Review: Bite Club

Author: Rachel Caine
Pages: 340
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
Source: Library
Synopsis: After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. 


There's a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Internet: bare- knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against each other-or humans. Tracking the remote signal leads Claire- accompanied by her friends and frenemies-to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville...


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I ♥ Morganville. Not the town because it sounds terrifying to live in but the books. Why? Imagine having a beautiful, perfect dream and then waking up. You're lucky though- the next time you go to sleep the dream continues. That is the Morganville Vampire books to me. I can't help if I'm addicted to them.

Rachel Caine has the best story ideas. I envy how she can always come up with a new heart-pounding action-packed novel with the same characters in the same setting and make it work. That takes major skill; that 10 books in, I don't want to ever stop reading these books. The second I pick up a Morganville book, that's it. I don't do anything except read that book. Any second not reading is wasted.

Bite Club (love the name) is about a dangerous new situation and this time Shane's the one in danger. He's not acting like himself- he's aggressive, dangerous, and withdrawing from Claire. Basically acting like a jerk, but he can't help it. Parts of Bite Club were written in Shane's perspective and I loved it. Shane is a complex guy, he's been through so much. He's scarred for life. I couldn't help but feel terrible for him and root for him.

The other characters were as awesome as ever. They're all such strong friends and work so well together as a team. There was a huge awesome surprise that I found totally welcome. I'm all excited about it. I think those who've read it already will know what I'm talking about. There were little bits of storylines that I think will be important in future novels. I'm really curious about them.

Overall, another great addition to the Morganville series. There's really not that much else to say. 4 stars,

****

Review: Ghost Town

Author: Rachel Caine
Pages: 352
Source: Library
Synopsis (amazon): While developing a new system to maintain Morganville's defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she's able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders.

But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are-even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment- before she forgets how to save Morganville...

Ghost Town is book 9 of the Morganville Vampire series, which ranks very high on my list of top vampire books. I've enjoyed the series ever since I read the first book, Glass Houses. Reading this series is like putting on my favorite shirt and skinny jeans— I love them, am comfortable with them, and wish I could always have it.

*** Beware, spoilers from the previous books ahead!***

Ghost Town is the latest installment of Claire, Shane, Michael, and Eve's life in Morganville. Once again, something is amiss. People— humans and vampires— seem to be forgetting parts of their lives and finding themselves completely confused and disoriented. It's actually scary. What if you woke up one day and didn't know what happened to the world around you? You grew up, made new relationships, lost relationships, and your whole world changed but you can't remember it. Naturally, it creates discord in the tentative peace of Morganville.

Claire immediately suspects it has something to do with the machine that changes people's memories and she realizes she need to turn off the machine. Except she encounters a few problems along the way... 

One of my favourite parts of Ghost Town was reading about some of my favourite characters more, and all their emotions. Claire is so unique as a character; she's smart, and brave while being delicate and small. She stands up for herself but doesn't want to cause too much trouble. She's so real that you can instantly connect to her. In Ghost Town, awesome Claire continues. 

Michael, Eve, Shane and Myrnin are also as lovable as ever. In Ghost Town, we get a better look at their personalities and feelings. This book added so much more depth to already deep characters! 

The plot as always was fun. There were so many plot twists, I was addicted. I sprinted home from school to read this book and those who know me also know I hate to run. 

Ghost Town is highly entertaining, has great plot, and features some of my favourite characters of all time. For that, I give it 4 stars.

****

- P.E.

Teaser Tuesday: Ghost Town

Teaser Tuesday is a meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you need to do is flip to a random page in your book and post two teasers (please no spoilers).

Mine is from Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

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Welcome to Morganville. You'll never want to leave. And even if you do... well, you can't. Sorry about that.


I know it's too many sentences but it's the least spoiler-ish thing I've read so far (though I'm only on Chapter 1).
This series addicts me like some of my favourite TV shows and I recommend that everyone tries it! So what's your Teaser Tuesday?