It isn’t a criticism, so much as an observation – I’m not, after all, the target audience this book is written for – and I was prepared to go with the flow as I found the storyline sufficiently intriguing. The style and tone of this book did come across as rather young as it is written in Claire’s viewpoint and I did skim the sections where she is obsessing about the boy in her life. Authors such as Juliet Marillier and Trudi Canavan are often parked on the YA bookshop shelves, which doesn’t prevent me being a solid fan of both. However, that doesn’t preclude many books from being an equally enjoyable read for those of us who a lot longer in the tooth – in a completely non-vampire way, of course. This tale is definitely aimed at the YA market. And the biggest secret of all isn’t really a secret, except from Claire: Morganville is run by vampires, and they are hungry for fresh blood… It was bad enough that she got on the wrong side of Monica, the meanest of the school’s mean girls, but now she’s got three new roommates, who all have secrets of their own. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows – one that will spill out into the bright light of day.įor Claire Danvers, high school was hell, but college may be murder. But when the sun goes down, the bad come out. Morganville is a small college town filled with unusual characters. I don't think I will bother.This is yet another urban fantasy vamp tale – but worth a serious look because Rachel Caine is also the author of the very successful and nicely plotted Weather Warden series. This series seems to end at book 8 but I see there are more books. Eve is a got, Michael is amazingly wonderful and Shane has all the charm of a burping, headstrong, handsome 18 year old. Other than her intelligence I can never figure out why.

Claire is very smart and becomes the 'pet' of the queen of the vamps. College kids are supposed to be off limits but of course that's not what happens. Those 3 friends are all dealing with problems but then so is everyone in Morganville due to the patron system of the vampires. Each book take up with events immediately following those of the previous book.Ĭlair goes away to college at 16 and finds Eve, Michael and Shane when she tries flees the campus dorm to avoid being killed. By book 8 she is part Buffy, and a little bit mean. But of course characters change and she does. I liked her from the beginning because she was innocent, extremely intelligent and stubborn. Clair is almost 17-we hear that repeatedly through out all the books. But the mean girls are bad 100% of the time.

Atypical novels in that the vamps are the bad guys 90% of the time. I don't usually feel too old for YA books but their was a lot of teenage angst in all of these books.

The morganville vampires book 1