Claire is working with Myrnin on repairing the computer that keeps the town safe from outsiders, and insiders unable to leave. Preferably without adding a human brain this time, especially as Myrnin seems to want to use hers...She has managed to repair the portal system, but so far things going t...
I'm ashamed by how much I love these books. Like, seriously, I want to douse myself in holy water and have a priest check to make sure I'm not possessed by the vengeful spirit of a Twihard.I LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (in case you didn't get the memo). THEY ARE SOOOOO FANTASTIC...
Spoiler alert: Overall I've really enjoyed reading this series. But this final book is a little disappointing. I think the previous book would have served as the basis to a better conclusion than this one, which was a touch repetitive and at times had me spacing out. Also the love triangle of Jo...
I think I skipped a book's worth of plot to get to this part of the series, but backstory exposition made it easy to figure out what's going on.Two books in one here; I'll just review them together.It feels like the Morganville story is getting back on track with these two books. Rachel Caine is...
First of all, I'm not in the young adult demographic, which definitely skews the way I related to this book. I give it a couple of stars for having vampires in charge of the town, but it loses a few for having an absolute goose as the main character. If you can't deal with a 16 year old girl cons...
This Volume contains books 5-6 from the Morganville Vampire series."Lord of Misrule" in this book Claire has to obey Bishop or everyone she cares about dies. Vampires start walking during daylight, some of them die, and they can't find an explanation for it. Now Claire doesn't know in who to trus...
In Morganville, there is no such thing as a vacation. So, when things have been quiet for a while, it is only natural that something bad happens. Again.One of the biggest things with "Bite Club" was that we got to see the darker parts of Shane. The parts that remind him of his father. The parts t...
Either I wasn't in the mood, or was getting bored by the series. I mean its already twelve books in the series...so far. Finally I got around to reading this again, more than once but stopped reading after a bit. After finishing it I wondered why did I ever think I wouldn't like the series anymor...
This volume contains books number 3-4 from the Morganville Vampire series. 'Midnight Alley'Claire is owned by the founder of the city ( oldest vampire Amelie) so she can keep her friends from becoming meals for the vampires. This does not mean that the problems are over, no she has to work with t...
I love these books. This one took me longer to read but I kind of hit a no read zone for a few months. Now I'm back on top and reading like crazy. In the book Fade Out Ada goes crazy and Claire is in for the worst. If Ada gets shut down Morganville could be in a state of turmoil. Can Claire ...
Love this series so much. This is book 2 of the series and it is every bit as good as the first. ********************************************SPOILERS************************************************I love the idea of a drug that can bring a person back from the dead. I have never read anything ...
I honestly didn't know how to rate it. So... 3,5, perhaps. being a HUGE fan of Morganville Vampires series, I expected something similar in tome and humor and... I don't really know how to explain it, but MORE. Still, I'm really enjoying this series, and I especially appreciate the fact that it's...
Caine, Rachel - Weather Wardens 09.5 Shiny ****Chance, Karen - Dorina Basarab 02.1 in Vino Veritas ***Vincent, Rachel - Shifters 06.5 Hunt ***Saintcrow, Lilith - Monsters ***Elrod, PN - Vampires Prefer Blondes ****Black, Jenna - Morgan Kingsley 05.5 Nine-Tenths of the Law ****McCray, Cheyenne - N...
Wow, it's so bittersweet to think that I have finally finished this series. This was one of the only series that actually kept my attention and made me want to read more. I absolutely loved it. I loved the characters. And it's sad that I won't hear any more about Claire or the gang. This book was...
3.5 Stars.Characters: I did like that Claire seemed like a 16 year old - she could be mature, but she could also be really immature. I did not like how Twilight-y the relationships were - there was a lot of "I'm the guy and I need to protect you" and "my decisions are the right decisions, do what...
What can I say that hasn't been said in the last two books I read (well, four actually). I really love the way they come together, because it feels like I'm only reading three books, when really I just finished six out of the current eleven that are out.So to begin, in Lord of Misrule Bishop is a...
