Tabitha Tomala
This series is the start of a nostalgia read for the year. I read Morganville Vampires when it was brand new and fell off around book 7. Let's finish it this time!
Claire Danvers has been accepted to early college in Morganville. And while being the youngest girl at the college wasn’t going to be easy, her dorm situation is downright deadly. When the bullying escalates to dangerous levels, she finds herself off campus looking for a new place to stay. What she finds is an old house with quite the arrangement of roommates and a town with a dark secret.
Readers can expect the relationship trope of a younger girl falling for an older guy, but Glass Houses doesn’t go into much development of it yet. Whether it will progress further in future books remains to be seen, but it is definitely a young adult themed budding romance.
Thankfully the story doesn’t focus on the romance, it instead builds up a dark and treacherous world of vampire politics. Claire has a lot to learn about Morganville if she expects to survive. And being the young protagonist, she steps on quite a few toes and makes risky judgment calls. She will cause mayhem not only for herself but for her new roommates as well.
And Rachel Caine does not hold back on the deranged antagonists. What Claire endures is gut wrenching, yet acceptable by the vampire standards. The level of conflict is more in line with adult reading, even if the main character is younger. There is a great balance between what makes this novel young adult, and what kicks it up a notch for adults also to enjoy.
Glass Houses sets the foundation for The Morganville Vampire series, dropping just enough lore to tempt readers into discovering more about the deadly denizens. Readers who enjoy character development will also see that Claire has quite the growing to do, and the determination to get there.
Originally posted at www.behindthepages.org.
This series is the start of a nostalgia read for the year. I read Morganville Vampires when it was brand new and fell off around book 7. Let's finish it this time!
Claire Danvers has been accepted to early college in Morganville. And while being the youngest girl at the college wasn’t going to be easy, her dorm situation is downright deadly. When the bullying escalates to dangerous levels, she finds herself off campus looking for a new place to stay. What she finds is an old house with quite the arrangement of roommates and a town with a dark secret.
Readers can expect the relationship trope of a younger girl falling for an older guy, but Glass Houses doesn’t go into much development of it yet. Whether it will progress further in future books remains to be seen, but it is definitely a young adult themed budding romance.
Thankfully the story doesn’t focus on the romance, it instead builds up a dark and treacherous world of vampire politics. Claire has a lot to learn about Morganville if she expects to survive. And being the young protagonist, she steps on quite a few toes and makes risky judgment calls. She will cause mayhem not only for herself but for her new roommates as well.
And Rachel Caine does not hold back on the deranged antagonists. What Claire endures is gut wrenching, yet acceptable by the vampire standards. The level of conflict is more in line with adult reading, even if the main character is younger. There is a great balance between what makes this novel young adult, and what kicks it up a notch for adults also to enjoy.
Glass Houses sets the foundation for The Morganville Vampire series, dropping just enough lore to tempt readers into discovering more about the deadly denizens. Readers who enjoy character development will also see that Claire has quite the growing to do, and the determination to get there.
Originally posted at www.behindthepages.org.