Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Nov 30, 2014 Cee rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, young-adult, paranormal, vampires, series-that-are-finished

The Morganville Vampires together with Vampire Academy and House of Night must be the YA vampire series trifecta. The Morganville Vampire series is slightly lesser known than the other two, but still very popular, and published in the high-days of vampire fiction in the 00's.

Claire is an exceptional student, but because her parents consider her too young, she goes to Morganville instead of Harvard or Yale. Here she meets the ultimate homicidal mean girls that have decided to make her life hell, The Morganville Vampires together with Vampire Academy and House of Night must be the YA vampire series trifecta. The Morganville Vampire series is slightly lesser known than the other two, but still very popular, and published in the high-days of vampire fiction in the 00's.

Claire is an exceptional student, but because her parents consider her too young, she goes to Morganville instead of Harvard or Yale. Here she meets the ultimate homicidal mean girls that have decided to make her life hell, and soon she gets mixed up in something even worse.

The beginning of Glass Houses is slightly ridiculous. The resident mean girls are over the top, and Claire often acts like fourteen instead of sixteen. The age level isn't helped by the fact that her parents treat her in an extremely selfish way - who the hell sends their child off to some random crap university with a huge drop-out rate, when the kid could go get an Ivy League education? The first few chapters are extremely juvenile.

I was looking forward to reading a young-adult book set in college, but this was worse than many high school novels. Maybe I just won the social lottery, but I was never secretly pinched or kicked or tripped or cussed at by other students in high school, nor did I do any of those to others. Does that kind of thing actually happen? For me high school was mostly peaceful co-existence, and college is even more laid-back. It took a lot of suspension of disbelief to deal with this childish bullying theme.

Once we meet the gang of Eve, Shane, and Michael, the story gets a lot better. They are all slightly more mature, and have these family dynamics going on which are entertaining, engaging and endearing. Together with Claire we learn more about the truth and rules of Morganville. A lot is still left in the dark in Glass Houses, with plenty of fighting and running away without the reader (and Claire) truly grasping what they're exactly running away from. The atmosphere of dread is strong without there being a clear source.

Glass Houses serves as a decent introduction into the Morganville Vampires series. By the end of it, we have an interesting set-up for the next book, which I'm very much looking forward to. Glass Houses has its issues, especially the beginning, but the story quickly engrossed me. ...more

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May 21, 2010 Chelsea rated it liked it

Shelves: vampires, uf-pnr, ya

Decent series opener. Most of this book is world building; I started up the second novel and it definitely has me hooked.

(Full review later.)

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Apr 29, 2011 ♥ Unaeve ♥ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Beside this one huge thing that irritates me (view spoiler) i liked this book.
It's full of action,there are no boring,dragging parts,it's a page turner(i just love page turner books :P)and the writer obviously knows how to invent and produce a good story.

It is a cliffhanger but it doesn't really mater ,because there are 12 or 13 book already published so no need for cursing and waitin ...more

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Oct 15, 2010 CharleeMoo rated it it was amazing

Shelves: vampire, romance, paranormal, series

This is a really good read. I wouldn't mind living in Morganville, though, I'd have to have a protection bracelet! Yikes!
It starts out with Claire Danvers, a sixteen year old who is already in college. She makes a few enemies with the girls in her dorm and ends up in the Glass House with three other kids.
That's where she learns about the real Morganville, and the vampires.
Ends with a cliffhanger. But it's a great read from cover to cover! ...more

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May 27, 2010 Alyssa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, vampires, january-2011-shifter-love, read-in-2011, 50-vampire-books-in-2011-vampire-l, a-z-titles-2011-vampire-lovers, a-z-characters-2011-vampire-lovers, ghosts, part-of-a-series

I really liked this book. I'm excited to read the rest of the books.

Poor, really smart Claire. She just wanted to go to school and learn something with the added benefit of getting away from her parents. I couldn't believe she ended up in so much trouble. Apparently being smart is a stand out thing at the college in Morganville. That Monica girl is super crazy.

I was soo happy that Claire found some friends to help her and started sticking up for herself.

Can't wait to read more. ...more

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