The Morganville Vampires, Volume 3 RATING: 3 stars, almost 3.5 except I was really annoyed in some parts. This book (which is actually two books, "Lord of Misrule" and "Carpe Corpus") neatly wraps up the current story 'arc' in the Morganville vampire series.In book 4 (or if you want to be technic...
This is one of the only series that I have stuck with for so long and have enjoyed so much. I find it really well written and still suspenseful. I can't believe that this was the 13th book in the series. I found the last book to drag on a bit, but this one had me wanting more. It was difficult fo...
This is my favourite vampire series (bar the sookie stackhouse novels) I love all of the characters even Oliver! I often wonder how it would have been if Claire had been with Mike or Myrnin. I need some of those fanged bunny slippers! Claire is a great mc and I love that we get to watch her grow ...
2.5 ish stars. Okay, so this low review might have to do with the fact that I'm also reading Romeo and Juliet, and the two books just cannot compare to each other. The cover? Stunning, and the title intriguing, which is what compelled me to pick up the book from the 'new young adult' shelf at my ...
Myrnin's Tale is a short story in The Morganville Vampires Series by Rachel Caine. Myrnin is my favourite character in this series. I love the handsome, eccentric, wacky, mad scientist with the occasional need to eat his assistants. This short story is Myrnin's story and told from his point of...
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus,...
When Claire Danvers learned that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving freshman would do: She applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but that garlic may come in handy.
Mistaken for a murderer, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is hunted down and killed by her colleagues. Reborn as a Djinn, she senses something sinister entering earth's atmosphere-something that makes tomorrow's forecast look deadly.
Less than a year ago, Joanne Baldwin was an agent for one of the most powerful organizations in the world, entrusted with the safety of millions of lives on a daily basis. Now she's a scantily clad "weather girl" for a Ft. Lauderdale television station. After losing her job as a Weather Warden (...
Claire Danvers has her share of challenges---like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at...
Lucia and Jazz have finally succeeded in getting Ben, Jazz’s old partner, out of jail where he has been wrongfully imprisoned and his life threatened for years. It’s a difficult time to celebrate though, as the death threat still looms over Jazz, confining her to the office.But the battle between...
Not at all. He cast her glances occasionally, but he seemed to understand that Bryn wanted silence more than comfort. She did like that about him; he wasn’t afraid to just let her think, and having him there soothed the constant roil of terror inside her. Except that he ca...
"You're not anything of mine. You knew," she said, "and you didn't care." Kim looked shocked for a flash of a second, and then she bared her teeth in a white, feral grin. "Yeah? Well, you know what else I don't care about? Whether Shane was in that building or not. I hope he's dead. I hope he die...
Pain had come back—and come back way too fast for any kind of sanity—and she shuddered all over, unable to move now, pinned under the weight of the agony. She felt someone taking her under the shoulders and dragging her. Jane’s people, maybe. She no longer knew, or cared. ...
Mayor Morrell said, “there are now at least twenty vampires missing. All just disappeared in the course of their normal activities, and most vanished during the day.” He stood in my office, looking exhausted and worried, as well he should; I had made it clear that sleep was a luxury none of us co...
Or even Myrnin. Or even Oliver. This was not comforting. I know, my idea, and it was a good one, but being surrounded by fangs when my body was still shuddering off the effects of … what had happened … wasn’t a personal best time ever. I’d briskly introduced myself to the female vamp who seemed t...
First, pick a fight – a loud one, loud enough to attract the attention of the guards. Next, have a fight, the more real, the better. (And trust me, Eve can throw a punch when she feels like it. Girl knows how to power out from the shoulder.) Last, score yourself a bloody head wound, self-inflicte...
They were all exhausted and confused, drenched with rank sweat, and though they were allowed to strip away their armor and were given food and water, the bare room offered no other comforts but wooden chairs. They had a watchful guard who, when Jess posed a question to Glain, snapped, “Quiet. No ...
