leave you wondering...

To sum it up,Morganville Vampires is a series any YA fiction fan should read.It's fresh, full of surprises and an utterly engaging read!