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<![CDATA[Carrie
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Carrie
is on page 117 of 244 of
Give Up the Ghost
That was the case here with this book. The beginning felt clunky. I honestly felt that the book should have started on page 7 with the following sentence: "In the two months she'd been at Baird, she made zero friends."
It wasn't until this point that I was actually drawn into the story. All the stuff before that felt, unnecessary, especially with the later references to the psyche class lectures and texts as well as the exchanges between the students. The Prologue, I could take or leave.
Like I said, once I hit the above line, I was hooked. I wanted to keep reading. Sokoloff did a terrific job of building complex characters. She also did a really good job at building suspense and maintaining a certain level of that suspense throughout the book.
Robin, Cain, Lisa, Patrick, Martin and Waverly are well constructed, with believable reactions and personalities. There is something about each one that most people can relate to, and make you care about them and what happens to them.
What does happen to them?
Well, the front cover tells you it's a ghost story. It is a ghost story, but not a typical haunting. This ghost story begins with the ever popular Ouija Board, but not just any board, one of the original boards from 1920, one with some history attached to it.
It starts out as some game for five students to kill some time over the long Thanksgiving weekend, but evolves into something more. What seems like an interesting topic for a psyche paper quickly develops into more than any of them can truly understand or handle.
Beliefs are called into question.
Do these college students have the strength to deal with what they've unleashed?
You'll have to read the book to find out because it is definitely worth the read and I kept imagining how cool of a movie this book would make!!!
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<![CDATA[Carrie
is on page 159 of The Harrowing
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Carrie
is on page 159 of 320 of
The Harrowing
All of the books are best read in order and this is book 4 in the Morganville Vampires Series.
Book 1 was pretty good and each one got progressively better, but this one is the best yet! Rachel Caine has demonstrated her ability to create characters so real that you feel what they do, care about them and want to call them friends. Their banter is so real and believable as well as their reactions to it. She has such clear pictures of all of her characters, that you can't help but feel like a fly on the wall with all of the chaos going on.
I'm so in her thrall that I want to go right on to book 5!
Pick up Glass Houses and fall in love with Eve, Claire, Michael and Shane. Then find how weird it feels when you begin to find yourself caring about the town and some of the vampires in it, even the ones you really don't like, you grow to respect them.
How? Well, that's where Rachel Caine's writing ability comes shining through. She has done so well in crafting the town and all of its people that it's as if you're one of them, if not a fly on the wall.
I would love to see these books made into movies or TV series because they have so much potential!
I found this book to be laugh-out-loud at times and scary at others.
Rachel Caine is a master at character tension.
Claire, Eve, Michael and Shane are so very different, but it's very clear how they became friends. They are strong, well-written characters. I wonder how strong the bonds of their friendships really are! Can't wait to start book 4 because Rachel Caine is also the master of the cliff hanger. One more ending I have yet to see coming!