The Dead Girl's DanceAuthor: Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville Vampires (#2)
Publisher: Penguin Group
How Received: borrowed
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.
I finished this last night, and thank the authors that Kellyn brought in the third one to school today. I might have gone crazier if she hadn't - Rachel Caine left her book at a cliff hanger. Again. x_x
I loved this book much more than I loved the first one. Glass House had to take the time to establish character relationships and such - as is right for a first book in the series, despite how short they are - while this book jumped right into the plot line and fleshed out the characters even more. Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down!
The only thing that is annoying me about Rachel Caine is that she leaves a cliff hanger at the end of every novel. At least summarize it up a bit, please!
Overall Rating: 9/10
Glass House or Twilight?: Twilight is more pro-vampire, while Glass House seems to make most of the vampires evil. Twilight is also a lot more science-fiction than it is fantasy.
Happy reading!
~Nicole
IMO, cliffhangers are overused. I hate them so much that they tend to bias me against reading an author's series. I have a terrible memory and too many books to read as it is, so unless I can pick up all the books in a series at once, I'm unlikely to read a book if I know it has a cliffhanger---otherwise by the time the next book came out I'd have forgotten where the previous one left off.
ReplyDeleteUsually that's how I feel, but if one of my friends recommends the series highly (like this, from She Who Loves Books, or The Wheel of Time, from That Book Boy) I'll read them.
ReplyDeleteI REALLY want to read this series! Cliffhangers bug me, too, if I have to wait a while to get to the sequel. Like with the Bloody Jack books? Sometimes they leave you with crazy cliffhangers, and then I have to wait a year to find out what happens next...
ReplyDeleteI love Bloody Jack! I have to re-read those sometime - those and Scott Westerfeld's books. I just finished the sequel and, guess what? CLIFFHANGER. -.- -fumes-
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