The plot thickens in Morganville in Midnight Alley, by Rachel Caine, as Claire is forced to choose between keeping her friends safe or running away. So she chooses to accept full protection from Amelie, head vampire and founder of Morganville, which basically means that Claire is her slave. And this time, Amelie’s ulterior motives could get Claire killed.

Despite the warnings from new vampire Michael,  best friend Eve, and boyfriend Shane, Claire literally signs her life over to Amelie and winds up working in a lab with the strange and ill Myrnin, who could snap at any given moment and drain Claire of her life. But she is willing to take the risk to help find a cure that could save all the vampires from this Alzheimer’s-like disease–especially now that freedom fighter Captain Obvious is set to stake Michael and Eve’s brother, Jason, is on the loose. …» more

The Dead Girls’ Dance, the second installment in Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series, is packed with even more action that the first, Glass Houses.  In the second novel in this highly-addictive series, Claire discovers that her troubles in Morganville are only beginning.

After trading the founder’s book for head-vamp Amelie’s protection of her friends, Claire believes her problems are solved–that is, until she faces her biggest challenge yet–Shane’s father, Frank Collins. Jaded and completely twisted by the loss of his wife and daughter, Frank Collins returns to Morganville to wipe out the vampires–and he expects his son to help. However, when punk-vampire Brandon winds up murdered, the vampires use Shane as bait in order to catch his father. …» more

First of all, I must say that I am angry. Today, I visited my friendly Books-A-Million in the hopes of purchasing Carpe Corpus, the sixth book in the Morganville Vampires series. But alas, it was not to be. In fact, none of the bookstores in my area carried it. So I came home from my long, pointless search with a heavy heart and ordered it online, now having to suffer through the three to seven business days until I have it in my greedy little hands. So in the meantime, I will simply review the rest of these awesome books in one of my favorite series.

Glass Houses, the first installment in Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series, is the perfect start to this thrilling set of novels with its original plot line, well-developed characters, and unique portrayal of vampires. Claire Danvers, a 16 year-old super-genius, has graduated from high school early and is more than prepared to head off to MIT. However, her slightly over-protective parents don’t want to see their baby daughter move so far away since she will be two years younger than the other students. So instead of moving her halfway across the country, they settle for the small, safe town of Morganville, Texas, where Claire will attend Texas Plains University. Her parents probably had the right idea…except that Morganville is anything but safe. …» more