Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1) in Vampire Lovers!

Oct 25, 2010 PurplyCookie rated it it was ok

Shelves: book-series, horror, 1st-in-a-series, young-adult, vampire

College should be an exciting time, but for brainy 16-year-old Claire Danvers that's too mild a word. Due to advanced placement, Claire can start college early, but her parents refuse to allow her to go to the distant Ivy League school of her dreams. She goes to Texas Prairie University where she is tormented by the popular girls—but that's the least of her worries.

After innocently making a bad impression with the reigning Queen Bee of Cruel, overnight Claire turned from simply unpopular to wal College should be an exciting time, but for brainy 16-year-old Claire Danvers that's too mild a word. Due to advanced placement, Claire can start college early, but her parents refuse to allow her to go to the distant Ivy League school of her dreams. She goes to Texas Prairie University where she is tormented by the popular girls—but that's the least of her worries.

After innocently making a bad impression with the reigning Queen Bee of Cruel, overnight Claire turned from simply unpopular to walking punching bag. Claire decides to ditch her on-campus lodgings in favor of an off-campus abode hoping the old 'out of sight, out of mind' adage will do the trick. Even though she isn't exactly crossing her fingers.

As luck will have it, Claire manages to stumble across a listing for the Glass House: occupied by Michael Glass (owner and local man of mystery), Eve (bubbly goth girl), and Shane (slacker hottie who likes x-box)--all of whom have secrets galore. In "Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)", Claire discovers her sleepy college town is actually controlled by vampires and that none of her roommates (Claire included) are currently under the protection of a vampire--effectively branding them all as fair game. Suddenly Claire's got a lot more to worry about than just midterms.

"Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)" had strengths and weaknesses. The most interesting thing about this book is the way Caine set up the vampire/human relationship structure in the city of Morganville. The type of society she has set up is pretty neat. But when a clique of psychotic popular girls is decidedly scarier and far more vicious than the vampires controlling the city, something doesn't seem right. In this first installment of a series, the vampires were unfortunately very much one dimensional, and aside from Amelie (she seems less interested in bloody deaths and widespread property damage and more interested in maintaining power and protecting her assets, a trait that no other vampire in the novel seemed to exhibit), uninteresting. The plot reads like a cross between Mean Girls and a bad horror flick. The book ends with a cliffhanger, but I just don't care enough to pick up the next installment to see what happens.

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Book Details:

Title Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
Author Rachel Caine
Reviewed By Purplycookie ...more

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Dec 30, 2009 Marcella rated it it was amazing

Oh my good i did not want to put the book down i mean i loved it it all felt like i was ther and when i found out Olivir was a vamp i freaked. I took me like two day to read

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