Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5) in Vamps with Bite

Nov 12, 2013 Lauryn April rated it liked it

3.5 Stars. What made Lord of Misrule really interesting was getting to see Morganville flipped upside-down. In this book Monica is no longer at the top, she's at the bottom and everything is backwards from how it was in the first book - but the town is just as scary, if not more so.

Although all of the Morganville Vampire books are told from Claire's perspective in Lord of Misrule it sometimes felt like Claire was disconnected from the central fight, as if the main character was really Shane or A 3.5 Stars. What made Lord of Misrule really interesting was getting to see Morganville flipped upside-down. In this book Monica is no longer at the top, she's at the bottom and everything is backwards from how it was in the first book - but the town is just as scary, if not more so.

Although all of the Morganville Vampire books are told from Claire's perspective in Lord of Misrule it sometimes felt like Claire was disconnected from the central fight, as if the main character was really Shane or Amelie.

The pace certainly picked back up in this book compared to Feast of Fools, and there wasn't an overwhelming amount of back story like I felt there was in the last book, but there were still annoying inconsistencies. Also this book felt like Claire was in a constant race. It didn't really have a rising action, climax, or falling action. It was just kind of constant action. More than half way through I'd only barely seen the bad guy because Claire did so much running around. I did really enjoy how Claire's relationship with Shane grew, but the overall story didn't feel as together as the other books.

One thing that was a little frustrating with this book was that a good three or four chapters passed in the beginning where we hear nothing from Shane. He's not really gone that long, but Caine spends a lot of time taking you through everything that Claire does and sometimes I wished she would have skipped ahead. It also felt like Claire wasn't as worried about Shane as she was about everyone else. But their relationship does progress in this book with Shane finally saying I love you, and I really enjoyed that.

As for the other characters, I felt like Claire's parents didn't really have a point to being in this book and wondered why they even moved to Morganville in Feast of Fools. It felt like Claire pretty much ignored them and they didn't really do anything to move the plot forward. I did like Oliver in this book. He's been a complex character from the very beginning and it was nice to have him once again (at least kind of) on the good guy's side. And, of course I loved Gramma Day.

Looking at this series as a whole this book felt like filler, but I will still continue on with book six. As usual Lord of Misrule ends in a cliffhanger, and this time it's a big one. (view spoiler) It's really rather heartbreaking, but just the kind of thing to make me need that next book all that much more.

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