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

Oct 25, 2010 PurplyCookie rated it it was ok

Shelves: 1st-in-a-series, book-series, horror, 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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Title Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
Author Rachel Caine
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Sep 10, 2011 Lisa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: children-teen-books, vampire, paranormal, fiction

Claire, an above intelligence 16-year-old, is forced by her parents to attend a small junior college close to home instead of going off to a major university. Claire soon finds herself the focus of the dorm bully and decides she needs to find somewhere off campus to live, or die.

Claire soon realizes that living off campus in Morganville can be just as deadly as living on campus. Luckily, she finds three roommates that are willing to risk their own lives to keep Claire safe from the horrors of t ...more

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Mar 17, 2011 Julie *-* rated it really liked it

Shelves: vampires

This was not what I was expecting. I am glad it wasn't. I was expecting your typical *girl finds out about vamps, girl gets turn into vamp, girl learns to deal with new her. It was not that! YAY. I'm starting to enjoy the main characters. Micheal, Claire, Shane and Eve are a great bunch to follow around. :) on to the next. ...more

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Apr 18, 2010 Monique rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya-books, rachel-caine

I finished this book a couple of weeks ago...And to my surprise I loved it so much...I'm a big time vamp buff so I had to at least try it out...finished it within 48 hrs...And moved right on to book two... ...more

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Nov 10, 2010 Kris rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2011

FANTASTIC first book in a young adult series!! super different take on the vamp issue...loved the characters & instantly became addicted. ended in a huge cliff hanger so i'll HAVE to read the next! ...more

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