Virtually all the glass had been shattered; it covered the floor in a deadly glitter. Tables had been overturned and floor in a deadly glitter. Tables had been overturned and splintered. Books had been ripped to shreds, with the leather and cloth covers gutted and empty, tossed on piles of trash....
So. They know where I am. It could have been the Wardens; it could have been the faceless enemy that Scott Sands had so feared. Whoever it might be, they were coming for me, and coming fast. And I welcomed the opportunity for an open, vicious fight. I opened the throttle on the Victory and bent l...
Living in Morganville, Texas, is all that and a take-out bag of worse. I should know. My name is Shane Collins, and I was born here, left here, came back here—none of which I had much choice about. So, for you fortunate ones who’ve never set foot in this place, here’s the ...
In fact, it was very quiet in Morganville, despite Claire’s fears. Travis Lowe and Joe Hess dropped by early the next morning to deliver the no-news-is-good-news party line to Eve and the house in general; they were polite and kind, and generally seemed like OK guys for cops, but they made Claire...
Not good dreams. Why couldn’t my out-of-body experiences take me to a nice spa, with David giving me oil massages? Why did my brain have to punish me? I was fairly sure that I really didn’t deserve it, at least not on a regular basis. Unsettled by the nightmares, I kicked Imara out of the driver’...
. . better. Calmer. Steadier. I shouldn’t have, not at all. I was operating on threads, and yet suddenly I felt assured, in control, and powerful. The containment was leaking. Leaking badly. I was starting to turn around again, and I needed to do what I’d come to do before that happened. I wasn’t...
Claire stood at the windows of the Glass House and watched the flames paint the glass a dull, flickering orange. She could always see the stars out here in the Middle of Nowhere, Texas—but not tonight. Tonight, there was— “You’re thinking it’s the end of the world,” a cool, quiet voice said behin...
the morning. For a precious few seconds when Claire woke up, nothing was wrong, nothing at all. Her body hummed with energy, and the birds were singing outside, and the sun burned in warm stripes across her bed. She squinted at the alarm clock. Seven thirty. Time to get up if she intended to make...
I was defiant, I was gawky, I was just out of adolescence, and she thought I was the most dangerous thing she’d ever seen. “This is a mistake,” said the old man sitting next to her. He had fine white hair, a barrel chest, fair skin with red blotches that spoke of a fondness for the whiskey barrel...
A few girls were in the lobby with books propped up on tables; the TV was running, but nobody was watching it. Nobody looked at her as she walked by. She went to the glassed-in attendant booth, and the student assistant sitting inside looked up from her magazine, saw her bruises, and made a silen...
Dream or not, I was more than happy enough to hold on to it; I woke up cradled in warm arms, against a firmly muscled male chest, and smiled and cuddled closer and refused to open my eyes and find out that I’d imagined the whole thing. I felt a hand smooth my hair, then to...
Of course, my bridesmaids were bound to be pretty tough chicks. I couldn’t really be sure there wouldn’t be guns. ‘‘You know,’’ said my best friend, Cherise, staring thoughtfully into the mirror and smoothing her hands down the clinging lines of her dress, ‘‘there’s a math formula for wedding dre...
It looks like the skeletal remains of something large that once rolled across the earth scooping up screaming victims in its buckety jaws. Or at least, it looked like that to me, but I naturally have a pretty macabre imagination. “Wow,” I said, looking up at the outlines of the black girders agai...
It’s a great deal like being a Djinn, in certain ways; there is momentum, power, a sense of barely controlled ferocity raging beneath the surface. A connection to all things—to the wind battering and caressing you by turns; to the ground beneath you, coated in a layer of man-made surface that nev...
Well, thank God this is about to be over,I thought as I drove—well, blew—past the sign that marked the Westchester, Connecticut, city limits. Traffic sucked, not surprisingly; rush hour was still in full swing, and I had to moderate my impatience and ride the brake while I watched for my exit.Cal...